This is a thread compiling all of the bad takes from people (many on the left) downplaying the Jan. 6 insurrection that was part of Trump's plan to overturn the election.
Hasan Piker defends China's invasion and annexation of Tibet, and defends China's repression and destruction of Tibet's culture. Hasan compares pre-annexation Tibet to the South during the Civil War.
Jimmy Dore says that Putin isn't the bad guy and that he's acting rationally, that the invasion was provoked by NATO and the West, Russia wants peace but Ukraine and NATO don't, and that Ukraine has killed 15,000 people in the Donbas because they identified more with Russia.
I hardly ever do Bill Maher, I don't count him as the "post-left", but rather a cranky old reactionary, but I watched because I like Jim Gaffigan, and this take is just heartless.
Cenk Uygur says his purpose in running for president is to get to 20-25% in the polls, at which point he believes the pressure will be enough for Biden to drop out, and presumably other candidates will run instead.
He describes this plan as "realistic".
Bill Maher wants to acknowledge the "big other side" of the writer's strike, and while he says they're getting "screwed a little bit by the streamers", a lot of their demands are "kooky".
"They kinda believe that you're owed a living as a writer, and you're not".
Hasan Piker explains Taiwan as if the Confederacy ruled America, the Union took it over, but Texas (Taiwan) still remained a Confederate state, and that the world still gives them weapons to use as a stronghold against the Union.
Susan Sarandon retweeted a video, posted by Kim Dotcom, where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. explains to Jordan Peterson that Ukraine "provoked" Russia into invading Ukraine.
Ana Kasparian says that San Francisco is "terrifying" and that you'll get robbed and your car broken into if you go there.
She then says that Los Angeles spent $13 billion on giving crackpipes to people on Skid Row, paid for by California's "incredibly high taxes".
Every time Norman Finkelstein trends, usually for debating some moron (this time it's Destiny), he trends and people post clips of him dominating the debate.
People forget Finkelstein is racist and transphobic, and how he supports Russia invading Ukraine.
Norman Finkelstein calls Mehdi Hasan a "low-life", "sewer rat", "you woke", and "woke avenger" over his interview with Matt Taibbi, and says Taibbi is "such a nice guy", "principled and decent", and laments that Taibbi didn't call Hasan a "sack of shit" and "sewer rat".
Russell Brand was starring in movies 10 years ago. Now he's doing promos for gold and silver investments on Peter Thiel's Rumble site. He's fallen very far.
George Galloway says that Russell Brand, Tucker Carlson, RFK Jr., and Lauren Boebert are/will be framed for sexual assault by the establishment for criticizing the COVID vaccine and Ukraine, and then says Jan. 6 wasn't an insurrection and implies a conspiracy behind it.
A bad Hasan Piker take about Russia's war in Ukraine, where he calls Ukraine bombing a bridge connecting Crimea to mainland Russia that brought Russian weapons a "war crime", and compares it to Russia deliberately targeting Ukrainian civilian infrastructure.
Ana Kasparian praises Ron DeSantis and Florida for passing an anti-squatter bill, and criticizes New York and California for "sitting on their asses and doing nothing about it".
She undercuts the premise when she says "We don't know how widespread squatting really is".
you probably dont know this if you dont consume conservative media but theyre really hyped up on "squatters" as an election issue right now for some reason
Jackson Hinkle understands warfare, because "I've played enough Call Of Duty".
"Call Of Duty does abide by international law, the Israeli military, the U.S. military do not."
If PragerU is endorsing you, that means you're doing something wrong.
Now there's a possibility of her videos being shown as educational materials in Florida schools.
These people went on Tucker Carlson: Glenn Greenwald, Aaron Maté, Max Blumenthal, Michael Tracey, Russell Brand, Dennis Kucinich, Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Oliver Stone, Matt Taibbi, Roger Waters, Lee Fang, Tara Reade, Jimmy Dore, Cornel West, Ro Khanna, Krystal Ball.
Bellingcat does great investigative work, and some of that work has gone against the narratives set by various ghouls. Right now they really seem to be pissing off Glenn Greenwald, Elon Musk, and The Grayzone.
Ana Kasparian, on Patrick Bet-David's PBD podcast, is complaining about being called a "birthing person" again, and this time she compares it to the n-word.
Hasan Piker describes the War In Donbas as
1. Having started in 2004.
2. Calls the war "mass shelling on both sides" instead of Ukraine responding to Russia seizing territory.
3. Says it was "another instance of proxy war, 100%".
Chapo Trap House's Will Menaker claims that "the liberals" secretly want to deport Muslim Americans, and they want Trump to do that for them. He says they want Trump to be in office because it can be used as a threat to discipline minorities.
I wish there could be a Community Notes for Matt Taibbi that says "News outlets are not doing stories on the Twitter Files because this story is bullshit."
Ana Kasparian is actually the voice of reason, criticizing Cenk Uygur's rationale for running for president.
"I really fail to understand how any potential Democratic candidate would see your run as a sign that they need to enter the race, I really do, I don't see it."
I went out to Columbia to share some thoughts with you guys on the events that took place this week. Then this weird, hairy man started following me around. I thought I had lost him, but he came back to stalk me 25 minutes later and then wouldn’t leave me alone!
Krystal Ball on the Maui wildfires: "I can't help but think, you know, if this happened to some part of the country that Joe Biden had more connection to, cared more about, there would be a totally different response from him."
Jimmy Dore: "Joe Biden is a bigger fascist than Donald Trump, and I'll debate anybody on that. That's just a fact." "He's a worse President than Donald Trump. And again, by any metric he is worse."
"They couldn't discredit [John F.] Kennedy like that, so they just killed him."
