The COVID-driven centralization of economic power and information control in the hands of a few corporate monopolies poses enduring threats to political freedom.
The danger posed by Mr. Trump was his attempt to bypass the gatekeepers in the media by communicating with the public directly using Twitter. Fortunately, Twitter has now set filters to prevent this from happening again. With any luck, there will be no possibility of future collusion between a President and the citizenry. Democracy, as we know it, has been saved.
Sadly, that is the newest reality.....’Democracy, as we know it”. We now know, for sure, that we can NOT vote them OUT without the approval of the ‘swamp’.
You spelled Facebook wrong. There is a reason Hitlery said she wanted to be in charge of FB not Twitter. Twitter is already under the DNC thumb. FB's lower minions are DNC, but Mark himself is not, I assure you.
Public education is the opium of the people. It’s a drone factory producing meat bags incapable of reason. Of course Donald Trump is a tyrant. Their teachers who are “like really smart” told them so. The professional teleprompter readers also confirm this. And for the especially dim witted, Hollywood follows up with confirmation.
Tyranny is what the left practices. Intolerance of diverse opinions and threats of violence and actual violence from their paramilitary arm, antifa etc.
Tyranny is directly coming from neoliberal, establishment Democrats. To understate, that is not "the left." Indeed, the actual left is the target of much neoliberal repression, including censorship.
Then why were progressives siding with Biden? They hate fascism so much they want to see it come to power? The truth is that corporatism and progressive policies are not that different. And progressives just wanted a slice of that power
Progressives "sided with Biden" (in the sense many voted for him) because they thought he was a better choice than Trump. They were not consciously "voting for fascism." They believed they were voting against it. Part of the point of Glenn's article is that many people don't see the real totalitarianism that we have, and see it instead embodied in Trump. In other words, they mistake the circus for the emperor.
idk then if they couldn't see what was happening and what the biden admin stood for then that should call into question all their ideas, because that's a serious lapse in judgement. Useful idiots
I don't think some people who consider themselves "progressives" making that decision . . . the "lesser of two evils" vote . . . gives me cause to "call into question" all the ideas of a broad group of people that contains those voters.
>>Progressives "sided with Biden" (in the sense many voted for him) because they thought he was a better choice than Trump<<
Exactly. Some like Chomsky and Nathan Robinson detest Biden and all the establishment Dems stand for, but sincerely considered Trump the greater evil. One progressive I know, a research scientist, voted for Biden while retching in a bucket purely out of the belief that Biden is more likely to adhere to sound science in the Covid disaster.
Whether these progressives are right or not, they are not the source of neoliberal authoritarianism and oppose it vehemently.
What you vote for, you support. Whether you hold you nose or retch in a bucket while doing it is irrelevant.
There are exceptions, such as someone being forced to perform an action they find repugnant through coercion, threats to their life or the life of a loved one, etc. But we're talking about voting for goodness' sake, not having someone literally holding a gun to one's head.
They're willfully ignorant! its no secret that the socially acceptable thing to do in progressive circles was to vote and give money to democrats. but it doesn't take a genius in any stretch of the form to see what they were really all about! if a college educated professor couldn't see it, does it make him stupid, a coward, or someone who just doesn't care and is just in it for the likes? Noam chomsky really doesn't see it? come. on. so don't vote if you hate biden so much. but no. most of these people just talk about trump and how evil he is and pretend to be disgusted by biden but they have no real stake in any of this! are their livelihoods affected one way or another? no. somehow there's always a market for useless college degrees in society. they have money, power, are out of touch with most americans, and should just shut up and stop acting so hypocritical all the time. it's getting a little old. these people have done far more harm to our society than anything.
" Biden is more likely to adhere to sound science in the Covid disaster." is a really questionable opinion! Biden's managers have indicated Dr Fauci will be his chief advisor on Covid. Fauci has limited background for this, and lied repeatedly over the past year, even admitting this in a TV interview this past week.
President Trump has done an excellent job in dealing with the virus, despite constant attacks from the Democrats. He worked with leaders of key companies to a) get needed equipment produced and distributed (even Gov. Cuomo praised President Trump for this in mid-April) and b) get the vaccines developed and tested and approved in record time. He recognized the need for states and localities to set their own policies for protecting their residents rather than requiring a counterproductive national lockdown.
In fact the death per million rate for the U.S. was ranked 8th highest among all countries this summer, and is today ranked 14th highest, having death rates that now are lower the the U.K., the Czech Republic, Spain and Bulgaria, that were lower earlier in the year.
"President Trump has done an excellent job in dealing with the virus"
A retired virologist who is also a Glenn fan believes that is rank nonsense; I've seen evidence this is the scientific consensus. (As a Michigander, I was furious and aghast when Trump irrresponsibly tweeted: "Liberate Michigan" in response to our governor's public health orders.) But either way, many progressives who held their vomit down and voted for Biden did so because of Covid, not because progressives don't detest neoliberal authoritarianism.
"retching in a bucket" - was it mentioned on a rider accompanying the vote? Or something like "this is not for you, actually, just against the other guy/girl"?
To this my argument I was once told ballots did not come with riders!
But let's say they did. Would Biden (or whoever) care? Of course not! "You sucker gave me the vote and you can shove your opinion up your ass".
My question is why don't people understand it? Simply not voting is a vote - a vote saying "I do not have a choice". I venture to say this is a large portion of non-voting public (I am one of them). Voting "with a rider" is just continuing to support the system.
I still can’t believe that people think 81 million people voted for a career grifter that didn’t campaign and the few times he spoke showed clear signs of dementia. Biden miraculously got millions of votes only in the handful of Democrat election run swing cities where Republican poll watchers were harassed, threatened and prohibited from doing their job, allowing millions of ballots to be adjudicated without oversight. Republicans won 27 of 27 toss up congressional seats yet Biden won in these same areas? Seriously, how does anyone with a brain believe this actually happened?
Progressives are part of the democratic party and support it. The DNC and the corporatists support many of the same mostly social policies important to progressives. The greens have an out, perhaps, but the left certainly doesn't.
There is a party without an official name that represents the DNC and RNC elites. Some have dubbed it the "Uniparty". It supports the kleptocratic order and the crony capitalism of Bush-Obama. The Uniparty sees the future as Communist China and the fascist forces of Wall Street and Large Multinationals as the ox to hitch its wagon to.
Until people see this reality and stop talking in terms of "Democrats" and "Republicans", these forces will have us right where they want us, divided, ignorant, and powerless.
the green new deal ahh the next big market for corporatists. enjoy bankrupting millions of americans reliant on affordable energy while private interests get richer
If, arguendo, your description of the GND is accurate -- and corresponds to what AOC et al. propose -- it remains true that establishment Dems oppose it, and progressives favor it. Progressives are not the DNC or establishment Dems. The DNC is *not* the left.
Theyre part of the big tent party that the DNC is. They run as democrat. Just because they answer to different special interests doesn't mean they don't both team up to crush any and all opposition to the leftist/democrat narrative, in policy or culture. They both hold power. And they're both responsible for this mess. So are the NeoCons, maybe them the most. But there's virtually no difference between the neocons and the establishment dems anymore. They all don't care about the average American, they all push horrible policies that either do nothing or are actively destructive. So let them squabble among themselves over which ethnic group gets to serve as interior decorator to the biden admin . They're two different strands of corrupt elites, both now have power and are too busy chasing their own egos and trying to centralize power.
