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Michael Tracey

3 years

ANNOUNCEMENT! I have officially joined the land of Substack. It was probably inevitable. But I'm very excited about the opportunities the platform affords. And most of all, looking forward to making insufferable people's heads explode

Officially decamping to Substack-land

An introduction

www.mtracey.net

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Michael Tracey

@mtracey

3 years

Every time I walk into a restaurant with my mask affixed for 30 seconds before being seated, then spend 45 minutes unmasked eating and drinking, and then affix my mask again for 30 seconds while leaving, I give thanks for how many thousands of lives this practice has surely saved

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Michael Tracey

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3 years

Downtown DC is essentially under military occupation and nobody in our bold, adversarial watchdog media apparently finds this odd

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Michael Tracey

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3 years

Key difference between Dem and GOP claims of election fraud: Dem claims get amplified eagerly by every organ of mainstream establishment opinion (see 2016). Conversely, GOP claims are subject to a barrage of disclaimers and censorship declaring them authoritatively to be false

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Michael Tracey

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3 years

Purging the sitting President from his primary communications platform is absolute authoritarian lunacy

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Michael Tracey

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2 months

Imagine saying this to a manual laborer when your job is to sit around chatting about politics

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Ben Shapiro: "No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old. Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem."

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Michael Tracey

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Lead sponsor of the TikTok bill, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) admits the real reason they're rushing to ban TikTok -- because it's "becoming the dominant news platform for Americans under 30" and the US government doesn't control it like other platforms

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Michael Tracey

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3 years

Cop shoots an unarmed woman point-blank in the throat but we're all supposed to be sending Thoughts & Prayers to traumatized Members of Congress whose workday was interrupted for a couple hours

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Michael Tracey

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1 year

The former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett just confirmed what any rational observer could've surmised: Russia and Ukraine reached a preliminary agreement during the early phase of the war — "Both sides very much wanted a ceasefire," Bennett said — but the US "blocked it"

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Michael Tracey

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1 year

Twitter policy in 2015, before media/activists lobbied for the company to become a giant online daycare center: No direct threats of violence. Beyond that, Twitter doesn't mediate disputes between users, or remove "offensive" content. If you feel a law was broken, contact police

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Michael Tracey

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2 years

Italy: holds democratic election Pundits: this is a frightening blow to democracy

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Michael Tracey

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2 years

Ukraine president just blamed the US for stoking "panic" about an allegedly imminent Russian invasion, and insists that the situation today is basically the same as a year ago. Odd that US is hyping an invasion threat more than the actual country that would supposedly be invaded

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Michael Tracey

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3 years

The new corporate authoritarian liberal-left monoculture is going to be absolutely ruthless -- and in 12 days it is merging with the state. This only the beginning

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Michael Tracey

@mtracey

3 years

You cannot create an "alternative" to Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Twitter at this point, they are collectively more powerful than most if not all nation states

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Michael Tracey

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2 years

It's pretty weird that the leaders of France, UK, Canada, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, and New Zealand all felt they had to immediately weigh in on a US Supreme Court decision that has zero effect on them

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Michael Tracey

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5 years

2014 is not ancient history. Can someone please explain why this was not portrayed at the time as a morally abominable statement?

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Michael Tracey

@mtracey

5 months

Never seen any of these newly released Thai hostages on any of the posters plastered everywhere

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Michael Tracey

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4 months

This "NJ woman" moved to Israel, joined the military, worked in the IDF social media unit, and was living on a soldier commune. But to the casual headline reader, just an unsuspecting "NJ woman"

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Michael Tracey

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2 years

Maybe I'm nuts but I can't get over how the President announced we're all on the verge of Armageddon and everyone just proceeds basically as normal

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Michael Tracey

@mtracey

3 years

I knew it would be widely denied that prominent liberals floated an Electoral College coup in 2016, which is why I contemporaneously saved a bunch of examples

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Michael Tracey

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3 years

To me the wildest story of 2020 is still that the most widespread and destructive riots in at least 50 years occurred and it basically got covered up

