Digital McCarthyism
by C. A. Matthews
It
was bound to happen sooner or later. And it did—a
self-proclaimed
“very important person in government” would
impugn
the integrity of a journalist who—gasp!—actually posts
his/her/their work online for others to read. That this government
VIP is Congress-thing Debbie Wassermann-Schultz of Florida comes
to
no surprise to anyone who followed the Bernie Sanders saga on
this blog.
So,
here we are in the year 2023 and Miss Debbie and
her Democratic Party friends find
it
suspect
that
an
award-winning
journalist like
Matt
Taibbi
has a Substack page and
edits a digital magazine.
The nasty implications the
Dems
leveled at Matt at
a
Congressional "Weaponization of Government" hearing this
week reveal just how terrified the establishment is that We the People
might actually wake up and learn
the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth
from a Tweet or a Substack post.
The
Dems acted so contemptuously that even a
non-voting delegate from the US Virgin Islands called Matt a
“so-called journalist” and didn’t even apologize for her
rudeness. That’s
rich
coming from a “so-called Congress member” who doesn’t even have
voting privileges! By comparison, the Republicans on the committee
came off sounding like angels as they questioned Matt and his
fellow
journalist Michael Shellenberger. (Guess
the Dems'
billionaire donors
told the
Dems
it’s the Red
Hats’
time to win, so go ahead and act like ill-mannered brats, huh?) The
nasty implications the
Dems
leveled at Matt
reveal just how terrified the establishment is that We the People
might actually read a Tweet or Substack post and realize how corrupt the US government truly is and how far they will go to censor this truth. In
this instance, Matt and Michael, who
both
worked on The Twitter Files,
discovered and revealed
nefarious
attempts
at social media censorship by
various US government agencies and related organizations working on their behalf to censor tweets they didn't like. These censorship actions could possibly get folks
in the current administration into
big trouble.
But nothing
good ever comes from revealing
the
truth, now
does it?
That designation
really hurts.
Just because we
want everyone to have clean air, land, and water doesn’t make us
domesticated at all. Far from it. And
I apologize for any “terror” having drinkable water and less
pollution in our food, skies, and bodies of water causes you, but
there you have it.
I’m one of those crazy people like Matt Taibbi
who make
pointed
observations
about
our
society and publish
their thoughts online.
We have an overwhelming desire to share
information
with
others so they can know the truth and
learn to think for themselves.
Miss
Debbie and
the Kool-Aid Drinking Cult of Democrats will
just have to get over their
terror of We the People finding out
what’s been going on behind the scenes in the world of government
propaganda and censorship as well as
the running of the government itself.
The
Ministry of Truth—or the DHS
Bureau
of Disinformation or whatever it’s being called nowadays—worked
overtime to cover up their disinfo
operations
in
“Russiagate.” They
are royally ticked off to have had their manipulations
exposed,
which
possibly explains Miss Debbie’s surliness.
All the smart kids now have no excuse to believe Russia had anything
to do with the 2016 presidential election thanks
to Matt and others revealing this in The
Twitter
Files.
The
“Censorship-Industrial Complex” has
been exposed.
Even
The
New York Times
recently
was
forced to
reveal that Russiagate was all
a
big lie
perpetuated
by a supposed "Russian propaganda tracking" dashboard called
Hamilton 68
or Jefferson Airplane 747
or something like
that. Matt Taibbi discovered it
was
all an
operation to cloud the issues and confuse voters in order to
cover
up
the simple
fact
that warmonger/DOMA supporter Hillary Clinton couldn’t beat her
good
friend,
used
car salesman Donald Trump, in something called the US 2016
presidential election.
Nothing
important really. The
billionaires of the US Military-Congressional-Industrial Complex got
their war in Ukraine eventually. They even used the four years Trump
was in office to further
smear
Russia’s reputation via the Russiagate hoax and make people forget
all about the Maidan Coup of
2014 and the eight years of Ukraine bombing the civilians of the
Donbass region. In
the end, the arms manufacturers were glad the Orange Man won. They’re
rolling in money nowadays.
An
award-winning journalist named Seymour Hersh revealed this truth to
the world
last
month.
For
his courage and hard work, he
is being slandered and libeled by his lesser peers
at the behest of the government propagandists that
Miss Debbie and her
darling
Dems keep protecting and
accusing Matt Taibbi of exposing in The
Twitter Files.
One
of their biggest smears concerning
Sy Hersh’s
journalistic integrity and
impeccable career
is that he
first
published his Nord
Stream 2 explosion article
on his Substack, probably
because US government propagandists pressured mainstream media
outlets not to publish it.
How
can the US government
fool
We the People into thinking that a small group of
“Pro-Ukrainian non-state actors” blew up pipelines of such a
grand
size, found
underwater at a depth only a professional military operation handled
by US Navy deep sea divers could have done? The
New York Times
and Washington
Post
are trying hard with this
rather wimpy
story (possibly written by the Disinformation Bureau), but it’s not
having as much success as Sy Hersh’s better researched story.
The
massive
amounts of
time and money spent
brainwashing
We
thePeople into thinking the “Uni-party that Goes
by Two
Names”
isn’t corrupt and
owned by billionaires
is
a
crime—not what Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger do for a
living.