I have an idea!! Instead of looking at WHY the costs are so high and trying to reduce them (aka competition), lets just subsidize this totally failed system with our tax dollars! That’ll fix it!
Cuba provides free, state-of-the-art health care and education to anyone in-country, regardless of state of origin.
Americans of wealth manage travel to Cuba for free health care.
How do those filthy Commies manage?
Canada is sliding down the slippery slope with Big Brother, USA, but, like Cuba, we don't turn away American patients, regardless of insurance or pre-existing condition BS.
Because it's utterly true. Antifa, BLM, Environmental Alarmism, Radical Feminism, Islamophilia, Open Borders & unchecked immigration, and a form of student debt cancellation, and internet censorship if favor of these causes. So no totally free university and no MFA, but you're more on board with the DNC than not.
The notion that the DNC is onboard with whatever you imagine "antifa" to be, or with any feminism that could be considered "radical" -- and all the rest of your rightwing framing -- is false, having no correspondence to reality.
well they ignore the existence of antifa, their centrism doesn't allow them to actively endorse domestic terrorism but their willful ignorance allows it to grow.
Since when did you become the only authority on the left? Anyone left of my thinking is the "left". Anyone to the right of my thinking is "the right". This is known as personal opinion. You ought to study the differences of opinion and fact because it seems like you often present one as the other.
Its more building the idea of community without dissent. The entire DNC platform of "you can't hang out with us if you dont think exactly like we do" while then preaching tolerance for outliers out of the other side of their mouth when it suits their interests. Questioning the elite will get you called a Russian agent like they did to Gabbard.
The Democrats are corrupt, but their favourite doomsday scenarios, all of which require us to give more power to central government and big corporations, are all real.
The Republicans are corrupt, but their favourite doomsday scenarios, all of which require us to give more power to central government and big corporations, are all real.
The Quangos, dead billionaire foundations, and think tanks are corrupt, but their favourite doomsday scenarios, all of which require us to give more power to central government and big corporations, are all real.
The corporations and their billionaire shareholders are corrupt, but their favourite doomsday scenarios, all of which require us to give more power to central government and big corporations, are all real.
For those of us who have functioning memories to go with functioning brains, for whom every new day is not [[current year]] zero day:
-I remember when nuclear power was going to kill us all
-I remember when nuclear war was going to kill us all
-I remember when the Chinese were going to kill us all
-I remember when the Russians were going to kill us all
-I remember when running out of oil was going to kill us all
-I remember when too much oil was going to kill us all
-I remember when Fukushima was going to kill us all
-I remember when the Gulf oil spill was going to kill us all
-I remember when rocks from space were going to kill us all
-I remember when polyunsaturated fats were going to kill us all
-I remember when AIDS was going to kill us all
-I remember when bird flu was going to kill us all
-I remember when swine flu was going to kill us all
-I remember when bat flu was going to kill millions of Americans but somehow, even though the official tally could only reach a quarter of a million by administratively re-categorizing motor accidents and gunshot wounds as bat flu deaths, and using a fraudulent test procedure that produces between 70 to 90% false positives to produce an idiotic "case pandemic" with no associated deaths trend, the current Administration is a failure because we're not all dead yet.
Frankly, I long for a journalist with both civil liberties extremism, pattern recognition, AND deep cynicism, but Glenn is still one of the few I know of who has the first two out of the three.
Don't forget the Trans-Alaska pipeline was going to cause untold ecological disasters, but in reality never had a single non-sabotatge issue. I've actually worked in environmental waste and the big DNC areas like Pittsburgh and surrounding areas generate far more toxic things into the ground and oh by the way half the Superfund sites are STILL not clean.
The big existential threats are all concocted to garner more power and money while real problems are ignored because they're not important enough. It's another kind of the "lesser of two evils" con.
"The big existential threats are all concocted," yeah right, and is the ongoing Holocene extinction "concocted" too? There's an enormous amount of information and data you're overlooking, and you're making a serious mistake in thinking existential threat and the consequences of "ecological disaster" happen overnight just because a small number of events in an irrelevantly tiny period of time that you can personally recollect didn't "kill us all" instantaneously. There's a reason the geologic time scale is used instead of your memory when talking about species going extinct or the biosphere facing disaster and imminent collapse, and there's a difference between "cynicism" and ignorance that can trick you into confidence on subjects you know very little about.
No one in power is interested in "existential threats" in the first place. Discussion is mostly incompatible with modern systems of government and economic growth. Research rarely gets funded and mostly by mistake, like some Clathrate gun hypothesis research being a poor investment of Big Oil. Thinking that concern with them leads to "real problems" being ignored makes no sense when it's those problems that lead to existential threats; discussing existential threats leads to nothing but attention brought to real problems that effect everyone and how we live on a daily basis (and even if they didn't, by definition existential risks impact everyone).
funny misdirection and with such fabricated drama no less, the giving of "... more power to central government and big corporations, are all real" and was the work product of the Republican Party and conservative ideology going back to the end of WWII.
Fabulous essay Glenn. Keep up the great work and I'm proud to be giving you a bit of money each month. And thank you for taking care of so many people and dogs in Brazil. You are a real hero of mine. :-)
ANOTHER opinion piece, Glenn? No new news reported?
I certainly agree with your perspective, but DUH!
How about INVESTIGATING and REPORTING real news, for once.
How about INVESTIGATING and REPORTING on all the shocking evidence contained in HUNDREDS of affidavits from election workers presenting evidence of ELECTION FRAUD when the MSM claims there is "no evidence" ?
How about INVESTIGATING and REPORTING on the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop ?
I’m not the person to subscribe to with an expectation that you then can dictate what I write about. I appreciate your passion for this topic but “journalism” isn’t defined as “writing about whatever Jim F. thinks is most important.” There’s a lot of journalism in this article and the others you’ve condemned as “just opinion.” Election fraud isn’t a topic I’ve ever reported on so I’m not sure why you expected that I would suddenly make this my main focus. Nobody can be an expert in every topic and those who try usually produce very mediocre journalism, or worse. There are always many issues deserving journalistic attention, not just the one that has you most excited. I happen to think the growing monopolistic power of tech giants and their use of it to censor, as well as their alliance with the Democratic Party, is quite important and deserves journalistic attention.
It's a great article, Glenn. I'm sending the link to my college age son who has sadly bought into the leftist strain of authoritarianism and is totally naive about its dangers.
Jim F. is wrong. Your article is super. Also, I am in for $60 ($5*12), not $50 like Jim F., so my opinion has more weight on your personal K Street here... Wait, I need to read your piece again.