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Michael Tracey

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3 years

Sooooo are we all just going to forget now that Washington, DC was put under military occupation based on a "threat" that was never substantiated and never materialized

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Michael Tracey

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3 years

Hope we can all agree that Dems would've reacted totally calmly and rationally if Trump tried to unilaterally coerce millions of unwilling adults (disproportionately POC) to submit to the injection he pioneered

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Michael Tracey

@mtracey

2 years

The Mississippi law that the Supreme Court upheld today bans abortion after 15 weeks. France bans abortion after 12 weeks

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@EmmanuelMacron

2 years

Abortion is a fundamental right for all women. It must be protected. I wish to express my solidarity with the women whose liberties are being undermined by the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Michael Tracey

@mtracey

6 years

Whether you hate Alex Jones is beside the point. Do you love the fact a handful of tech monopolists have the power to simultaneously purge him from the internet?

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Michael Tracey

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3 years

Pretty funny that a former president's speech has generated exponentially more anticipation and hype than any speech by the current president

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Michael Tracey

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4 years

@David_Leavitt @Target So you decided to publicly shame a random Target worker because you’re mad about a toothbrush

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Michael Tracey

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4 years

Did anyone notice that nobody brought up Trump's impeachment at the Dem Convention. Frantically portrayed as of earth-shattering, world-historical importance at the time, but apparently didn't even warrant a mention 🤔

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Michael Tracey

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2 months

Ben Shapiro: Keep working, dammit! 68-year-old American: But I would rather do leisure activities and spend time with my grandchildren. I was a roofer for 30 years! Ben Shapiro: That's anti-Semitic!

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Michael Tracey

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2 years

Call it "whataboutism," I don't care: it's impossible to take seriously this sudden newfound concern for "war crimes" coming from some of the same exact people who never gave a crap about similar or worse "crimes" committed in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, etc.

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Michael Tracey

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3 years

Unclear if Trump ever really planned on following through with a genuine Afghanistan withdrawal -- but if he did, and it went approximately like it's going now, you know there would've been a five-alarm-fire media meltdown about how this is all according to the plan of Putin

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Michael Tracey

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2 years

Someone's going to have to explain why the people who were the most hyper risk-averse toward a respiratory virus are now the most cavalierly risk-tolerant toward nuclear destruction

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Michael Tracey

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3 years

None of this is about “safety,” it’s about purposely inflating a threat in order to assert political and cultural dominance

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Michael Tracey

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3 years

Asked the Guardsmen why they are standing around with unloaded rifles. “I don’t know, I’m just doing what I’m told”

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Michael Tracey

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2 years

Bernie Sanders just voted YES on funding the US proxy war in Ukraine to the tune of $40 billion. So now it's officially on the record that every national politician associated with the activist "Left" is completely on board with escalating the war. That's what the "Left" is now

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Michael Tracey

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1 year

If the New York Times or anyone else thinks "liberty" needs to be "saved" in Ukraine, have they noticed Ukraine itself has imposed martial law, barred men from leaving the country, and consolidated state control of the media? Or are these considered liberty-enhancing measures now

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Michael Tracey

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6 years

Alex Jones has been doing the same thing every day for well over a decade, but Facebook, YouTube, and Apple all decide within hours that he suddenly violates their "community guidelines." Sure, OK

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Michael Tracey

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6 months

Jimmy Carter in 2013 said he met several times with Hamas leadership and they would be willing to accept the existence of Israel -- but Netanyahu was intent on imposing a "one-state solution," which would make negotiations impossible and be "a disaster for Israel"

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Michael Tracey

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3 years

Does anyone seriously think that if Trump had won the election (only came down to 42,918 votes in three states) there wouldn't have been widespread claims of fraud, wild conspiracies, Electoral College challenges, and huge protests in DC that could be said to "incite" violence

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Michael Tracey

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4 years

Joe Rogan says Biden, Warren, and Mayor Pete tried to get on his podcast and he turned them down. "I like Tulsi and I like Bernie, that's it. Everybody else can eat shit." LOL

