Authored by Matt Taibbi via TK News,
Sitting in a hotel bar in San Francisco, going through what’s become a nightly “remembering to eat” ritual. As readers here know, this has been a crazy month, during which time I lost track of a lot of things. I’ve been an absentee father during the holidays, which is contemptible, and also remiss when it comes to responsibilities to subscribers to this site, omitting to even take time to explain basic things, which I’ll try to do now.
Once again today we did not publish the written America This Week, which frankly will have to stay on hold for at least a little while longer. Also once again, I’ve abused the patience of podcast partner Walter Kirn, who’s been a great friend during this time and deserves better. We will do another makeup episode early next week, and I’ll announce the details as soon as I can.
The reason for all this of course is the Twitter Files story. This last week saw the FBI describe Lee Fang, Michael Shellenberger and me as “conspiracy theorists” whose “sole aim” is to discredit the agency. That statement will look ironic soon, as we spent much of this week learning about other agencies and organizations that can now also be discredited thanks to these files. Selfishly I may release some of that information in the morning, to be done with it so I can be fully-present Dad on the actual holiday.
A group of us spent the last weeks reading thousands of documents. For me a lot of that time was spent learning how Twitter functioned, specifically its relationships with government. How weird is modern-day America? Not long ago, CIA veterans tell me, the information above the “tearline” of a U.S. government intelligence cable would include the station of origin and any other CIA offices copied on the report.
I spent much of today looking at exactly similar documents, seemingly written by the same people, except the “offices” copied at the top of their reports weren’t other agency stations, but Twitter’s Silicon Valley colleagues: Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, LinkedIn, even Wikipedia. It turns out these are the new principal intelligence outposts of the American empire. A subplot is these companies seem not to have had much choice in being made key parts of a global surveillance and information control apparatus, although evidence suggests their Quislingian executives were mostly all thrilled to be absorbed. Details on those “Other Government Agencies” soon, probably tomorrow.
One happy-ish thought at month’s end:
Sometime in the last decade, many people — I was one — began to feel robbed of their sense of normalcy by something we couldn’t define. Increasingly glued to our phones, we saw that the version of the world that was spat out at us from them seemed distorted. The public’s reactions to various news events seemed off-kilter, being either way too intense, not intense enough, or simply unbelievable. You’d read that seemingly everyone in the world was in agreement that a certain thing was true, except it seemed ridiculous to you, which put you in an awkward place with friends, family, others. Should you say something? Are you the crazy one?
I can’t have been the only person to have struggled psychologically during this time. This is why these Twitter files have been such a balm. This is the reality they stole from us! It’s repulsive, horrifying, and dystopian, a gruesome history of a world run by anti-people, but I’ll take it any day over the vile and insulting facsimile of truth they’ve been selling. Personally, once I saw that these lurid files could be used as a road map back to something like reality — I wasn’t sure until this week — I relaxed for the first time in probably seven or eight years.
Something tells me the coming year is going to be a better one. Happy Holidays, everyone. Enjoy your loved ones, ignore the rest, and see you all again soon.
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anti-people with names and addresses.
Who will all disappear from Overton’s window and fade into obscurity just like Eric Holder, Lois Lerner, Peter Strzok, Lisa page and all of the string pullers we’ve never heard of.
I get your point, and second your emotion, I just don’t see any lamp posts out there.
I get your point, and second your emotion. I made the statement as almost a lament: “They have names & addresses so why are we forever left doing nothing.” kind of thing, rather than a call to torches and pitchforks.
Still, I would like all the names in a nice searchable database for hopium-based future reference.
Amen and Amen.
Where the hell did all of those 4chan cats go?
How hard could it be to compile a “starter” set?
They may or may not have been part of the whole “Q” set up, but tracking down that headcase Shia LaBeouf’s flag was fucking classic, was it not?
Or will there be any moment where there is a discernnable sense that any kind of public disclosure has actually reached the nation as a whole. So , a real meaningful disclosure ? No . Vindication ? No .Frustration ? Yes .
“…road map back to something like reality…”
WW3
People reported that Twitter was a CIA asset years ago, along with Facebook and other social media. When the plandemic came, it became obvious that they were. But Kudos to Matt, better late than never. Like most journalists, he is not as smart as he thinks he is. But then again, thinking skills have not been taught in this country for a long time.
The development of one’s intuition seems to be the reason for living life after life. That being so we should expect to see widely different abilities. Because, perhaps, yours is better developed making what you apprehend seem easy and self-evident to you, maybe give others some slack if it seems they are on the same track you are but a little behind. There are plenty of people in the world who seem not to be trying at all and it is they who deserve a kick in ass to get them in gear or the hell out the way.
Point taken. Thanks for caring.
Good stuff Bigfoot , I entertain a kind of Jungian view of intuition whereby it seems like either some ability to access your own unconscious mind or perhaps even more out there some kind of collective consciousness , or God mind . Either way its like accessing a higher level of intelligence and or wisdom than I personally possess at a strictly conscious level . You’ll blurt out something that seems too far out there even to yourself, and wish you hadn’t ,only to later find yourself to have been spot on .