Mr. Greenwald, you are a big voice. Whereas our voices may, collectively, have some effect on the Censorship Gods (and I doubt it), only the big voices will be readily heard - immediately, and effectively. Like yours. The First Amendment, original thought, freethinking, the marketplace of ideas, freedom itself, and everything else that sounds of melodramatic overplay when we talk about this oligarchical/authoritarian censorship, is at stake. It is not possible to overstate this - it's not possible to be too dramatic. This is a war. If we do not have warriors like you to fight it at the front lines, we are all doomed. This has never happened before. There has always been a left, center and right. We could always choose what we wanted to read, what we wanted to learn. Not now. The internet and cyberspace giveth and taketh away. Just when we have such a vast milieu from which to obtain our information, some clan of the Grand Censor decides for us that it is only as "vast" as it wants it to be. So, some snobs and arm-chair quarterbacks will sling "criticism" at you for not finding a Mark Felt or a Daniel Ellsberg every day, as if they are standing around parking garages everywhere smoking cigarettes in the shadows and waiting for some democracy-loving gumshoe to come along and just ask for inside information. I'm glad you don't buy into that pressure. Let's face it, Ed Snowden found you (though, you earned/deserved being found). The right sources find the right reporter, and it's not necessarily the other way around - except, largely, by chance. But, let's face another thing - Tom Fitton and John Solomon can't write opinion. You are the quintessential all-around quarterback, if you will - you can run and you can pass. Keep fighting censorship, keep fighting crime think, keep reminding the MSM lemmings and automatons that the masses want thinking to stay free. Censorship not only shuts down one person's free speech, it prevents all of us from putting ammunition in our thought weaponry. Censorship inhibits the development of our own thoughts - even if we care never to say one word out loud. Censorship will embolden orthodox conformity, and the pathology we are seeing now will worsen exponentially. The eunuch bureaucrats in D.C. can't stop it (Section 230 is a straw man, it's not what we are worried about, like putting a bandaid on a machete sticking out of your skull). Only people like Greenwald (and his adherents - us) can stop it. Like Huxley said in Brave New World Revisited, "[b]ut the nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more." Censorship will breed censors, and indoctrinated automatons - who will turn out more censors, etc. It's now a vicious cycle. Who would have predicted this scourge to have reached such subterranean depths in so little time? Humans like to be on the side of winners, humans are weak. Censorship is to the free brain as hemlock was to Socrates' wisdom.
Wait- Glenn are you suggesting that you’re not a 20 person strong team of investigative reporters collaborating under a single name? ;-)
There is a point to be made there however. There was some great investigative talent at the TI (before they were purged: https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/layoffs-the-intercept.php), and I’d love to know your thoughts on reclaiming that type of collaboration. I’d also love to know your take on the dynamics with investigative reporters at TI in general. What actually happened there? You’ve mentioned that there are still plenty of great reporters at TI- and I’m inclined to agree.
The question was how Mr. Greenwald intends to collaborate with people doing the investigative component. He knows a lot of first rate sleuths that can dig through the muck and extract the real story.
Greenwald is right: he can’t be an expert on all things all the time. That’s where collaboration is useful.
Mr. Greenwald should keep doing what he's doing and not change anything. A journalist should not be beholden to anybody, whether corporations, readers, peers or colleagues. Just the truth and whatever it is that drives him. If another Snowden story drops into his lap Im sure we will hear about it.
Sorry Glenn, but it's a leap to ascribe the motives that you do to me. Giving examples of what I would consider reporting in no way allows one to conclude that I'm attempting to hold you hostage for $50. I could say your comment was a cheap shot intended to virtue signal your "journalistic independence". I could also say the reason you lost control of the Guardian and were forced to move on is because you sold out for the almighty dollar. But then, in both instances, I would be making the same mistake you just did.
Investigating my past comments on this site will allow you to conclude that I have consistently complained about the dearth of reporting and the nonstop opinion pieces. I agree with your opinions, and find that you do a good job piecing together previously established facts in a fair and accurate manner, and putting things in proper context. Good on you. But really, what value does this add other than enlightening a few food bags out there who take liberty, freedom, free speech, democracy, personal privacy, etc., etc. for granted? Because a lot of people like myself recognize how fragile these things are, and have come to the same conclusions you do long before you write your pieces. Doesn't exactly move the ball down the field.
I'm looking for journalism. The kind where reporters investigate, use their sources to break and verify new facts, and report them to the public in a fair and accurate manner. I don't need reporters to rehash existing facts and tell me what I am supposed to think about them. I can think for myself. And there are already a ton of "reporters" today that already, as you have recognized yourself. Take a look at Judicial Watch or Project Veritas for examples of reporters doing reporting.
Please consider my subscription fee as my thanks for your excellent work on the Snowden revelations. Hope one day a break some more news.
The most important story out there right now is the news itself. Mainstream media won't cover itself, that would require an honest, independent reporter and corporate media doesn't have any. Please keep covering this story, I appreciate real news.
It really is. I hope people understand just how dangerous the self destruction of the MSM is to our Republic. Their willingness to jettison all ethics and integrity, basically every aspect of true journalism, is something we can’t come back from.
Hard to believe you are someone who has sought out left wing news sites in the past, because very often what they provide is a different perspective on mainstream media, corporately owned, which too often lack any sense of validity. It's the right time to access what has been going on during these last 4 crazy years, the crazy being caused by a lack of honest, and objective reporting in the media, since making money usurps truth.
One more thing, Glenn. You write: "Nobody can be an expert in every topic and those who try usually produce very mediocre journalism, or worse."
What a load of crap. As if journalists don't have relationships with experts to guide them through issues they are not experts in themselves. If journalists have to be experts in what they write about, then they would never write about anything.
You yourself made this argument in a previous comment: "This article took a lot of research, interviews, and investigation in order to write properly."
Starting to realize that I have given you a lot more respect for your cognitive and reasoning skills than you deserve.
Where's your blog/page? I'd like to check out your journalistic skills. I assume you have them, since you criticize Glenn's so freely. Your credibility must be enormous! Please put a link in a reply so I can check you out.
Oh you're so right, I'm silly, because I have a sense of humor, enjoy utilizing sarcasm (a form of humor) to prick the balloon of fatuous self importance, and enjoy troll baiting. Silly, silly me.
I simply disagree that Glenn is doing a poor job. You are entitled to your opinion, Jim, but it is simply an opinion, and at any rate, it's impossible for anyone to please and meet the expectations of absolutely everyone who may purchase their work/services.
I could suffer your tone, being full of yourself. However, the suggestion to what investigate reveals your agenda, which is not about journalism. And no, I have not voted for a Democrat for a long time.
I don't agree that Glenn's sole job here is to simply report the facts on this or that topic. His opinions and assessments of prevailing facts are every bit as important as simply uncovering important tidbits of news. I do not only want to know about important facts, but also *why* in Glenn's thinking they are so important in the first place. I pay to see pieces like this one from Glenn as much as I do the type of pieces you requested.
Don't you think it's interesting how he avoids the big issues, like election fraud and the man-made origin of SARS_Covid-2. These are MASSIVE stories, the mainstream media (i.e., propaganda arm of the Democrats) won't touch. Where is GG on these? CRICKETS. Bottom line is Glenn is a pussy who phones it in, telling people like you what you want to hear, for $$$.
As Glenn himself noted, he cannot be expected to have an expertise on every big issue, or to agree with every subscriber as to which issues are more demanding of his time and research. Also, I would think that if Glenn had no courage, he would not have made that expose on corruption in Brazilian politics while actually living in Brazil. And if $$$ was his main motivation for tackling this or that topic, I think he would have stayed at The Intercept and aligned himself with establishment Democrats.
