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Author of GRIFTOPIA, THE DIVIDE, THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING, and HATE INC. Podcast, Useful Idiots:

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  1. for 15 timer siden

    Responding to "On the Media" on Free Speech: joining FIRE's "So to Speak" podcast with Nadine Strossen, Amna Khalid, and Nico Perrino:

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  2. 15. sep.

    The defining feature of most of the War on Terror architecture created by Bush is that it allowed action without judicial or congressional review. What checks and balances were there on mass surveillance, rendition, drone assassination?

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    That matters. Whatever Bush did, it was within the system’s checks and balances. So yes, in that sense, Trump was worse. Because a system where the only checks and balances are you barely existent conscience has a name: Tyranny.
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  3. 14. sep.

    Bush by any rational measure was a hundred times the monster Trump was, but he gets a pass because his offenses were institutional. Assassinate, kidnap, blacklist, torture, and invade, but do it within official framework, and you’re less the villain.

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  4. 14. sep.

    The person who calls you dumb while making the your/you’re mistake is a treasured and timeless Twitter phenomenon.

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    hey matt did you leave aside your Brain 😂 cause your dumb as hell, dumbass
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    Angre
  5. 14. sep.

    No one…

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  6. 14. sep.

    Also just like last time, it will be a decade before the most fervent supporters of the campaign start to realize they’ve been had, and whipped up into a frenzy to back a campaign that massively overshot its “target” and mostly just undermined their own rights.

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    Cynically, I suspect he and the corporate media aren't wrong to compare 9/11 with 1/6 in one sense 9/11 resulted in a severe overreaction which curtailed civil liberties, expanded the abilities of the federal government, attacked the wrong target, and wasted trillions of dollars
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  7. 14. sep.

    Uh… there were huge numbers of people who thought Bush stole the 2000 election with the help of the Supreme Court, and it was a similar story after 2004, when a group of congressional Democrats objected to the counting of Ohio’s electoral votes, alleging mass “irregularities.”

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    OMG, I just watched this. Pathetic, dozens of my friends are liberals and not 1 thought Bush stole 1 or even 2 elections. You just throw shot out there, how does like so much of your stuff? That was like National Enquirer level gas lighting.
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    Angre
  8. 14. sep.

    9/11 and America's March Toward Authoritarianism - by Matt Taibbi - TK News by Matt Taibbi

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  9. 14. sep.

    Bush created a machine for unrestrained violence and institutional bigotry that made us the shame of the world — imagine Stop-and-Frisk with drones — yet to the Beltway consensus, he at least represented an establishment legitimacy absent with Trump.

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  10. 14. sep.

    Bush was both more disdainful and more ignorant of the law than Nixon, his arsonist economic stewardship was rivaled only by Hoover, and intellectwise he made Chester A. Arthur look like Copernicus.

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  11. 13. sep.

    The War on Terror was about the expansion of extralegal authority for its own sake. Democrats have seamlessly taken over the mission, because they’re now the same people the Bush Republicans were, only many times over more sanctimonious and insufferable.

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  12. 13. sep.

    Democrats Swoon Over George W. Bush, In Match Made in Hell:

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    13. sep.

    & shares with Matt Saudi terrorist rehab. It’s Monday morning at 10AM it's ! reviews the worst moments from the Sunday morning shows! Watch here: Support :

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  14. 13. sep.

    Okay, NOW we're live on Monday Mourning:

    TUNE IN HERE for
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  15. 13. sep.

    Had a technical problem. Issuing new link in a moment for Monday Mourning

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  16. 13. sep.

    About to go live with at 10 a.m. to review the Sunday morning news shows - lots to talk about, please visit here:

    Tune in Monday Morning for Live, where & I go over the Sunday morning news shows that we watch so you don't have to.
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  17. 12. sep.

    Of course, because if Osama bin Laden was about anything, it was striking down heteropatriarchy…

    This woman is a professor at Syracuse University
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    12. sep.

    A reminder of what politics really is, everywhere, once you peel back a paper thin veneer.

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  19. 11. sep.

    George W. Bush, the man who brought us torture, indefinite detention, assassination, and mass surveillance, rebukes those who’ve turned their backs on the “America I know.”

    Almost weeping, George W. Bush rebukes those Americans who have turned their backs on “the America I know.” Important speech.
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  20. 11. sep.

    Horrible. Moreover it’s sad the only reason this is getting attention is because it’s supposedly the last military act in Afghanistan. How many of these do we ignore?

    The final act of the U.S. war in Afghanistan was a drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 people. Our latest investigation shows how a man the military saw as an "imminent threat" and "ISIS facilitator" was actually an aid worker returning to his family:
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