Just
think
of what could have
been done
with all
the
energy and resources wasted
by our
government’s
propagandists…
Maybe
we could have tackled
homelessness in America and
forgiven
thousands of student loan debts.
Medicare
For All could have been enacted and saved millions of Americans their
lives and their personal finances.
I
realize
now
those
things
aren’t
important to well-off
Miss
Debbie and her fellow VIPs
in
Congress,
but they are important to We the People, the workers, the 99%.
A
whole lot of our family members, friends, and neighbors who suffered
or are still suffering from homelessness, student loan debt,
and no health care could be alive,
healthy, and happy today if Miss Debbie and her kind actually cared
enough
to
work for us instead of their billionaire donors
with
their insatiable need to
shut down indie journos like Matt and
company.
Senator
Joseph McCarthy became infamous for calling journalists,
authors, actors, and others
“Communists” in the 1950s. Sen.
McCarthy
destroyed the
careers
and lives of
innocent Americans with
his baseless accusations and
all for what? To shut up people he didn’t agree with and didn’t
want others to learn important
facts from.
Now
we’re living in the era of “Digital McCarthyism” where the
politician-puppets
working
for the
billionaires
shut
down
truth-tellers
online via
shadow-banning and outright closing
down of social media accounts. Censorship
and destroying
the reputations of others
was wrong seventy years ago, and it’s still wrong today.
I
asked you to do a couple of things a few weeks back in regards to the
East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment story. Are you still doing
them? Are you making notes of how and
when
the mainstream media ignores big
stories or
tries to slant them in
a way to
cover up for whatever billionaire, corporation, or government official might
be at fault? Are you still comparing and contrasting news articles/stories by
independent journalists with the "so-called journalists"
of the mainstream media? Keep it up. Watch
out for ad
hominem (personal)
attacks that are made by those in authority (and their sycophants)
against the messengers (like Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger,
and Seymour Hersh) of potentially embarrassing messages. Always
focus on the message
and not the medium (newspaper, TV, radio, podcast, blog, Tweet,
etc.)
that the message happens to occur in. Do your research and find out
who the messenger
really works for and
what’s in it for them.
Are they working to spread propaganda for the government or a private
corporation?
What has this person or organization got to lose if the truth comes out?
Why
do the powerful feel that turning independent journalists into
pariahs will keep them, the elites, safe from
We the People exacting justice upon them?
When
the truth reveals itself
in
time,
the shit always
hit the fan. And
the results aren’t pretty. Why tempt fate?
Guess
what—we’re
suspect too! Follow us on Substack at
therevolutioncontinues.substack.com It’s where all the cool kids
like Matt Taibbi,
Caitlin Johnstone, Aaron Mate, Chris
Hedges, Seymour
Hersh and so many other independent journalists post their
work. I’m assuming you’re not living in the 18th
century like Miss Debbie and her
friends,
and are, in
fact, reading this article on a computer, cell phone, tablet, or
similar device. I really doubt you’re reading this via smoke
signals or on the remains of dead trees. Please, replant those dead
trees if you are. Our planet
needs all the trees we can grow to
avert the climate catastrophe to come.
We
“domestic terrorists” want to save all the trees that we can,
like
the ones in Atlanta.
Thank you.
Related Links (lots of revealing video links):
The Twitter Files
Unchastened by its Russigate Embarrassment the NY Times Doubles Down in its Special Counsel Coverage
Matt Taibbi Squares Off w/ House Dems Over #TwitterFiles | SYSTEM UPDATE #52 https://rumble.com/v2cel4c-system-update-show-52.html
Debbie Wasserman Schultz vs Matt Taibbi (go to 1:50 in the video) https://www.youtube.com/live/ZiUroNVKtqw
How the USA PATRIOT Act redefines "Domestic Terrorism"
https://www.aclu.org/other/how-usa-patriot-act-redefines-domestic-terrorism
23 charged with domestic terrorism over protest against proposed Atlanta, Georgia police training center https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/03/10/bcbm-m10.html
How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream
White House Counters Hersh’s Reputation With Weak ‘Intelligence’ https://popularresistance.org/nord-stream-attack-white-house-counters-hershs-reputation-with-weak-intelligence/
US complicity in Nord Stream bombing stands exposed
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/03/09/pers-m09.html
US Officials Point the Finger at Pro-Ukrainian Group for Nord Stream Attack https://scheerpost.com/2023/03/05/us-officials-point-the-finger-at-pro-ukrainian-group-for-nord-stream-attack/
More on the Norfolk Southern train derailment aftermath:
How Corporate Greed Destroyed East Palestine (Documentary by Second Thought) https://youtu.be/TcSLlveDu6k
Another Norfolk Southern Train Derailed as Its CEO Testified Before the Senate https://truthout.org/articles/another-norfolk-southern-train-derailed-as-its-ceo-testified-before-the-senate/
Railroad Executives Got Cash, In Part For ‘Record’ Train Length
https://popularresistance.org/railroad-executives-got-cash-in-part-for-record-train-length/
Norfolk Southern Conductor Killed in Crash as Train Safety Bill Faces Pushback https://truthout.org/articles/norfolk-southern-engineer-killed-in-crash-as-train-safety-bill-faces-pushback/
Norfolk Southern’s “six point plan” for rail safety: More PR damage control after East Palestine, Ohio derailment
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/03/09/ohio-m09.html
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