Sounds to me like some BS justification for his little scam money-making venture of a gutless journalist. I would expect a guy like him to take on the biggest issues which are crying out for reporters to investigate. Huge disappointment.
I’ve admired your incredible bravery over the last few months, but couldn’t quite bring myself to subscribe because, being libertarian/conservative, my views are opposite yours on many important issues. Then I woke up this morning and realized that it wasn’t a bad dream, & I am now living in a country not much different than CCP China and it’s only going to get worse. So $50/year is my small way of lighting a candle to curse the ever increasing darkness. Thank you Glenn.
But I thought my $50 guaranteed my own personal journalist? No?
In all seriousness though, thank you for all that you do. Your dedication to not only your craft, but your integrity, is rare these days unfortunately.
Lots of ways for people to get attention, and this is one way. Look how much attention journalists received in being critical of Trump. Some of us pick up bad habits.
content is driven by audience expectations in modern day media and is much of the reason for increasing polarization...it is all about eye balls and the bottom line.
Google's advertising analytics is the largest threat to the integrity of our Constitutional democratic republic.
Yep, but I'm pretty sure he has made this comment before, and he may very well have been the one I tried to console, really, and he's back again, but with a response from Greenwald. If he has been on left wing sites these are the types of articles one reads, and they're very interesting and informative. I'm glad Greenwald published this article because he's also bucking his left wing colleagues who have often referenced Trump as a fascist.
If you saw a duck with your own eyes it's probably a duck, if you saw the "duck" on CNN it might be a chicken or a T-Rex. Reality and corporate media have nothing to do with each other.
"content is driven by audience expectations in modern day media"
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News networks are owned by giant corporate conglomerates. The money earned by the news network is peanuts to the corporate conglomerate. They use the media like a PR firm to get the corporate message out. It's not driven by "eyeballs", they don't care we want, they are in the brainwashing business.
Excellent point, well made. People don't comprehend this, generally; they are still stuck in the 50s and 60s when journalism really was being done in (some) newsrooms. One of the most important lessons I got in my college Media class (first class of the first semester, not planned but perfectly done to leave a lasting impression on me!) was that the MSM is owned by corporations that are beyond gigantic. They do indeed use the 'news' as propaganda, as a great commercial and camouflaged PR.
Any naive journalistic aspirations I might have had died on the day CNN launched.
LOL. Glenn, maybe you should INVESTIGATE and REPORT on the masses of STUPID people in this country who make authoritarianism POSSIBLE because they CANNOT think nor can they form LOGICAL ARGUMENTS.
If there was widespread election fraud, it was covered up well. Eliminating the voter verification process (with sloppy mail in voting rules) eliminated the ability to properly audit the results and detect fraud. Correcting this must be done legislatively. The judiciary won't defend democracy, they are more likely attack it because it undermines their own power. The ruling class despises democracy, it's up to the informed public to bring it back. Greenwald is trying to inform the public, and he's doing an excellent job.
How did this man do this? Well...he "added fraudulent votes to the machines at his polling place by ducking into booths and manually voting as quickly as possible, then adding those fraudulent votes to his totals and falsely certified that they were accurate."
The second article you link to is about a former Judge of Elections in Philadelphia who was convicted of electoral fraud in primary elections in 2014, 2015, and 2016. The first article is about the Election Board in another Pennsylvania county (Luzerne) certifying the general election results of 2020. There's no connection between the subjects of those two articles.
The connection is the same county, the same DNC control of elections, and the evidence I cited proves there has been shadiness there for years. I lived in Philadelphia for 6 years. Have you? If you have you know that city has been crooked since well before even Angelo Bruno.
Its clear there are people who will commit election fraud if given the opportunity. Computer voting and tabulating presents an opportunity to change millions of votes in an instant. Unverified mail in voting also presents the opportunity for widespread fraud. It should all be done with pen and paper in person.
The same county? One article was about Philadelphia and the other was about Luzerne County. I don't doubt that politicians in both places are shady - most politicians are shady in my opinion. That's not evidence that the Luzerne election decision was fraudulent. Furthermore, neither article stated or implied that the Judge of Elections who was recently convicted of election fraud in 2014, 2015, and 2016 had a role in the 2020 general election.
I would surprised to learn that there was not some degree of electoral fraud in the recent election, but specific allegations should be supported by specific evidence, not general assertions about corrupt politicians.
Seriously, this is the only place putting out anything readable right now. Shut the fuck up and pony up the $150 founders money as you clearly need to be more vested not less..
The danger posed by Mr. Trump was his attempt to bypass the gatekeepers in the media by communicating with the public directly using Twitter. Fortunately, Twitter has now set filters to prevent this from happening again. With any luck, there will be no possibility of future collusion between a President and the citizenry. Democracy, as we know it, has been saved.
Sadly, that is the newest reality.....’Democracy, as we know it”. We now know, for sure, that we can NOT vote them OUT without the approval of the ‘swamp’.
I wish I could say you're wrong. Alas . . .
NoSuchCommentator, well put! ⭐️
You spelled Facebook wrong. There is a reason Hitlery said she wanted to be in charge of FB not Twitter. Twitter is already under the DNC thumb. FB's lower minions are DNC, but Mark himself is not, I assure you.
Bravo 😁
Public education is the opium of the people. It’s a drone factory producing meat bags incapable of reason. Of course Donald Trump is a tyrant. Their teachers who are “like really smart” told them so. The professional teleprompter readers also confirm this. And for the especially dim witted, Hollywood follows up with confirmation.
Tyranny is what the left practices. Intolerance of diverse opinions and threats of violence and actual violence from their paramilitary arm, antifa etc.
"Tyranny is what the left practices."
No.
Did you read the above article?
Tyranny is directly coming from neoliberal, establishment Democrats. To understate, that is not "the left." Indeed, the actual left is the target of much neoliberal repression, including censorship.
Then why were progressives siding with Biden? They hate fascism so much they want to see it come to power? The truth is that corporatism and progressive policies are not that different. And progressives just wanted a slice of that power
Progressives "sided with Biden" (in the sense many voted for him) because they thought he was a better choice than Trump. They were not consciously "voting for fascism." They believed they were voting against it. Part of the point of Glenn's article is that many people don't see the real totalitarianism that we have, and see it instead embodied in Trump. In other words, they mistake the circus for the emperor.
idk then if they couldn't see what was happening and what the biden admin stood for then that should call into question all their ideas, because that's a serious lapse in judgement. Useful idiots
I don't think some people who consider themselves "progressives" making that decision . . . the "lesser of two evils" vote . . . gives me cause to "call into question" all the ideas of a broad group of people that contains those voters.
>>Progressives "sided with Biden" (in the sense many voted for him) because they thought he was a better choice than Trump<<
Exactly. Some like Chomsky and Nathan Robinson detest Biden and all the establishment Dems stand for, but sincerely considered Trump the greater evil. One progressive I know, a research scientist, voted for Biden while retching in a bucket purely out of the belief that Biden is more likely to adhere to sound science in the Covid disaster.
Whether these progressives are right or not, they are not the source of neoliberal authoritarianism and oppose it vehemently.
