News Of The Week
It's hard to keep up, but I'll take a stab at it!
Here’s a brief [ha ha joke!] summary of the events of the past seven days or so as I struggle along with everybody else to keep pace with developments on about five different news fronts.
It’s Now Official: The Deep State Has No Answer For Elon Musk
Elon Musk as the new Twitter owner and CEO is now overtly saying things on his account that would have have led to an instant ban under the old regime.
He hasn’t completely remodeled the entire company yet in the 40 days he’s been in charge, but he’s off to one hell of a start.
You want more?
Musk now telling his 120 million followers and hundreds of millions who don’t follow him that he agrees we are in some kind of “mass awakening event” after having been subjected to a mass formation psychosis that is going to destroy the “woke mind virus.”
And then Musk sent another massive signal out into the American public square:
It’s impossible to overstate the impact of that. But I tried:
MASSIVE VACCINE RED PILL JUST DELIVERED
# OF NORMIES THAT SAW IT: IN THE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS
DIRECTLY SIGNALS THAT **IT'S OK TO TALK ABOUT VACCINE SIDE EFFECTS, DANGERS AND DEATHS ON TWITTER NOW.
BECAUSE THE CEO IS DOING IT **HIMSELF**.
We’re in a strange situation right now where the billionaire who bought Twitter is deliberately exposing all of the companies secrets and red-pilling hundreds of millions of people who don’t follow Conservative news outlets.
Former top company executives and key staff are being completely exposed via Twitter’s internal documentation. Emails, letters, filings and most importantly, the Twitter internal Slack messaging system. [Since these are **company** messages and documents, sent over company-run messaging systems, they are company property and employees have no expectation of privacy. Ironic, no?]
I initially saw comments on Truth Social where people were confused and upset that Musk only seemed to be giving these explosive scoops to left-leaning journalists. But that missed a crucial point.
THE WORST MISTAKE Elon could have made would’ve been to give the release of the Twitter Files to people like Dan Bongino, Dinesh D’Souza, James O’Keefe or Charlie Kirk.
That would allow the Mockingbird Media to instantly and EASILY dismiss the Twitter Files. Most of the information never would have made it out of the Conservative echo chamber.
They’re still trying to dismiss the scandal, of course.
BUT THEY’RE HAVING TO WORK SO MUCH HARDER AT IT.
Because all the normies on Twitter can see it’s not coming out via massive Trump booster club members. Far from it.
Here’s your reminder that NOBODY exposing The Old Twitter Regime in the Twitter Files scandal is any kind of Trump bandwagon fan.
Is Elon Musk a massive rah rah rah Trump cheerleader?
NO.
How about Matt Taibbi? Is he a big Trump supporter?
NO.
Well, uh, ok how about Bari Weiss? At least tell me that she…
NO.
All right then, what about Michael Shellenberger? Is he…
NO.
NONE of them are Trump fans. They’re ALL Democrats historically.
AND THAT’S WHY THE TWITTER FILES ARE SO POWERFUL.
If they could stop Musk from doing what he’s doing…wouldn’t they have stopped him by now? It’s becoming apparent they don’t have an answer or any really effective countermove yet.
The Old House Is Dead - All Hail The New House!
The J6 Committee has now delayed the release of it's report 5 times.
Or is it 6?
I lost count.
Ah well.
Everybody on that committee is gonna run for cover and hunt themselves a hole once the Democrats lose control of it.
And Miss Piggy won't be there any more.
The Drunken Mafia Princess will still be there, after having the Speaker’s gavel pried from out of her bony hands. I’m really looking forward to that moment, how about you?
This all happens in less than a month.
Is this a good time to remind everyone that Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro were referred to the DOJ for criminal prosecution, subsequently were indicted, and are headed to trial next year for the crime of refusing subpoenas to appear before Congress to testify under oath?
And that Jack Dorsey actually went to Congress and testified under oath and it’s now PROVEN that he perjured himself when he testified under oath that Twitter wasn’t shadowbanning anyone, including Conservatives?
Right now as Democrats lose control of the House in less than a month, certain people [ **gigglesnort!**] are really REALLY wishing they'd managed to stop Elon Musk from buying Twitter.
They are also really wishing they hadn't pursued criminal charges against Bannon & Navarro for defying a Congressional subpoena.
