December 9, 2022

Matt Taibbi is back with another set of tweets, this time focusing on Donald Trump.

Start here.

1. THREAD: The Twitter Files/THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP/Part One: October 2020-January 6th....

4. This first installment covers the period before the election through January 6th. Tomorrow, @Shellenbergermd will detail the chaos inside Twitter on January 7th. On Sunday, @BariWeiss will reveal the secret internal communications from the key date of January 8th.

ADDED:


"DEFINITELY NOT meeting with the FBI I SWEAR."

ALSO: Just some excerpts:

20. This post about the Hunter Biden laptop situation shows that Roth not only met weekly with the FBI and DHS, but with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI)....

21. Roth’s report to FBI/DHS/DNI is almost farcical in its self-flagellating tone: “We blocked the NYP story, then unblocked it (but said the opposite)… comms is angry, reporters think we’re idiots… in short, FML” (fuck my life)....

23. Some of Roth’s later Slacks indicate his weekly confabs with federal law enforcement involved separate meetings. Here, he ghosts the FBI and DHS, respectively, to go first to an “Aspen Institute thing,” then take a call with Apple.

33 comments:

Achilles said...

Definitely not meeting with the FBI, I swear!

This is the definition of National Socialism.

chickelit said...

Joel Roth has quite a sense of humor. Almost as if he knew his words would be shared giving plausible deniability. I hope he was dismissed by Musk.

RideSpaceMountain said...

Ah. Yoel Roth. Another leftist "coincidentarian".

tim in vermont said...

Lol, I think that the idea that the censorship was by a private company and therefore there was no 1A violation is truly dead.

I Have Misplaced My Pants said...

What a preening, juvenile little asswipe.

chickelit said...

tim in vermont said...Lol, I think that the idea that the censorship was by a private company and therefore there was no 1A violation is truly dead.

There was so much collusion between Twitter and the DNC! But somehow the orders weren't coming down from Jack nor from the FBI. Those children just had too much power. Well I'm glad they've been swept away.

Josephbleau said...

What happens when it is publicly obvious that the Democrat Party Main Governance Board violated the law.

Nixon, a coverup requires impeachment.

Trump, we think he lies, impeach him.

Beiden, Hunter was stealing for Joe, it is old news.


Twitter was working with FBI to hide what Americans can know.

Can we really just say that? that the FBI are democrat crooks?

Is there no Clint Eastwood in the village?

Im sure that the reference to Eastwood will let the FBI declare me a violent risk!

chickelit said...

It's easy to image these Twitterlings growing up one day and boasting to the next generation "We stopped Trump, Man!"

chickelit said...

I can almost hear these Twitterlings one day recalling the salad days at Twitter when they could bop down to the cafeteria and get a double mocha latte with two pumps of vanilla and then go back upstairs and fight against Republicans all morning. Good work if you get it and it was too bad about Musk. He wrecked my life!

D.D. Driver said...

God damn I'm starting to sounds like a nutter but don't we have to ask why our intelligence agencies wanted a senile old man with *that much compromising information against him* to be President? Perhaps in this case being easily blackmailed is a feature and not a big.

I know I'm not the only one that has watched that doddering old geezer stumble about and asked, "OK, who is actually in charge. There is no way it's this guy." 🤔

Carol said...

Doing God's work, I'm sure.

Balfegor said...

Re: chicklit:

Joel Roth has quite a sense of humor. Almost as if he knew his words would be shared giving plausible deniability. I hope he was dismissed by Musk.

My impression is he cooperated with Musk initially. I recall reading somewhere (I forget where) that he actually disclosed some of this pattern conduct without trying to conceal it or go behind Musk's back, even though he didn't agree with Musk's preferred approach to these matters. Which is what you'd want, frankly. The tone of these slack messages also doesn't strike me as someone hoping to establish plausible deniability (at all), but rather someone who suspects what he's doing might be inappropriate and is turning it into a joke to avoid the feeling of embarrassment or shame.

I think Roth was not dismissed, but left voluntarily because he opposed the arbitrary process by which Musk decided on and rolled out the $8 bluecheck verification thing.

Original Mike said...

"20. This post about the Hunter Biden laptop situation shows that Roth not only met weekly with the FBI and DHS, but with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).... "

Did John Ratcliffe know?

chickelit said...

@Balfegor: Well, it least I can hope that bad karma follows Vijaya Gadde.

PM said...

1. So this is what STEM and a free cafeteria got us?
2. Shellenberger's been a must-read for a while.

mezzrow said...

We're getting familiar with the truth about Twitter.
Familiarity breeds contempt.