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Michael Tracey

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5 years

I'm not kidding when I say Mueller's non-vindication could cause serious mental health episodes. People are so emotionally invested in this, it's insane. I don't blame regular citizens who fell for it; I feel bad for them. I scorn and detest the politicians + media responsible

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Michael Tracey

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3 years

The most extreme, coordinated corporate censorship offensive in modern history and liberals/leftists are in a mindless celebratory stupor. Pathetic shills

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Michael Tracey

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2 months

The amount of outright lying going on right now about the TikTok bill is unusual even by Washington, DC standards. They're about to pass one of the most momentous acts of state censorship in US history, and they continue to lie and insist they're not actually doing this

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Michael Tracey

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3 years

Good to know we'll be able to receive regular updates from the new Taliban government on Twitter, but to get updates from Donald Trump you'll have to go elsewhere

Zabihullah (..ذبـــــیح الله م )

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3 years

کابل ښار تر مدیریت لاندې دی، د اسلامي امارت ځانګړي قطعات د امنیت د تأمین په موخه د ښار په مختلفو برخو کې ځای پر ځای شوي. عام خلک د مجاهدینو په ورتګ خوښي ښیي او له امنیت څخه راضي دي.

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Michael Tracey

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2 years

Have you noticed the same people passionately demanding gun control are also passionately demanding that giant amounts of uncontrollable, untraceable guns be indiscriminately dumped into Eastern Europe

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Michael Tracey

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1 year

@thatpeterfox @kanyewest Is he in the room with you?

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Michael Tracey

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2 years

FOX NEWS host Harris Faulkner turns to Condoleezza Rice this morning and says, "When you invade a sovereign nation, that is a war crime" -- Rice nods in solemn agreement. Just incredible. Establishment factions are going all-out leveraging this to whitewash their own past actions

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Michael Tracey

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3 years

They want him impeached again, convicted, and removed not for some high-minded civic purpose -- but to punish and humiliate him and his followers

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2 years

Govs. DeSantis and Youngkin are both enacting abortion bans that start at 15 weeks, which means that Florida and Virginia will still have more liberal abortion laws than virtually all of Western Europe

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Michael Tracey

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5 months

Jan 6 defendants have long argued that the initial entrants were peaceably escorted into the building by Capitol Police, and therefore had no reasonable expectation that their conduct was unlawful This video, suppressed for almost 3 years, confirms it

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4 years

Democrats might want to take a look at the UK for insight on how voters react when one party is perceived to be overturning an election result

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5 years

Tulsi has ~170,000 individual donors. Two national polls this week alone put her at or above the required threshold (but they're not "approved" by the DNC). She's ahead of Beto, Yang, Klobuchar, Booker, and Castro in New Hampshire. Excluding her from the debates is a total joke.

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1 year

Sorry to break it to you, but Trump was spot-on with this one: “They say the ocean will rise 1/8 of an inch over the next 200 to 300 years, but don’t worry about nuclear weapons that can take out entire countries with one shot. Something is wrong with their thinking”

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Michael Tracey

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3 years

Haven't heard a single elected Democrat express the slightest degree of apprehension about the most extreme oligarchic censorship purge in modern history

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2 years

In the span of 24 hours, Biden has declared that US troops are headed to Ukraine, and declared his intention to impose regime change on Russia. Really doing a fantastic job

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1 year

Wave a magic wand and suddenly anti-lockdown protesters are no longer "COVID deniers" or conspiracy theorists when they happen to be in China

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Michael Tracey

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3 years

Anyone who celebrates the "de-platforming" of the sitting President from social media -- likely the most extreme thing which has happened over the past day -- is a naked authoritarian who craves the punitive authority of tech companies to carrying out their political bidding

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Michael Tracey

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4 years

AOC casually drops the term "environmental racism" like she expects anyone other than an extremely narrow band of creepy activist-brained losers to even know what the fuck she's talking about