Because when Jack and former Twitter staff get Congressional subpoenas to come testify to the Committees under oath, guess what's going to happen?
No, really. Take a wild guess.
They're ALL going to defy the subpoenas.
I'd be surprised if ANY of them voluntarily show up.
Also: all you anons out there. You need to focus your attention on the guy **who immediately leaped to try to scrub his entire existence off of the internet once he was exposed in Twitter Files 3.0**.
Patrick Conlon.
He **instantly** scrubbed his Twitter & other social media accounts, including his Linkedin. But journalist Andy Ngo caught him at it.
Dorsey, Gadde, Roth, Conlon, Bakypour, Pickles, they're ALL gonna get subpoenas.
And they're all very likely going to defy them.
Understand what you've been watching for the past YEAR?
You been watching the set up.
Defying a Congressional subpoena is a ver' ver' BAD THING to do, and Bannon and Navarro are headed for CRIMINAL TRIALS RIGHT NOW to prove that point.
THANK YOU FOR ESTABLISHING THAT PRECEDENT, Democrats and Department of Justice! You guys have been swell! We’ll take it from here!
Merry Christmas.
Bannon and Navarro will likely get some slap on the wrist [fine, community service] at worst or have their cases tossed out before trial. Because they didn’t really do anything and the J6 Committee was just one long ugly fishing expedition in search of a crime.
Meanwhile the entire country gets to watch more and more EVIDENCE roll out of the manifest CRIMES going on at Twitter as Rothe, Gadde, Dorsey, Conlon and all the rest lawyer up and defy the subpoenas they'll be sent.
They do NOT want to come to Congress & testify under oath now that Twitter's own DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE is going to be rubbed in their faces.
What does Merrick Garland do when he's **very publicly sending** both BANNON and NAVARRO to criminal trials early next year for defying subpoenas when Congress sends him NEW criminal referrals for Twitter executives defying subpoenas?
Ignore them?
When the **direct evidence** of what these goons were doing keeps being dropped in public view by Musk?
No **evidence** that either Bannon OR Navarro were ever involved in any criminal act or activity has ever surfaced.
BUT they defied Congressional subpoenas issued by the January 6 Committee ORDERING them to appear to answer questions under oath.
Congress then made 2 criminal referrals to the DOJ, and Garland **agreed** that defying a Congressional subpoena is a criminal act, and so both men were indicted & are headed to trial.
Contrast THAT with what's going on with TWITTER right now.
While Bannon and Navarro never had ANY smoking gun emerge tying them to ANY criminal activity on January 6 - or at any other time - they were subpoenaed by the Congress and they refused to appear to testify under oath.
DIRECT, SOLID, UNCONTESTABLE DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE OF CRIMINAL ACTS are emerging from the Twitter Files scandal. Musk himself as the new CEO is exposing the evidence.
When Congress subpoenas the former Twitter regime, & they DEFY their subpoenas, the table is SET. Garland has no real excuse for not filing indictments and prosecuting those who refuse to appear.
As if to prove my point:
While the January 6 Committee has DUG AND SEARCHED AND LEAKED AND FRANTICALLY SCRAMBLED TO FIND SOMETHING ANYTHING TO TIE TRUMP, BANNON, NAVARRO, ETC to the Capitol riot for over a YEAR now, and came up empty, no evidence was ever found...
Elon is practically TROLLING THE BAD GUYS about what he's doing.
He's handing the evidence to people who will use it. It will lead to subpoenas, likely by the end of January.
And he hammered the point home again today:
2 hours ago he tweeted this.
January 6 Committee was a witch hunt in desperate search of an actual crime by Trump and his inner circle. They failed. They got nothing.
The Twitter Files Committee that's going to be formed in January of 2023 to investigate this scandal is going to **start** with a F**KING TON of solid, documented uncontestable evidence from TWITTER'S OWN INTERNAL FILES.
Be of good cheer, little flock.
Now Musk is agreeing with Lara Logan that the people on the former Trust and Safety Council should be held responsible for their inaction on the CSE underground market that operated on Twitter for more than a decade.
This leads me directly to the next fascinating development I want to talk about:
Elon Musk Now Practically Daring The Gay Jewish Former Head of Twitter’s Trust & Safety Council To Sue Him
First, Musk called Roth the ‘real’ CEO of Twitter who was actually running the company - even when Jack Dorsey was still there. Musk is claiming Roth was the de facto CEO up until the moment he was fired and shown the door.