Cornel West did Gavin McInnes's show twice, after McInnes started the Proud Boys, and didn't call him a fascist. So I don't think Cornel West is a good arbiter of who is or isn't a fascist.
Jimmy Dore is haranguing Cornel West over vaccines (which he calls "forced medical experiments") and lockdowns, which Dore thinks is the biggest issue (and makes a transphobic comment) and West is not taking his bait.
This video is unbelievably cringe.
Two years ago Glenn Greenwald retweeted a Stonetoss comic calling Ukrainians nazis.
And now all of the other people in his circle regularly retweet similar far-right accounts like Censored Men, Jake Shields, and Anastasia Maria Loupis. This shit just keeps getting worse.
Jimmy Dore: "He [Putin] didn't invade to start a war, Putin invaded to end a war. And I don't--and I totally support that, that's what he shoulda did, because they woulda kept killing people until he did that."
"Putin is not the aggressor, the aggressor is NATO."
The following people paid for Twitter Blue: Glenn Greenwald, Aaron Maté, Max Blumenthal, Michael Tracey, Briahna Joy Gray, Matthew Stoller, Nina Turner, Cenk Uygur, Tulsi Gabbard, Matt Orfalea, Anya Parampil, Caitlin Johnstone, Sabby Sabs, Aimee Terese, Lee Camp, George Galloway.
Glenn Greenwald touts Vivek Ramaswamy's opposition to U.S. foreign policy.
No mention of Ramaswamy wanting to send the military to the Mexican border and into Mexico to go after cartels. Somehow that doesn't count as aggressive foreign policy.
Cenk Uygur: “For the first time, today, I’m considering RFK Jr.”
“Trump, I would never support in a million years, [and] you’re never going to get anything but corruption from Joe Biden.”
“RFK’s right to be concerned about Biden being a threat to democracy… Biden did support…
Useful Idiots guest John Mearsheimer tells Aaron Maté and Katie Halper that Russia has no intention of "conquering" any other country, or western Ukraine, and Putin only wants the ethnic Russian parts of eastern Ukraine to annex to Russia, and only wants part of Kyiv.
Destiny's impression of Alex Jones is pretty funny. I think at this point Destiny knows why this debate is happening and he's beginning to lean into it.
Briahna Joy Gray: "Progressives of color, like Elon Musk and Ilhan Omar etc."
Obviously she meant to say another Squad member, and I'm not sure how Elon Musk came out of her mouth in that sentence, but LOL at mentioning Elon Musk as a progressive of color.
Seymour Hersh, in the last decade, claimed that Bin Laden didn't do 9/11, that Assad didn't use chemical weapons on his own citizens, and that Seth Rich leaked DNC info to Wikileaks. He's gone off the rails and there's no reason to believe anything he says lately.
So Rumble, owned by far-right figure Chris Pavlovski and funded by far-right billionaire Peter Thiel, now owns Callin. Meaning that Aaron Maté, Katie Halper, Michael Tracey, David Sirota, Briahna Joy Gray, Ben Burgis, and Sabby Sabs now work for Peter Thiel.
I think he means we end up with David Sacks running Twitter, and the only difference between Musk and Sacks is that Sacks will reply constantly to Aaron Maté and Glenn Greenwald instead of The Quartering and Catturd.
Virgil Texas's arc: from doing alt-right comedy with Sam Hyde, to doing a parody pundit podcast with Felix Biederman, to leftist comedy podcast Chapo, to exile after being accused of grooming, to Catholic magazine.
The source image for this poster is a woman in Tblisi, Georgia, protesting against Russian-backed actions that would stifle dissent in Georgia.
CODEPINK has been against any support for Ukraine against Russia, and co-opting this from a cause they oppose is totally shameless.
Briahna Joy Gray repeats the lie that people in Maui are only getting $700, compared to $24 billion for Ukraine.
She highlights "bipartisan" opposition to Biden on this, showing posts from Rob Schneider "on the right" and Tara Reade "on the left".
Jackson Hinkle calls the Thai workers who were captured by Hamas, fat and ugly.
"Ugly-ass Thai men"
"They got the belly, they look like they've had one too many Big Macs, they've got these like gross little, you know, like uh Thai moustaches."
Chapo Trap House on Jack Teixeira: "I support him, fuck Bellingcat, fuck those snitches at the New York Times. None of this intelligence he leaked is gonna hurt anyone. It doesn't matter, who gives a shit."
This idea that Trump somehow isn't part of the establishment is absurd. He's rich and comes from a rich family, has been a pop culture figure for decades, including a hit show, and was PRESIDENT. He passed a massive tax cut for the rich.
Briahna Joy Gray laments the criticism Ice Cube receives, and claims that it's because he criticizes the Democratic Party.
Definitely couldn't be because he's an anti-Semitic anti-vaxxer who hangs out with Tucker Carlson and RFK Jr.
When Grim says "Let's say it's a solid case, let's say you can actually get a conviction", he makes it seem like an uphill battle. Federal prosecutors have a 99.6% conviction rate.
For anyone who thinks Jackson Hinkle is purely a pro-Palestine activist, here's what he's really trying to do: use it as a vessel to push Russian propaganda.
Briahna Joy Gray claims that the reason America supports Ukraine and Israel is because America is "threatened by socialism".
Also we've been in a Cold War with Russia for "almost 100 years". I didn't know that!
Reporter/conspiracy theorist Seymour Hersh wrote a Substack article based on a single anonymous source claiming that the U.S. bombed the Nord Stream pipeline. Within less than a day, it's now being promoted by Aaron Maté on Tucker Carlson.
Good article about the "horseshoe theory" people saying positive things about RFK Jr. Mentioned/referenced are Jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald, Max Blumenthal, Aaron Maté, Briahna Joy Gray, and Krystal Ball.