What you vote for, you support. Whether you hold you nose or retch in a bucket while doing it is irrelevant.
There are exceptions, such as someone being forced to perform an action they find repugnant through coercion, threats to their life or the life of a loved one, etc. But we're talking about voting for goodness' sake, not having someone literally holding a gun to one's head.
They're willfully ignorant! its no secret that the socially acceptable thing to do in progressive circles was to vote and give money to democrats. but it doesn't take a genius in any stretch of the form to see what they were really all about! if a college educated professor couldn't see it, does it make him stupid, a coward, or someone who just doesn't care and is just in it for the likes? Noam chomsky really doesn't see it? come. on. so don't vote if you hate biden so much. but no. most of these people just talk about trump and how evil he is and pretend to be disgusted by biden but they have no real stake in any of this! are their livelihoods affected one way or another? no. somehow there's always a market for useless college degrees in society. they have money, power, are out of touch with most americans, and should just shut up and stop acting so hypocritical all the time. it's getting a little old. these people have done far more harm to our society than anything.
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" Biden is more likely to adhere to sound science in the Covid disaster." is a really questionable opinion! Biden's managers have indicated Dr Fauci will be his chief advisor on Covid. Fauci has limited background for this, and lied repeatedly over the past year, even admitting this in a TV interview this past week.
President Trump has done an excellent job in dealing with the virus, despite constant attacks from the Democrats. He worked with leaders of key companies to a) get needed equipment produced and distributed (even Gov. Cuomo praised President Trump for this in mid-April) and b) get the vaccines developed and tested and approved in record time. He recognized the need for states and localities to set their own policies for protecting their residents rather than requiring a counterproductive national lockdown.
In fact the death per million rate for the U.S. was ranked 8th highest among all countries this summer, and is today ranked 14th highest, having death rates that now are lower the the U.K., the Czech Republic, Spain and Bulgaria, that were lower earlier in the year.
"President Trump has done an excellent job in dealing with the virus"
A retired virologist who is also a Glenn fan believes that is rank nonsense; I've seen evidence this is the scientific consensus. (As a Michigander, I was furious and aghast when Trump irrresponsibly tweeted: "Liberate Michigan" in response to our governor's public health orders.) But either way, many progressives who held their vomit down and voted for Biden did so because of Covid, not because progressives don't detest neoliberal authoritarianism.
"retching in a bucket" - was it mentioned on a rider accompanying the vote? Or something like "this is not for you, actually, just against the other guy/girl"?
To this my argument I was once told ballots did not come with riders!
But let's say they did. Would Biden (or whoever) care? Of course not! "You sucker gave me the vote and you can shove your opinion up your ass".
My question is why don't people understand it? Simply not voting is a vote - a vote saying "I do not have a choice". I venture to say this is a large portion of non-voting public (I am one of them). Voting "with a rider" is just continuing to support the system.
I still can’t believe that people think 81 million people voted for a career grifter that didn’t campaign and the few times he spoke showed clear signs of dementia. Biden miraculously got millions of votes only in the handful of Democrat election run swing cities where Republican poll watchers were harassed, threatened and prohibited from doing their job, allowing millions of ballots to be adjudicated without oversight. Republicans won 27 of 27 toss up congressional seats yet Biden won in these same areas? Seriously, how does anyone with a brain believe this actually happened?
I literally cannot roll my eyes anymore than I can after reading this post.
Good thing you can touch-type.
Trump obeyed (whom?) and no longer speaks of hydroxychloroquine.
A mere lame-duck puppet, betrayed and rendered inert by duopoly.
The Left/Right fascist state periodically switches insertion from any incumbent's posterior, that the other "side" might wash up.
Progressives are part of the democratic party and support it. The DNC and the corporatists support many of the same mostly social policies important to progressives. The greens have an out, perhaps, but the left certainly doesn't.
There is a party without an official name that represents the DNC and RNC elites. Some have dubbed it the "Uniparty". It supports the kleptocratic order and the crony capitalism of Bush-Obama. The Uniparty sees the future as Communist China and the fascist forces of Wall Street and Large Multinationals as the ox to hitch its wagon to.
Until people see this reality and stop talking in terms of "Democrats" and "Republicans", these forces will have us right where they want us, divided, ignorant, and powerless.
"The DNC and the corporatists support many of the same mostly social policies important to progressives. "
That is utterly false. Medicare for all? Across the board student debt cancellation? Free college and trade school? A liveable wage? A Green New Deal?
Establishment Dems ardently oppose all those things.
the green new deal ahh the next big market for corporatists. enjoy bankrupting millions of americans reliant on affordable energy while private interests get richer
BuT iT wORkED sO WeLL fOR SoLaR COmpAnieS!
If, arguendo, your description of the GND is accurate -- and corresponds to what AOC et al. propose -- it remains true that establishment Dems oppose it, and progressives favor it. Progressives are not the DNC or establishment Dems. The DNC is *not* the left.
Theyre part of the big tent party that the DNC is. They run as democrat. Just because they answer to different special interests doesn't mean they don't both team up to crush any and all opposition to the leftist/democrat narrative, in policy or culture. They both hold power. And they're both responsible for this mess. So are the NeoCons, maybe them the most. But there's virtually no difference between the neocons and the establishment dems anymore. They all don't care about the average American, they all push horrible policies that either do nothing or are actively destructive. So let them squabble among themselves over which ethnic group gets to serve as interior decorator to the biden admin . They're two different strands of corrupt elites, both now have power and are too busy chasing their own egos and trying to centralize power.
Again, 0 citations, nothing but opinion passed off as irrefutable fact. You should go work for Mother Jones tbh.
so you are one of those libertarians opposed to market forces.
Healthcare costs are insanely high
College tuition is unaffordable
I have an idea!! Instead of looking at WHY the costs are so high and trying to reduce them (aka competition), lets just subsidize this totally failed system with our tax dollars! That’ll fix it!
Stumble into a Newark, NJ hospital ER, as a black male, or, anyone lacking insurance....
Cuba provides free, state-of-the-art health care and education to anyone in-country, regardless of state of origin.
Americans of wealth manage travel to Cuba for free health care.
How do those filthy Commies manage?
Canada is sliding down the slippery slope with Big Brother, USA, but, like Cuba, we don't turn away American patients, regardless of insurance or pre-existing condition BS.
Or, Canada....
Because it's utterly true. Antifa, BLM, Environmental Alarmism, Radical Feminism, Islamophilia, Open Borders & unchecked immigration, and a form of student debt cancellation, and internet censorship if favor of these causes. So no totally free university and no MFA, but you're more on board with the DNC than not.
"but you're more on board with the DNC than not."
The notion that the DNC is onboard with whatever you imagine "antifa" to be, or with any feminism that could be considered "radical" -- and all the rest of your rightwing framing -- is false, having no correspondence to reality.
"Islamophilia?" Really? pffft
well they ignore the existence of antifa, their centrism doesn't allow them to actively endorse domestic terrorism but their willful ignorance allows it to grow.
Have you ever cited a single, non-opinion piece to support any of the things you have posted in these comments? Legitimate question.
Then who are these alleged 81 million people that allegedly voted for Biden?