That was followed by Musk throwing a massive spotlight on Roth’s exceedingly strange behavior:
As the Twitter Files 4.0 began to be dropped by journalist Michael Shellenberger, I posted this to my Truth Social account:
I've been telling you Jack Dorsey wasn't really running Twitter when he was there.
He certainly wasn't the last few years before he left.
THIS IS WHAT ELON MUSK IS SHOWING YOU.
He's showing you the EVIDENCE of who was really in charge of the company.
And it's wasn't the deadhead hippy frontman boy wonder they stuck out front as a cover story.
The documentary EVIDENCE coming out SHOWS YOU who was making the big decisions from 2016 to just a few weeks ago.
It WASN'T this guy.
The internal Slack messages give it away.
Roth is making all the **big** decisions.
Not once does anybody say "Wait we can't make this decision, we have to get Jack to approve this!"
NOBODY takes anything to Jack for a decision.
They take everything to either Roth or Gadde.
Some people are so blinded by the Jack hate they can't look past it to see what was really going on at that company.
THAT'S THE POINT.
THAT'S A FRONT MAN'S JOB.
To DISTRACT YOU and hide the people behind him.
LOL and the very first thing Shellenberger brings up is that the week all the shit was going down in January 4-8, 2021 Jack just **by some strange coincidence was far, far away from Twitter HQ on vacation in French Polynesia.
Yup.
So the same people handling EVERYTHING when he wasn't on vacation ended up handling the banning of a sitting US President.
You're shocked, right?
While Dorsey may have been in running the company at the start, it’s becoming clear as more internal documentation is released that he was either talked into taking a backseat by 2012 or he was shown he had no real choice in the matter. By 2016 he’d become a figurehead, if he was ever in charge at all.
I also made this observation once the Twitter Files 4.0 were done being released:
In the last 2 days Musk claimed that Roth was the real CEO and then essentially said he's covered in shame for not having dealt with the CSE issue in all the years he was head of Twitter's Trust & Safety, leading to Elon having to get it done in less than 3 weeks with a skeleton crew.
Now he's pointing out that Roth seems to have a weird fixation on age of consent laws.
He seems to be practically DARING Roth to sue him.
By putting Roth out front, Musk encouraged people to begin researching him. It didn’t take long for some eye-opening stuff to emerge.
What has Elon Musk been saying about Roth's priorities in running the Twitter Trust & Safety Council as the 'real' CEO of the company when for all of Roth's time in charge, nobody ever got a handle on the CP/CSE criminal underground trade on the platform?
Why is Jack nowhere to be seen, why does he not even briefly stick his head in the room when these historic discussions about banning a sitting President of the United States are happening?
And he's not there when the decision is made?
Under Twitter’s previous ‘woke’ regime, someone like Yoel Roth was untouchable. He was
A top executive
Jewish
Openly gay
Under the previous circumstances, Elon very publicly and enthusiastically going after a Jewish gay millennial would have provoked a very loud and very large backlash. He’d be branded both an anti-Semite and a homophobe, among other approbations.
But far from bowing to the peer pressure of the woke corporate mob and their pet astro-turfed activists, Musk is going at them head on.
Should be clear by now that Musk isn’t intimidated at all and is pressing forward even though the usual suspects are going to come after him using all their ‘woke’ catchphrases. If Musk could be intimidated, he wouldn’t go after Roth. That he did is sending a message to some people.
Here Comes COVID…
Once the Twitter Files 4.0 thread concluded, I made an observation that turned out to be prescient:
After what I've seen in the last week, I am sensing that we're building to something even bigger with Twitter.
The bad guys are frantically looking for something to kill the momentum, but literally every day Elon and those working with him manage to blow up the news cycle and put new revelations in front of all the normies on Twitter that drive it home.
It's being carefully rolled out in a way that commanders the national spotlight.
They can't stop it.
The years of the former staff shielding CSE networks and the underground CP trade that was going on there is being fully exposed.
The iron-fisted narrative control that resulted in outright election interference in suppressing & shadowbanning candidates running for office.
Twitter staff working hand-in-glove with gov't agencies to drive narrative control for the Democrats & censor political opposition.
