6/20/23 VS Media Podcast on Substack - As it turns out, some people are above the law + the dilemma Dr. Peter Hotez and his allies at MSNBC have created for themselves.
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Stephen L. Miller
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Instead of just saying "Trump was really dumb for admitting the things he did in that interview," we now have some elaborate conspiracy that Bret Baier was working to entrap Trump with the DOJ.
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Replying to @alexbruesewitz
The big question is did @BretBaier have any contact with the DOJ to try and entrap @realDonaldTrump into incriminating himself. Who wrote his questions. The DOJ will be using his interview against him.
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Happy How Dare You Day.
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Five years ago today, left-wing climate activist Greta Thunberg tweeted, "A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years."
She deleted the tweet. How are you marking the occasion?
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Good thing teacher unions aren’t trying to distract from that by screeching that removing woke propaganda from classrooms is a civil rights violation
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Breaking News: Math and reading scores for 13-year-olds in the U.S. have hit the lowest levels in decades, with a sharp drop since the pandemic began.
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South Dakota @GovKristiNoem launches national ad campaign highlighting how "the best economy in the nation" has "25,000 open jobs"
"I'm a lousy plumber," she jokes in one TV spot dressed as a handyman
"It's my first day," she tells a concerned patient at the dentist in another.
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"Mr. Biden told about 130 guests at the big-dollar event in a private Kentfield home..."
"...U.S. officials were surprised on Tuesday night that the president would discuss the sensitive information..."
So, using sensitive info to impress donors?
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WHAT?!
"Pres. Biden said on Tuesday night that President Xi Jinping of China had been kept in the dark by his own government about the spy balloon that crossed into United States airspace this winter before being shot down by an American fighter jet." nytimes.com/2023/06/20/us/
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Why can't you respect the gender identity of other people?
If a sex-typical person asks to be called, 'cis,' then somehow referring to them as such in tweets won't be repeated harassment.
Otherwise, don't *impose* a word on others and then use it as a slur.
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Lol this was inevitable. These people are pathetic authoritarian cowards. I'm going to get banned for calling weak transphobic cis people what they are. It's been "fun" twitter.com/lisasevern/sta…
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“I’m the President’s wingman.”
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I mean we can go back to Eric Holder and Obama if you like. The DOJ is not independent and the media using that standard to make the Trump thing not sound or look political isn't going to work.
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This rules so hard.
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The CEO of OceanGate, which is operating the missing Titanic tourist submarine, explains that the company didn’t want to hire any experienced “50 year old white guys” because they weren’t “inspirational.”
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I mean we can go back to Eric Holder and Obama if you like. The DOJ is not independent and the media using that standard to make the Trump thing not sound or look political isn't going to work.
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Yeah that doesn't work anymore. You were warned where this goes. Now it's going there and you shocked by it.
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Joe Biden appoints to AG, the guy his former boss nominated the supreme court, and he goes after the former other President whom prevented him from that nomination, and you seriously want to still argue "DOJ independence"
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After Trump promised to appoint a "real" special prosecutor to go after the Bidens, we asked the GOP field whether they defend the post-Watergate norm of an independent DOJ. Few did. @jonathanvswan @charlie_savage @jonathanweisman me nytimes.com/2023/06/21/us/
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Another joke hit because the media doesn't like the current SCOTUS majority.
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73d graf. (Also, Randolph producing contemporaneous notes of ethics compliance advice he received over the phone 18 years ago is impressive.) twitter.com/propublica/sta…
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The press is invested in the idea that a Cabinet-level department is somehow independent. They're wrong, and Democrats have, for years, used the DOJ to go after those they dislike, having weaponized the Civil Rights division.
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"What do you mean there are new rules?"
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After Trump promised to appoint a "real" special prosecutor to go after the Bidens, we asked the GOP field whether they defend the post-Watergate norm of an independent DOJ. Few did. @jonathanvswan @charlie_savage @jonathanweisman me nytimes.com/2023/06/21/us/
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In which Ron DeSantis cites black letter constitutional law and the New York Times throws a hissy fit.