Since when did you become the only authority on the left? Anyone left of my thinking is the "left". Anyone to the right of my thinking is "the right". This is known as personal opinion. You ought to study the differences of opinion and fact because it seems like you often present one as the other.
Its more building the idea of community without dissent. The entire DNC platform of "you can't hang out with us if you dont think exactly like we do" while then preaching tolerance for outliers out of the other side of their mouth when it suits their interests. Questioning the elite will get you called a Russian agent like they did to Gabbard.
The Democrats are corrupt, but their favourite doomsday scenarios, all of which require us to give more power to central government and big corporations, are all real.
The Republicans are corrupt, but their favourite doomsday scenarios, all of which require us to give more power to central government and big corporations, are all real.
The Quangos, dead billionaire foundations, and think tanks are corrupt, but their favourite doomsday scenarios, all of which require us to give more power to central government and big corporations, are all real.
The corporations and their billionaire shareholders are corrupt, but their favourite doomsday scenarios, all of which require us to give more power to central government and big corporations, are all real.
For those of us who have functioning memories to go with functioning brains, for whom every new day is not [[current year]] zero day:
-I remember when nuclear power was going to kill us all
-I remember when nuclear war was going to kill us all
-I remember when the Chinese were going to kill us all
-I remember when the Russians were going to kill us all
-I remember when running out of oil was going to kill us all
-I remember when too much oil was going to kill us all
-I remember when Fukushima was going to kill us all
-I remember when the Gulf oil spill was going to kill us all
-I remember when rocks from space were going to kill us all
-I remember when polyunsaturated fats were going to kill us all
-I remember when AIDS was going to kill us all
-I remember when bird flu was going to kill us all
-I remember when swine flu was going to kill us all
-I remember when bat flu was going to kill millions of Americans but somehow, even though the official tally could only reach a quarter of a million by administratively re-categorizing motor accidents and gunshot wounds as bat flu deaths, and using a fraudulent test procedure that produces between 70 to 90% false positives to produce an idiotic "case pandemic" with no associated deaths trend, the current Administration is a failure because we're not all dead yet.
Frankly, I long for a journalist with both civil liberties extremism, pattern recognition, AND deep cynicism, but Glenn is still one of the few I know of who has the first two out of the three.
Merry fucking Christmas everyone.
Don't forget the Trans-Alaska pipeline was going to cause untold ecological disasters, but in reality never had a single non-sabotatge issue. I've actually worked in environmental waste and the big DNC areas like Pittsburgh and surrounding areas generate far more toxic things into the ground and oh by the way half the Superfund sites are STILL not clean.
The big existential threats are all concocted to garner more power and money while real problems are ignored because they're not important enough. It's another kind of the "lesser of two evils" con.
Yep, the lizards love to use misdirection.
Luckily for us, synapsids might all join the fossil record if the end-Holocene manages to be as bad as the end-Permian!
"The big existential threats are all concocted," yeah right, and is the ongoing Holocene extinction "concocted" too? There's an enormous amount of information and data you're overlooking, and you're making a serious mistake in thinking existential threat and the consequences of "ecological disaster" happen overnight just because a small number of events in an irrelevantly tiny period of time that you can personally recollect didn't "kill us all" instantaneously. There's a reason the geologic time scale is used instead of your memory when talking about species going extinct or the biosphere facing disaster and imminent collapse, and there's a difference between "cynicism" and ignorance that can trick you into confidence on subjects you know very little about.
No one in power is interested in "existential threats" in the first place. Discussion is mostly incompatible with modern systems of government and economic growth. Research rarely gets funded and mostly by mistake, like some Clathrate gun hypothesis research being a poor investment of Big Oil. Thinking that concern with them leads to "real problems" being ignored makes no sense when it's those problems that lead to existential threats; discussing existential threats leads to nothing but attention brought to real problems that effect everyone and how we live on a daily basis (and even if they didn't, by definition existential risks impact everyone).
Who is Oceania at war with today...
funny misdirection and with such fabricated drama no less, the giving of "... more power to central government and big corporations, are all real" and was the work product of the Republican Party and conservative ideology going back to the end of WWII.
Open the other eye, for fuck's sake.
"I wrote the damn bill!"
--Joe Biden.
more misdirection and fabricated drama...make your point or shove the fuck off
Go fuck yourself.
TE O’Conner is a leftist troll who got triggered by Glen’s article. Just ignore xir.
ad hominem noted and your admission to having written bull shit screed is appreciated.
do have a blessed day and know I will say a prayer for your misbegotten soul though I fear it will make little difference when accounts are settled.
You're a funny man.
Just FYI: "go fuck yourself" is not ad hominem.
On the plus side, you did spell it right.
Fucksake.
Well since you posted it here with 0 cited evidence it must be 100% true.
Fabulous essay Glenn. Keep up the great work and I'm proud to be giving you a bit of money each month. And thank you for taking care of so many people and dogs in Brazil. You are a real hero of mine. :-)
ANOTHER opinion piece, Glenn? No new news reported?
I certainly agree with your perspective, but DUH!
How about INVESTIGATING and REPORTING real news, for once.
How about INVESTIGATING and REPORTING on all the shocking evidence contained in HUNDREDS of affidavits from election workers presenting evidence of ELECTION FRAUD when the MSM claims there is "no evidence" ?
How about INVESTIGATING and REPORTING on the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop ?
Honestly, I can't believe I paid $50 for this BS.
I’m not the person to subscribe to with an expectation that you then can dictate what I write about. I appreciate your passion for this topic but “journalism” isn’t defined as “writing about whatever Jim F. thinks is most important.” There’s a lot of journalism in this article and the others you’ve condemned as “just opinion.” Election fraud isn’t a topic I’ve ever reported on so I’m not sure why you expected that I would suddenly make this my main focus. Nobody can be an expert in every topic and those who try usually produce very mediocre journalism, or worse. There are always many issues deserving journalistic attention, not just the one that has you most excited. I happen to think the growing monopolistic power of tech giants and their use of it to censor, as well as their alliance with the Democratic Party, is quite important and deserves journalistic attention.
It's a great article, Glenn. I'm sending the link to my college age son who has sadly bought into the leftist strain of authoritarianism and is totally naive about its dangers.
"I’m not the person to subscribe to with an expectation that you then can dictate what I write about."
I think they may have missed why you ended up on substack in the first place...
Glenn, you are the best out there! The best. Including this current piece. Easily, btw.
Jim F. is wrong. Your article is super. Also, I am in for $60 ($5*12), not $50 like Jim F., so my opinion has more weight on your personal K Street here... Wait, I need to read your piece again.