I'll bet COVID pandemic stuff is coming, too. Before this is over.
The Fauci Files Are Coming
Late in the night after the Twitter Files 4.0 dropped, Musk began foreshadowing what was coming next.
First, he unleashed a meme in which the Director of the National Institute of Allergies & Infectious Diseases [NIAID] Dr. Anthony Fauci is shown as the Lord of the Rings villain Wormtongue as he beguiles a King Thoden who has Joe Biden’s face.
As if that wasn’t provocative enough, Musk soon followed up by tweeting this:
And as if to make it crystal clear on where he stood when it comes to the lab leak theory origin of the COVID virus - a theory that Fauci played a direct role in trying to banish from the public square - Musk later stated:
Musk was then directly asked if the public would get “the Twitter files on Covid?” and gave his response:
I then commented after seeing that:
You know he’s gonna drop the concrete evidence Fauci was engineering multiple cover ups and censorship campaigns with the help of Twitter’s old regime, right?
About
1. C-19 virus origins as an engineered bioweapon
2. The gain-of-function research paid for with US tax dollars in Wuhan
3. C-19 effective early treatments
4. C-19 experimental mRNA shot dangers and side effects
The woke brigade is already screaming loudly over there because they can see it coming and yet they can’t stop it.
Musk then again affirmed that there would be a new Twitter Files release detailing why Dr. Anthony Fauci should be prosecuted:
Having read Robert Kennedy Jr.’s excellent book “The Real Anthony Fauci, I can say this with almost absolute certainty:
Fauci has spent 40 years overtly blacklisting his critics in the medical science community, wrecking entire careers.
So the chances Little Lord Fauci **wasn’t** directing Twitter staff to specific accounts of doctors & medical scientists contradicting his official -and false - narratives that he wanted banned & censored is 0%.
The amount of information that was censored and suppressed over the past 3 years is truly astonishing.
This is going down in the history books as one of the few times the crimes were just as bad as the cover up.
Fauci played a direct role in a criminal conspiracy in creating a bioweapon that leaked from a lab in Wuhan and went on a worldwide rampage and killed millions.
He and his fellow conspirators then compounded THAT crime against humanity with an even more awful crimes against humanity:
Hiding real cures & treatments to unleash a deadly vaccine regimen on the world.
Almost EVEY SINGLE FAMILY IN AMERICA has been and is being affected by these crimes against humanity.
When the concrete documented evidence is rolled out about how HARD Fauci and his coconspirators worked hand-in-glove with Twitter’s old regime at these coverups of their crimes, a mass awakening event will reach and pass a tipping point.
This is how we get to Nuremberg 2.0. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis may have started the ball rolling on that when he revealed at a medical roundtable on the morning of Tuesday, December 13 that he was asking the Florida Supreme Court to empanel a grand jury to investigate the COVID vaccines and the numerous injuries and deaths they have caused.
But now that they’ve lost control of Twitter and it’s all coming out, the one-stop-messaging-and-narrative-control shop they were using for so many different crises, they’re doomed.
In just the last 24 hours, two of the biggest most well known medical doctors who became front-line critics in this information war against Little Lord Fauci had their Twitter accounts unlocked: Dr. Robert Malone and Dr. Peter McCullough.
Why, its almost as if this is all being timed to….nah, couldn’t be!
The Mainstream Media Is Now Almost Completely Dead; The Fauci Files May Very Well Finish It Off
Imagine the biggest freaking scandal of all time breaks sometime in the next few weeks...it goes viral on Twitter and millions more people **not in the Conservative bubble** notice that the Usual Media Suspects either completely IGNORE IT or only cover it in order to lie about it or dismiss it.
The more times we FORCE them into that situation the WEAKER they get.
They're not getting stronger.
WE'RE GETTING STRONGER.
Their days are truly numbered.
This is an issue MILLIONS OF FAMILIES IN AMERICAN CARE ABOUT. They lost loved ones. They lost their businesses. Their children were made to suffer. This very well could be what breaks the programming at last.
Another key part of breaking the programming just happened on Twitter:
Gettin’ HARD Out Here For A Bot
True. Cernovich is correct.
MOST of the bot traffic on Twitter is driven by a handful of individuals.
And those people had a very bad day.
And Elon is getting this massive bot purge done **after** he fired 2/3rds of the Twitter staff and hundreds more quit in a huff when he introduced a new work ethic at the company calling for harder and longer hours from the employees.