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Michael Tracey

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4 years

I don't think it's accurate that "silence" automatically equals "complicity" or "violence." Sometimes people are "silent" because they have complicated views about a complicated subject, and decline to mindlessly repeat whatever cliches you are trying to force down their throat

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Michael Tracey

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1 year

Just a few items confirmed by the leaked docs: - Zelensky ordering attacks inside Russia - Presence of US/NATO special forces in Ukraine - US spying on top Ukraine officials - Ukraine attacking Belarus But everyone's ENRAGED the government is no longer concealing these things

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2 years

Wait, people are actually arguing that the pilot put lives in danger by repeating a political joke meme? 🤣

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4 years

Totally neutral platform

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Netanyahu declaring invasion: "You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible" 1 Samuel 15:3 "Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass"

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Michael Tracey

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3 years

The primary constituency served by a federal vaccine mandate is affluent, vengeful neurotics whose sense of comfort depends on the Government coercing their perceived cultural inferiors into compliance

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Michael Tracey

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4 years

I think the media has done a very poor job informing voters that Joe Biden is exhibiting obvious signs of rapid cognitive decline

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Michael Tracey

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4 years

As someone who spent two months covering the aftermath of the most widespread riots in at least 50 years, this never-ending fixation with illusory organized "white supremacist" groups couldn't be more absurd. It's 99% a media invention totally disconnected from reality

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Michael Tracey

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3 years

Twitter's stated rationale for banning Sidney Powell, Mike Flynn, and others -- "behavior that has the potential to lead to offline harm" -- is extraordinarily creepy and could be used against virtually anyone if the powers-that-be decided it was politically necessary

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Michael Tracey

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2 years

David Petraeus said today that if a "tactical" nuke is used in Ukraine, the US will immediately launch all-out conventional war on Russia. No thought given to consulting Congress or the public first -- they've already decided ahead of time to launch World War III. So that's that

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Michael Tracey

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2 years

We know the US Government always told the complete truth about the USS Maine, the RMS Lusitania, the USS Greer, the Gulf of Tonkin, Iraqi babies in incubators, WMDs, etc. So there's every reason to believe they're telling the complete truth about the Nordstream pipeline explosion

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Michael Tracey

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3 years

Imagining an alternate universe where Trump ordered a massive, unprecedented military occupation of Washington, DC in order to quell protest ahead of his Second Inauguration. I'm sure the media would've just sat back and meekly accepted it

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Michael Tracey

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7 years

WikiLeaks = relentlessly attacked for publishing verified, authentic info BuzzFeed = cheered for publishing what appears to be a total sham

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2 years

Tweeted just hours before Zelensky unilaterally banned 11 opposition parties -- impressive

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2 years

Ukraine may be the first example in human history of a country that under the pressure of war is becoming *more* tolerant and *more* liberal

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Media members who once denounced the deployment of military force to American streets as the rawest incarnation of violent fascism have now joined together to cheer the military occupation of Washington, DC

Media Cheers DC Under Military Occupation

Downtown Washington, DC is currently under what essentially amounts to military occupation. Streets are locked down, guarded by Army…

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2 years

Jokes aside, why did so many activists and pundits suddenly decide that driving 30 minutes from Illinois to Wisconsin was an act of profound moral consequence? It's really weird

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2 years

Biden has done such an amazing job with diplomacy that the world's two most populous countries, China and India, are ignoring the US and defiantly aligning with Russia

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Michael Tracey

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This MIT graduate student and Fulbright Scholar -- one of the most "privileged" people on Earth -- says she doesn't "feel safe" in Cambridge, Massachusetts because there have been "rallies and events" on the campus that she objects to politically Just self-evidently laughable

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Jewish student tells @jaketapper she doesn't feel safe at MIT

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If you honestly care whether Aaron Rodgers is vaccinated at this point, you're the one with the problem

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1 year

Can someone explain why the infinite number of Democratic politicians, journalists, and activists who spent several years claiming the 2016 election was stolen by Trump in a treasonous Russian conspiracy plot were never called "election deniers" for "undermining our democracy"