Mr. Greenwald, you are a big voice. Whereas our voices may, collectively, have some effect on the Censorship Gods (and I doubt it), only the big voices will be readily heard - immediately, and effectively. Like yours. The First Amendment, original thought, freethinking, the marketplace of ideas, freedom itself, and everything else that sounds of melodramatic overplay when we talk about this oligarchical/authoritarian censorship, is at stake. It is not possible to overstate this - it's not possible to be too dramatic. This is a war. If we do not have warriors like you to fight it at the front lines, we are all doomed. This has never happened before. There has always been a left, center and right. We could always choose what we wanted to read, what we wanted to learn. Not now. The internet and cyberspace giveth and taketh away. Just when we have such a vast milieu from which to obtain our information, some clan of the Grand Censor decides for us that it is only as "vast" as it wants it to be. So, some snobs and arm-chair quarterbacks will sling "criticism" at you for not finding a Mark Felt or a Daniel Ellsberg every day, as if they are standing around parking garages everywhere smoking cigarettes in the shadows and waiting for some democracy-loving gumshoe to come along and just ask for inside information. I'm glad you don't buy into that pressure. Let's face it, Ed Snowden found you (though, you earned/deserved being found). The right sources find the right reporter, and it's not necessarily the other way around - except, largely, by chance. But, let's face another thing - Tom Fitton and John Solomon can't write opinion. You are the quintessential all-around quarterback, if you will - you can run and you can pass. Keep fighting censorship, keep fighting crime think, keep reminding the MSM lemmings and automatons that the masses want thinking to stay free. Censorship not only shuts down one person's free speech, it prevents all of us from putting ammunition in our thought weaponry. Censorship inhibits the development of our own thoughts - even if we care never to say one word out loud. Censorship will embolden orthodox conformity, and the pathology we are seeing now will worsen exponentially. The eunuch bureaucrats in D.C. can't stop it (Section 230 is a straw man, it's not what we are worried about, like putting a bandaid on a machete sticking out of your skull). Only people like Greenwald (and his adherents - us) can stop it. Like Huxley said in Brave New World Revisited, "[b]ut the nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more." Censorship will breed censors, and indoctrinated automatons - who will turn out more censors, etc. It's now a vicious cycle. Who would have predicted this scourge to have reached such subterranean depths in so little time? Humans like to be on the side of winners, humans are weak. Censorship is to the free brain as hemlock was to Socrates' wisdom.
Sub stack is already under attack by The New Yorker with others soon to follow. I just hope that it is housed somewhere unreachable by its enemies.
Wait- Glenn are you suggesting that you’re not a 20 person strong team of investigative reporters collaborating under a single name? ;-)
There is a point to be made there however. There was some great investigative talent at the TI (before they were purged: https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/layoffs-the-intercept.php), and I’d love to know your thoughts on reclaiming that type of collaboration. I’d also love to know your take on the dynamics with investigative reporters at TI in general. What actually happened there? You’ve mentioned that there are still plenty of great reporters at TI- and I’m inclined to agree.
Good luck to them getting any investigative content past their own cucked editors.
That really wasn’t the point. Fuck TI.
The question was how Mr. Greenwald intends to collaborate with people doing the investigative component. He knows a lot of first rate sleuths that can dig through the muck and extract the real story.
Greenwald is right: he can’t be an expert on all things all the time. That’s where collaboration is useful.
Mr. Greenwald should keep doing what he's doing and not change anything. A journalist should not be beholden to anybody, whether corporations, readers, peers or colleagues. Just the truth and whatever it is that drives him. If another Snowden story drops into his lap Im sure we will hear about it.
Collaborating != being “beholden” whatever that means.
He can obviously do whatever he wants to. I was just soliciting his thoughts on working with other people. A team can do more than an individual.
"He knows a lot of first rate sleuths" - I guess you know that for a fact. And even if so - to know someone does not necessarily imply trust.
I’m sorry, was there a point hidden there?
Sorry Glenn, but it's a leap to ascribe the motives that you do to me. Giving examples of what I would consider reporting in no way allows one to conclude that I'm attempting to hold you hostage for $50. I could say your comment was a cheap shot intended to virtue signal your "journalistic independence". I could also say the reason you lost control of the Guardian and were forced to move on is because you sold out for the almighty dollar. But then, in both instances, I would be making the same mistake you just did.
Investigating my past comments on this site will allow you to conclude that I have consistently complained about the dearth of reporting and the nonstop opinion pieces. I agree with your opinions, and find that you do a good job piecing together previously established facts in a fair and accurate manner, and putting things in proper context. Good on you. But really, what value does this add other than enlightening a few food bags out there who take liberty, freedom, free speech, democracy, personal privacy, etc., etc. for granted? Because a lot of people like myself recognize how fragile these things are, and have come to the same conclusions you do long before you write your pieces. Doesn't exactly move the ball down the field.
I'm looking for journalism. The kind where reporters investigate, use their sources to break and verify new facts, and report them to the public in a fair and accurate manner. I don't need reporters to rehash existing facts and tell me what I am supposed to think about them. I can think for myself. And there are already a ton of "reporters" today that already, as you have recognized yourself. Take a look at Judicial Watch or Project Veritas for examples of reporters doing reporting.
Please consider my subscription fee as my thanks for your excellent work on the Snowden revelations. Hope one day a break some more news.
The most important story out there right now is the news itself. Mainstream media won't cover itself, that would require an honest, independent reporter and corporate media doesn't have any. Please keep covering this story, I appreciate real news.
It really is. I hope people understand just how dangerous the self destruction of the MSM is to our Republic. Their willingness to jettison all ethics and integrity, basically every aspect of true journalism, is something we can’t come back from.
Yes, we can, it's just harder to do.
All in, right? You start. Which way are we headed and what are we doing?
100%
Hard to believe you are someone who has sought out left wing news sites in the past, because very often what they provide is a different perspective on mainstream media, corporately owned, which too often lack any sense of validity. It's the right time to access what has been going on during these last 4 crazy years, the crazy being caused by a lack of honest, and objective reporting in the media, since making money usurps truth.
One more thing, Glenn. You write: "Nobody can be an expert in every topic and those who try usually produce very mediocre journalism, or worse."
What a load of crap. As if journalists don't have relationships with experts to guide them through issues they are not experts in themselves. If journalists have to be experts in what they write about, then they would never write about anything.
You yourself made this argument in a previous comment: "This article took a lot of research, interviews, and investigation in order to write properly."
Starting to realize that I have given you a lot more respect for your cognitive and reasoning skills than you deserve.
Where's your blog/page? I'd like to check out your journalistic skills. I assume you have them, since you criticize Glenn's so freely. Your credibility must be enormous! Please put a link in a reply so I can check you out.
Peace!
How silly. So if you hire guy to paint your house, and he does a crappy job, you can't criticize him because you aren't a professional house painter.
I don't have to be a journalist to recognize when a journalist is phoning it in.
Oh you're so right, I'm silly, because I have a sense of humor, enjoy utilizing sarcasm (a form of humor) to prick the balloon of fatuous self importance, and enjoy troll baiting. Silly, silly me.
Have a nice day now!
I simply disagree that Glenn is doing a poor job. You are entitled to your opinion, Jim, but it is simply an opinion, and at any rate, it's impossible for anyone to please and meet the expectations of absolutely everyone who may purchase their work/services.
Go fuck yourself. You are full of shit and nobody cares about your opinion. Request a refund and disappear.
Great argument.
I could suffer your tone, being full of yourself. However, the suggestion to what investigate reveals your agenda, which is not about journalism. And no, I have not voted for a Democrat for a long time.
Wow. Maybe get a refund if it's that bad?
Karen, I mean Jim. What's your Venmo or Cashapp handle? I'll give you $50 if is SO bad.
Sorry, I meant the Intercept, not the Guardian.
Why not just move on if you're so unhappy with his work? There are plenty of other sources out there that are more tailored to what you seek.