Say, does anybody remember when the former Twitter Executive Board **represented to Musk in official contract negotiations** and then **in a lawsuit in court** that bots made up LESS THAN 5% OF THE PLATFORM'S ACCOUNTS?
Because I sure do.
Elon wiped 1.5 BILLION bot back up accounts as part of one big purge and may have removed billions more earlier.
Elon ain't publicly discussing it right now, but the issue of whether or not Twitter's former Executive Board was telling the truth in the contract negotiations and in their lawsuit against Musk about bots comprising less than 5% of the accounts on Twitter has been answered.
It's clear now that Twitter's board **lied** to Musk in both official contract negotiations and in official court filings in their lawsuit.
Just a question of when HE rolls out the evidence of that.
Everybody who told you the Twitter board had the upper hand in this is going to end up eating crow.
Also remember this column that I wrote where @greggphillips revealed a cool way you can trace where the bot armies are coming from: 3rd party geo fencing/tracking/location services. Yes, they exist.
You can literally BUY social media locations off of phones and it's not hard to spot when 1 small building somewhere supposedly has 500,000 active Twitter accounts coming out of it.
Perceptive comment here.
Shutting down the bot accounts is only PART of what you have to do to get rid of them.
The other half is **spotting what IP addresses are creating them and sending them at you**.
And I'm pretty sure after the big bot purge at the end of November, Musk & his engineering team spent 2 weeks tracking the bot farms ISP's and MAC addresses as they went about reconstituting their bot armies.
And then Musk lowered the boom. He’s not only killing their bots, he’s shutting off their multiple ISP’s and identifying their VPN’s by rooting into the MAC addresses.
FTX Scandal Continues To Grow With Sloppy Boy Wonder’s Arrest
This scandal took an interesting turn.
The day after Sam Bankman-Fried said he didn’t think he’d be arrested…he got arrested.
The hot take on this arrest is that this is a huge blow to transparency because now SBF won’t answer all the TOUGH QUESTIONS the members of our US Congress were supposedly going to ask him when he testified to them remotely from his penthouse in the Bahamas.
Look how effortlessly the narrative segues from "He'll never be arrested!” to "his arrest doesn't mean anything".
I have a different take: we skipped the useless formalities. This goon’s crimes are already well documented and so:
What do you think SBF would have said or admitted to in front of Congress tomorrow? Do you think he'd have flipped on anybody or really revealed anything if he could help it?
He'd have had a lawyer there making SURE he didn't reveal anything.
I've spent over a month seeing the damning evidence of what he did being covered even in the mainstream press.
While **Democrats** were in charge of that Committee, they weren't going to allow any of that evidence to be presented.
Democrats were engineering that whole thing so he could sit there and sob he was some kind of victim who lost control and still doesn't really understand where it all went wrong, etc. etc.
Could Republicans on the Committee have gotten him to stray off that script?
I kind of doubt it.
With Democrats running it nothing much was gonna happen.
And as if to prove my point: Maxine Waters, the current [for a few weeks longer] chair of the House Financial Services Committee, had to be **interrupted when she tried to prematurely end the hearing and get reminded** by R Rep Lance Gooden that the witnesses can be asked questions by committee members.
SBF’s arrest wasn’t the only recent development. Turns out he spent the past few years buying himself cover for his shenanigans with the financial/crypto press.
First thing SBF’s handlers likely did when they were setting all this up back from 2017-2019 was have him buy the silence of most of the media that could’ve exposed FTX/Alameda before the collapse.
Wanna bet in addition to sending billions to the UniParty the last 4 years, SBF was ALSO buying off most crypto/financial reporting outlets with tons of sweet, sweet cash?
Expect to see some variation of this headline several times in the future:
“Turns Out SBF Was Secretly Funding The Crypto/Financial News Outlet [fill in the blank]”
Media complicity in hiding what was going on at FTX is just a new fascinating facet of the ever growing scandal.
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Given that the Twitter files include the admission that Trump's tweets didn't violate Twitter's community standards (inciting violence), and they had to make up some other justification for banning him, IMO that completely screws up the J6 unselect committee's desperate attempt to claim that Trump incited violence and caused an insurrection. Game over.
Great summary Brian.Nailed it !