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Dark days ahead. There is only one man who should be celebrating Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter -- Vladimir Putin. My latest in the New York Times:

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3 years

This NBA player is waaaaaaay more rational and sensible than 99% of government officials, pundits, and corporate bureaucrats

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Netanyahu, who largely ignores Israeli media, continues to tell US media that if Israel does not invade and occupy the Gaza strip, "America will be next" "Israel is fighting America's war," he insists Got that? If the war does not proceed, Hamas will take over Peoria, Illinois

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1 year

Remember when Hunter Biden got paid $83,000 per month from a Ukraine gas company to do nothing. That was a hoot

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3 years

Back when Alex Jones was simultaneously purged from all major social media platforms, many argued it was fine, because Alex Jones was uniquely bad. Three years later the Executive Branch is demanding simultaneous cross-platform purges for "misinformation." Great foresight, idiots

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4 years

You don’t even have to think the Hunter Biden materials constitute some kind of earth-shattering story to be absolutely repulsed at the authoritarian propaganda offensive being waged to discredit them -- primarily by journalists who behave like compliant little trained robots

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Michael Tracey

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AOC, continuing to warn of alleged “insurrection,” claims on national TV this morning: "We came close to half of the House nearly dying" No you didn’t. However, you love that the drama enables you to demand punitive policy action with such a high degree of sanctimony

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Michael Tracey

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Numerous people in various media fields have told me this is the most oppressive political environment they have ever experienced. If they say anything that even deviates ever-so-marginally from consensus opinion, their livelihoods will be destroyed. And they are probably right

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This term now entering popular usage, "the unvaccinated" -- as though that's a new class of people -- is extremely creepy

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Fun fact: Trump won more votes in Hawaii (196,602) than any other Republican candidate since statehood in 1959

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Facebook and Twitter are now outright removing Trump posts. Nothing like a wildly exaggerated "crisis" to justify censorship that will eventually be used on everyone else

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Lula on Ukraine: "Putin shouldn’t have invaded Ukraine. But it’s not just Putin who is guilty. The US and EU are also guilty. What was the reason for the Ukraine invasion? NATO? Then the US and EU should have said: 'Ukraine won’t join NATO.' That would have solved the problem"

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4 years

Twitter is an insane asylum. Every normal person I have talked to in real life about these protests/riots, including black people, would be denounced as a fascist on Twitter

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German foreign minister declares war on Russia

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2 years

Ukrainian civilians getting bombed in city-centers and Russian civilians getting bombed while crossing a bridge both seem like bad outcomes. Such outcomes might've been avoided with diplomacy, which the US sought to undermine and instead focused exclusively on military escalation

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2 years

Looks like it's gradually coming out that many of those tales of scrappy, resourceful Ukrainian military skill were really just US operations. Shocker

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Michael Tracey

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5 years

When you cheer because someone you dislike gets banned from Twitter, you are cheering unnamed Bay Area apparatchiks seizing greater and greater power to dictate what you're allowed to see, using increasingly inscrutable and subjective criteria. People really want this?

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Michael Tracey

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Not a single Democrat in the House has any objection to dumping another $40 billion of untraceable high-grade weaponry into Ukraine -- another blank check for continued US military escalation. Every one of them just voted for it, no questions asked

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3 years

UFOs just casually acknowledged as real on 60 Minutes tonight, no biggie

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The judge who just threw Trump off the ballot in Illinois typically "presides over minor traffic violations"

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Jim Acosta was deprived access to the exclusive White House journo-club for a few days, Julian Assange is locked in a tiny embassy for 6+ years and now faces criminal prosecution by the most powerful government in world history. Guess who the media treats as a bigger martyr

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Michael Tracey

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To all the nervous media people getting ready to insist that Mueller’s apparent failure to uncover a Trump/Russia conspiracy is no big deal: you are liars, you are frauds, you were wrong from the beginning, and you will be held accountable

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So they colluded to *de-list* various stocks from popular apps because the internet outsmarted them!

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