As far as legitimate investigative reporting there is around two or three and they are demeaned and slandered by the MSM regularly. It is bewildering.
Utterly predictable, since they threaten the assumption most audiences have that the MSM still practices journalism.
I don't agree that Glenn's sole job here is to simply report the facts on this or that topic. His opinions and assessments of prevailing facts are every bit as important as simply uncovering important tidbits of news. I do not only want to know about important facts, but also *why* in Glenn's thinking they are so important in the first place. I pay to see pieces like this one from Glenn as much as I do the type of pieces you requested.
Don't you think it's interesting how he avoids the big issues, like election fraud and the man-made origin of SARS_Covid-2. These are MASSIVE stories, the mainstream media (i.e., propaganda arm of the Democrats) won't touch. Where is GG on these? CRICKETS. Bottom line is Glenn is a pussy who phones it in, telling people like you what you want to hear, for $$$.
As Glenn himself noted, he cannot be expected to have an expertise on every big issue, or to agree with every subscriber as to which issues are more demanding of his time and research. Also, I would think that if Glenn had no courage, he would not have made that expose on corruption in Brazilian politics while actually living in Brazil. And if $$$ was his main motivation for tackling this or that topic, I think he would have stayed at The Intercept and aligned himself with establishment Democrats.
Sounds to me like some BS justification for his little scam money-making venture of a gutless journalist. I would expect a guy like him to take on the biggest issues which are crying out for reporters to investigate. Huge disappointment.
I’ve admired your incredible bravery over the last few months, but couldn’t quite bring myself to subscribe because, being libertarian/conservative, my views are opposite yours on many important issues. Then I woke up this morning and realized that it wasn’t a bad dream, & I am now living in a country not much different than CCP China and it’s only going to get worse. So $50/year is my small way of lighting a candle to curse the ever increasing darkness. Thank you Glenn.
But I thought my $50 guaranteed my own personal journalist? No?
In all seriousness though, thank you for all that you do. Your dedication to not only your craft, but your integrity, is rare these days unfortunately.
Lots of ways for people to get attention, and this is one way. Look how much attention journalists received in being critical of Trump. Some of us pick up bad habits.
content is driven by audience expectations in modern day media and is much of the reason for increasing polarization...it is all about eye balls and the bottom line.
Google's advertising analytics is the largest threat to the integrity of our Constitutional democratic republic.
Yep, but I'm pretty sure he has made this comment before, and he may very well have been the one I tried to console, really, and he's back again, but with a response from Greenwald. If he has been on left wing sites these are the types of articles one reads, and they're very interesting and informative. I'm glad Greenwald published this article because he's also bucking his left wing colleagues who have often referenced Trump as a fascist.
if it walks like a duck; quacks like a duck and shits like a duck it is a duck
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
If you saw a duck with your own eyes it's probably a duck, if you saw the "duck" on CNN it might be a chicken or a T-Rex. Reality and corporate media have nothing to do with each other.
You are referring to Antifa, of course.
I think so!
"content is driven by audience expectations in modern day media"
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News networks are owned by giant corporate conglomerates. The money earned by the news network is peanuts to the corporate conglomerate. They use the media like a PR firm to get the corporate message out. It's not driven by "eyeballs", they don't care we want, they are in the brainwashing business.
Excellent point, well made. People don't comprehend this, generally; they are still stuck in the 50s and 60s when journalism really was being done in (some) newsrooms. One of the most important lessons I got in my college Media class (first class of the first semester, not planned but perfectly done to leave a lasting impression on me!) was that the MSM is owned by corporations that are beyond gigantic. They do indeed use the 'news' as propaganda, as a great commercial and camouflaged PR.
Any naive journalistic aspirations I might have had died on the day CNN launched.
Wait. You paid $50, and Glenn is NOT writing the exact stories you demand on your timeline? Outrageous!
LOL! Now watch, Jimmy will ask for a full refund.
Let's not become the very people we despise, by mocking those who dare to think different than us.
LOL. Glenn, maybe you should INVESTIGATE and REPORT on the masses of STUPID people in this country who make authoritarianism POSSIBLE because they CANNOT think nor can they form LOGICAL ARGUMENTS.
Jim, I was just kidding with you. At least Glenn is exploring something other than Orange Man Bad over and over again. Best $50 I spent in 2020.
YOU GO JIMMY! LOVE THE ALL CAPS TOO!
I think I'd pay $50 just to eliminate CapsLk and Shift keys from your keyboard.
even funnier is the fact he put the $50 on his expense account and his employer reimbursed him.
If there was widespread election fraud, it was covered up well. Eliminating the voter verification process (with sloppy mail in voting rules) eliminated the ability to properly audit the results and detect fraud. Correcting this must be done legislatively. The judiciary won't defend democracy, they are more likely attack it because it undermines their own power. The ruling class despises democracy, it's up to the informed public to bring it back. Greenwald is trying to inform the public, and he's doing an excellent job.
Luzerne county's 3 DNC board members certify the election, despite numerous residents speaking up about the anomalies https://www.timesleader.com/news/810818/luzerne-county-election-board-certifies-nov-3-general-election-results and its in the exact same county whose Judge of Elections was just convicted of added fraudulent votes.
How did this man do this? Well...he "added fraudulent votes to the machines at his polling place by ducking into booths and manually voting as quickly as possible, then adding those fraudulent votes to his totals and falsely certified that they were accurate."
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-philadelphia-judge-elections-convicted-conspiring-violate-civil-rights-and-bribery
The second article you link to is about a former Judge of Elections in Philadelphia who was convicted of electoral fraud in primary elections in 2014, 2015, and 2016. The first article is about the Election Board in another Pennsylvania county (Luzerne) certifying the general election results of 2020. There's no connection between the subjects of those two articles.
The connection is the same county, the same DNC control of elections, and the evidence I cited proves there has been shadiness there for years. I lived in Philadelphia for 6 years. Have you? If you have you know that city has been crooked since well before even Angelo Bruno.
Its clear there are people who will commit election fraud if given the opportunity. Computer voting and tabulating presents an opportunity to change millions of votes in an instant. Unverified mail in voting also presents the opportunity for widespread fraud. It should all be done with pen and paper in person.
The same county? One article was about Philadelphia and the other was about Luzerne County. I don't doubt that politicians in both places are shady - most politicians are shady in my opinion. That's not evidence that the Luzerne election decision was fraudulent. Furthermore, neither article stated or implied that the Judge of Elections who was recently convicted of election fraud in 2014, 2015, and 2016 had a role in the 2020 general election.
I would surprised to learn that there was not some degree of electoral fraud in the recent election, but specific allegations should be supported by specific evidence, not general assertions about corrupt politicians.
Additionally the judge was just convicted in 2020. The case goes back decades if you want to dig you will see the consultant he worked with was an ABSCAM convicted consulstant (you know ABSCAM right, the sting on politicians decades ago where only ONE of them went to authorities?) and this story is yep still from 2020. https://whyy.org/articles/former-philly-congressman-convicted-in-abscam-sting-now-charged-with-election-fraud/
Seriously, this is the only place putting out anything readable right now. Shut the fuck up and pony up the $150 founders money as you clearly need to be more vested not less..