D.D. Driver said...

The next thing you know, the FBI will be orchestrating the fake kidnapping of Democratic governor from Michigan. Boy, wouldn't THAT be crazy?

Two election cycles in a row and our Top Men are shopping blackmail material about presidential candidates? What in the actual fuck is going on? Elections and our intelligence agencies are two great tastes that taste like shit together.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I just hope it doesn’t take a Musk to uncover “conspiracy theories”. There’s so many “conspiracy theories” and not as many billionaires.

MayBee said...

This one is bad.

Do newspapers and tv news outlets meet with with DHS, FBI, etc every week to find out what is allowable?

MayBee said...

Balfegor said:
but rather someone who suspects what he's doing might be inappropriate and is turning it into a joke to avoid the feeling of embarrassment or shame.


I read it differently. He is soooo busy. This is so cool. He is doing deep inside stuff. How will he even keep up its so important lol he's so busy. Whew! Doing his job is busy and important! Can't talk about it all right now. Not for others to know. So cooL!

Original Mike said...

"Do newspapers and tv news outlets meet with with DHS, FBI, etc every week to find out what is allowable?"

It is incredible. While I was growing up, journalists considered these agencies the enemy, or at least the opposition. How the hell did we get to where we are today?

Martin L. Shoemaker said...

MayBee said...
“I read it differently. He is soooo busy. This is so cool. He is doing deep inside stuff. How will he even keep up its so important lol he's so busy. Whew! Doing his job is busy and important! Can't talk about it all right now. Not for others to know. So cooL!”

My thought as I read was that these people are drunk with power. They’re absolutely thrilled to be in the center of all this action and to be important decision makers. They were too busy with the power to worry about the ethics, especially since they were heroically fighting the Bad People.

Yancey Ward said...

Balfegor,

I read it completely differently- he never thought it would become public, and was giddy about it all. After Musk took over, he tried to stay in the loop to control issues, but quickly learned it wasn't going to work.

Daniel12 said...

Interesting. Donald Trump's FBI and DHS were meeting regularly with Twitter.

Twitter was pretty important to Trump. So did he know, or not know, these meetings were happening?

Steve Pitment said...

Daniel12 said...

Interesting. Donald Trump's FBI and DHS were meeting regularly with Twitter.

Twitter was pretty important to Trump. So did he know, or not know, these meetings were happening?


What do you think? "Donald Trump's FBI" LOL. Yes, as we all know the FBI was Donald Trump's plaything while he was in office. The DOJ too. Robert Mueller and Jim Comey are Republicans, Right?

Breezy said...

Jessica Tarlov on “The Five” last night tried to claim it was the Trump admin (i. e. not a Dem thing) colluding with Twitter to shut down Trump and conservatives. She’s so funny!

Jamie said...

Donald Trump's FBI and DHS

Hahahahahaha!

Whew... [wipes eyes]

iowan2 said...

Breezy, Tarlov is locked in to using approved talking points. Before 5pme est. yesterday, the approved defense of the undeffensable, was twitter only was following their well known rules. That the Trump WH also make request to twitter, and twitter honored all those requests, so all is good.
But last nights release exposed evidence that twitter management was 'all atwitter' over violating their own rules, in order to do the right thing. Help the good people, and hurt the bad people.
While Tiabbi earlier posted the Trump WH asked for and got requests honored, last nite Tiabbi, repeated the story, but revealed they could find no communication from the Trump White House, and no internal slack discussion concerning anything about the Trump WH, cautioning that it might have happened, but they found no evidence.

wendybar said...

Sanctimonious Twitter Trust and Safety Council Twits share their RESIGNATION letter

"annecollier
@annecollier
Three of us resigned from Twitter’s Trust & Safety Council today:
@eirliani

@podesta_lesley
and me. Here’s why https://netfamilynews.org/members-of-twitters-trust-safety-council-resign-in-protest-against-elon-musks-safety-messages-to-date" https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/12/09/sanctimonious-twitter-trust-and-safety-council-twits-share-their-resignation-letter-and-hoo-boy/


Lesley Podesta. John Podesta's niece. As I have said before, DC is in one giant orgy together. John likes little kids. He collects pornographic art of children. WHY isn't he in prison yet???

Tina Trent said...

These are the people who buy Hunter Biden art.

Iman said...

The Bum of Brooklyn!

GrapeApe said...

It took a fearless billionaire to buy a censorious company to expose this. Good for Musk. Leftist crap exposed. Hope people are paying attention.

SteveSc said...

Anyone here think the same thing is not going on at Facebook/Google/YouTube/Etc? Same type of people, same place mostly.