Comments on: The Twitter files and the smoking gun https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/05/the-twitter-files-and-the-smoking-gun/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 06 Dec 2022 21:16:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/05/the-twitter-files-and-the-smoking-gun/#comment-2656422 Tue, 06 Dec 2022 21:16:03 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=122589#comment-2656422 neo
Thanks for the input. Strikes me that, in earlier and harsher days, you needed to get it right, unsat as it may be. Now, as civilization files off the sharp edges to make things easier for the old, young, disabled, distracted, the penalty for getting something wrong is either nonexistent, far in the future, or not apparently connected to the self-indulgent decisions.
Chesterton’s note about The Fence is applicable. Somebody went to a lot of trouble, passed up other things which could have been done with the time and resources because this was the most important thing.
The liberal who kicks it over without a thought is gone before whatever it is that was fenced in or out appears to trouble the descendants of the fence builders. And because they complain, it means they are bad people whose complaints can be ignored and besides the deserve it.
And when the liberal is himself victimized, it’s somebody else’s fault.

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/05/the-twitter-files-and-the-smoking-gun/#comment-2656392 Tue, 06 Dec 2022 19:25:44 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=122589#comment-2656392 Richard Aubrey:

I don’t think it’s a mystery. Sources they trust – friends, family, MSM, pundits – have told them those things are unreliable and mendacious (FOX) or both and downright evil (Trump). They haven’t the time or interest to listen for themselves; it seems a self-evident truth to them that all the smart and good people also believe. Plus, if and when they do listen to a little bit, it’s through the filter of their already-held conceptions. A mind is a difficult thing to change, and it’s satisfying to cling to a convenient excuse, and also it means you yourself are virtuous and good. There are so many benefits it’s easy to see them.

]]> By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/05/the-twitter-files-and-the-smoking-gun/#comment-2656390 Tue, 06 Dec 2022 19:20:13 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=122589#comment-2656390 Perhaps I have accidentally landed in an unrepresentative group of people in my circle of acquaintances.
But the dem/lib/prog and anti-Trump folks are…..strange.
If one mentions a fact inconvenient to their views, they’ll say, “Fox” or “Trump” with the self-satisfied air of intellectual triumph. Logic and facts are meaningless.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/12/does_granholm_hands_out_200_million_greenie_grant_to_lithium_battery_company__controlled_by_the_chinese.html

Shrug. “Faux news”.

There is no Bad Thing done to our country which is not denied or dismissed if it’s done by the dem/prog/lib…because it annoys conservatives (insert insulting nomenclature here).

I’m not talking about the Swamp, the fed bureaucrats, the MSM. I’m talking about ordinary people who, in other parts of their lives, seem to handle reality reasonably well.

Not getting it. But the left can’t succeed without a sufficient number of these folks. Where do they come from and why to they find such ideas so satisfactory?

]]> By: Brian E https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/05/the-twitter-files-and-the-smoking-gun/#comment-2656304 Tue, 06 Dec 2022 03:12:41 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=122589#comment-2656304 And this person was chairman of the RNC?

Michael Steele explains how Elon Musk’s #TwitterFiles drop ‘undermines the central tenets of free speech’

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/12/05/michael-steele-explains-how-elon-musks-twitterfiles-drop-undermines-the-central-tenets-of-free-speech/

]]> By: sdferr https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/05/the-twitter-files-and-the-smoking-gun/#comment-2656299 Tue, 06 Dec 2022 02:39:47 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=122589#comment-2656299 The Post Millennial:

FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan, an operative who allegedly warned Twitter in 2020 that the Hunter Biden laptop story reported by the New York Post was a Russian disinformation dump, also made financial donations to Democrats.

War Room’s Natalie Winters said “Elvis Chan – the lead FBI agent ‘warning’ Twitter about ‘Russian disinformation’ and a compromising story about Hunter Biden – is a repeat Democrat Donor. It’s so in your face.”

https://thepostmillennial.com/lead-fbi-agent-who-warned-twitter-about-russian-disinformation-dump-is-repeat-donor-to-democratic-party-report

]]> By: Miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/05/the-twitter-files-and-the-smoking-gun/#comment-2656270 Mon, 05 Dec 2022 23:41:34 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=122589#comment-2656270 Wray has been a mutineer along with comey and mueller going back to 2004

https://twitter.com/ShantMM/status/1599851457821708289?cxt=HHwWgsDUzZWb6LMsAAAA

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/05/the-twitter-files-and-the-smoking-gun/#comment-2656268 Mon, 05 Dec 2022 23:39:43 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=122589#comment-2656268 A huge part of the blame for the cover-up of this story can be put on Chris Wray and Bill Barr who knew Biden was compromised and did nothing about it.

I have a suspicion that Wray hardly knows what’s going on and defends his subordinates reflexively. As for Barr, he let it slide when Jeffrey Epstein ‘committed suicide’ in prison. He is not a man of character. He’s Sgt. Schultz. It’s a reasonable wager he knew one thing — that Robert Mueller was cognitively impaired. Their wives are personal friends. With scant doubt he auditioned for the post of Attorney-General to head off the appointment of someone who would really clean house. Again, Andrew Weissman’s crooked wrecking crew was recruited from among the Department’s senior appointees. What they were plotting – to indict Trump for obstructing their obstruction investigation – is a strong indication that the Department’s senior ranks are rancid.

]]> By: Robert Shotzberger https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/05/the-twitter-files-and-the-smoking-gun/#comment-2656266 Mon, 05 Dec 2022 23:29:10 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=122589#comment-2656266 The tech companies and the media obey because they are all on the same side.

]]> By: Miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/05/the-twitter-files-and-the-smoking-gun/#comment-2656242 Mon, 05 Dec 2022 21:40:50 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=122589#comment-2656242 Welcome to the party andrew have a beer

He takes an awfully long time to realize what is patently obvious to most

]]> By: Kate https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/05/the-twitter-files-and-the-smoking-gun/#comment-2656238 Mon, 05 Dec 2022 21:31:29 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=122589#comment-2656238 The FBI’s regular meetings with Twitter and Facebook execs to discuss “misinformation” are a sufficient reason to fire the agents involved and their management team and the FBI Director. Americans have free speech rights. Government interference in those is unacceptable.

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