For example ,its been at least three years since I just up and blurted out that I thought we were essentially living inside a psyop if we didn’t know better . This business of late with Twitter , what we all suspected of an operation mockingbird scenario operating couldn’t be any more true .We ARE the subjects of an ongoing psyop if we dont know any better , as crazy as that sounds .Perhaps it is just a byproduct of my advancing age whereby the old adage ” Ive forgotten more than you’ll ever know “might be just as good an explanation
Intuition and all of it’s forms are a wisdom God blesses us with. I dreamt in 2014 that Australia was run by a Communistic puppet Government. I didn’t think much of it until 2020. The more I looked into it. The world is full of Puppet Governments. Lots of people have deducted and use the term puppet government and that Joe Biden is a puppet president without having an intuitive insight or dream. You were also 100% right in your talk of us living in a Psyop. In my religion we call we you said the Golden Tongue Wisdom. The golden tongue Wisdom, intuition, dreams, and deja vu are all ways we can experience the holy spirit.
Get out of the left lane, you’re blocking traffic.
My understanding is NSA was first and then with DHS the rest of them sink their hooks in, assuming they were not fronts from the start. It’s all incestuous anyways.
I’ve already moved on from the Twitter files. I’m not a fan of slowly rolling out information after it’s gone through “journalist” gatekeepers. Either dump the information and let people read it or stop wasting our time. Elon’s Twitter files are no more revealing than any CIA/FBI files. I have zero interest in Bari Weiss’ and the Intercept’s Lee Fang’s self-promotion. Maybe I’ll pay attention again when Elon outs Twitter as Operation Mockingbird…
I think he just did.
I mean, in the absence of the Smith-Mundt Act, a legitimate DOJ, or even the rudiments of the Rule of Law, it hardly matters much and anyone who understands where the country is knew that this was going on.
Still, maybe some fraction of normies will accept the dose of reality required to wake the fuck up to the fact that this is a failed former nation ruled, not by law, but by power drawn from the utter inertness of the apathetic and retarded masses.
Or not.
I get your point though. 40 years ago these would have been earth-shattering revelations.
Now, meh. It’s literally SOP.
Maybe that last part is yet another method within their madness . That we are so fatigued of outrage that it no longer makes our hair stand up is yet another way of turning the temp up more on that pot of water with the frog in in it without the frog jumping out ?
I’m definitely one who lately has only seen reality in the rear view mirror. It’s gotten so weird out there that my general stance is that if I can’t believe something is true, it probably is. I’m hoping you are right about next year being better. And I do admire your optimism.
A thought problem:
Eliminate Anyone/Everyone who is part of the problem IYHO,…up to the point of bankers and world leaders, CEO’s & media figures, politicians, ANYONE ya care to name. Feel ‘Free’ to add “the 5, or 13 families that rule the world”, the masons, the illuminati, the jews, (“who say they are, but are not”), Etc., ad infinitum…Fill in the blanks to suit.
It is YOUR thought problem, but i’m sure there is much commonality.
By MANY accounts, ONE of “the worst president(s) ever”, (some stiff competition) Said:
“Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
― Woodrow Wilson
And shit was ‘wonky’ Waaaay before that. It stretches back to some Tower Somewhere, and well before.
Maybe https://www.history.com/news/why-does-the-leaning-tower-of-pisa-lean
History not my thing.
What ‘LOGICAL’ conclusion can one reach?
NOT gonna quibble about the ‘Actual’ Season/Date…
Happy Birthday Jesus.
Unfortunately this panopticon also known as the USSA is the root of all evil.And all the Twatter files ,name dropping etc is all for nothing.
That was probably Satan.
False optimism pisses me off.
Merry Christmas!
That’ll be just fine, Mary. The reason I’m so jolly is I know where ALL you naughty bitches live! Guess what I’ve got in my sack for YOU!
I don’t believe in Santa, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, etc. and yet they seem more credible than the FBI, DOJ, CIA, FEMA, DHS, etc. I’m resigned to the fact that none of the criminals responsible for this treasonous activity will ever face justice for any of their crimes…I’m starting to believe in extralegal justice elves however.
At least Santa and the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, etc., weren’t out to do harm to US … up to and including killing us if they have to — just because they can …
The FauciFlu proved this … what with the fake PCR tests and the fake ‘cases’ and, then, the ‘safe and effective’ jabs that have taken hundreds of thousands of lives just in the United States.
Even with the ability to falsify anything and build consensus they still cannot sell their lies. Now with the unmasking their future should be more precarious as their difficulty justifying their existence wanes with the trust they have squandered.
They lie even when they dont have to.
They lie … because they can … it’s what they do …
The twitter releases are boring and there is nothing which surprises anyone who has paid attention. They have been carefully edited and managed.
Telling you what they have done is part of the process of control.
Five years after killing JFK the same people who killed him made documentaries and ran them on TV telling the public JFK was the victim of a conspiracy.
When their crimes are revealed and there are no consequences for them they gain more power. Secretly the majority of the public is impressed by the criminality, the brazen way they have behaved and that they got away with it. If you do nothing you have consented to their agenda. And your consent is critical to their success.
Ever noticed how many women are drawn to stories about serial killers and violent crime? When you witness a blatant and bold criminal act people are secretly impressed. Crimes of violence also have a subconscious erotic effect. I have spoken to many women who claimed the series about Dahmer was sexually stimulating.
We seem to believe that revealing the facts will bring their conspiracies to an end. Revealing the “truth” does not threaten them. It makes them stronger.