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After Trump promised to appoint a "real" special prosecutor to go after the Bidens, we asked the GOP field whether they defend the post-Watergate norm of an independent DOJ. Few did. @jonathanvswan @charlie_savage @jonathanweisman me nytimes.com/2023/06/21/us/
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73d graf. (Also, Randolph producing contemporaneous notes of ethics compliance advice he received over the phone 18 years ago is impressive.)
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New: In the years after the undisclosed trip to Alaska, Republican megadonor Paul Singer’s hedge fund has repeatedly had business before the Supreme Court. Alito has never recused himself. propublica.org/article/samuel
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I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve.
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And now with the cis slur. Smh. twitter.com/Mike_P_William…
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Wajahat and Mehdi just so happen to think Islam means exactly what their secular MSNBC colleagues believe
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It has been 82 days since , ’s presidential fact checker, has fact-checked Joe Biden, the president.
In the interim, he has fact checked Republicans 29 times, and former President Trump 18 times.
What gives?
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Interesting how you tagged Peter Daszak here.
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The attack on @PeterHotez is part of an escalating campaign, spearheaded by the fascist right, against experts who specialize in COVID-19 research, aimed at terrorizing them into silence.
@PeterDaszak @MeetJess @arijitchakrav @EpiEllie @DrEricDing
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Lockdown Ron DeSantis shut Florida down during the pandemic, much more so than other states. Now he’s trying to gaslight the American people into thinking otherwise.
He’s a liar and a fraud who can’t be trusted.
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Trump praised DeSantis' leadership in reopening FL nypost.com/2023/04/23/don…
FL reopened in 3 phases
1: Limited reopening of businesses & healthcare
2: Further eased restrictions
3: Full operations for most establishments, removing local mandates
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Who would have ever guessed CNN would immediately bring in a former federal prosecutor who worked for Preet Bharara to defend both Hunter Biden and the Biden DOJ?
This is so out of character for them: relying on US Security State officials to defend the Biden Administration:
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CNN defends the DoJ for letting Hunter Biden off the hook for facilitating corruption & other major felonies: "This is not a sweetheart deal."
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Wonder how many of the legacy media stories about the Hunter Biden charges mention that two IRS whistleblowers have said the Biden DOJ meddled in the case.
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Poor guy.
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"a gaping wound in his heart and the most sensitive soft spot in his campaign armor" nytimes.com/2023/06/20/us/ @peterbakernyt
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60 percent of the time = few, according to local man who was told there would be no math.
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Lying to ATF on gun-purchase form yields few prosecutions, data shows washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/
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"I'm very proud of my son," President Biden tells reporters in his first comments since his son Hunter's plea agreement
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That's why, yes, among other reasons, Hunter Biden is on the ballot.
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Getting into the details of this case like this means officially acknowledging the laptop is real, always was, the text messages and emails were real, and that Biden knew this and lied to the country from a debate stage about it.
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Wapo declines to name Hunter’s girlfriend who illegally threw out a handgun across the street from a public school. It was Hallie Biden, his brother’s widow.
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Ummm… the data show about half of all referrals are prosecuted
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Lying to ATF on gun-purchase form yields few prosecutions, data shows washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/
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To this day the Secret Service denies any involvement in the affair, despite eye witness testimony saying otherwise. Seems shady!
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Many in media are highlighting the fact that this specific gun charge is rarely brought. But that’s a bit misleading: what do you expect the DOJ to do when a drug addict loses his firearm and it turns up outside of a high school after an FBI and secret service investigation?
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.@freebeacon is only outlet that covered the days surrounding Hunter’s gun purchase freebeacon.com/biden-administ
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Anyway that's what I wrote here. I don't care that Hotez turned down Joe Rogan. I do care that he chose to do it on Mehdi Hasan's MSNBC show. This is about gatekeeping. Not science and expertise.
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You don't get to rail on about being a credible scientist with mo political motivations, or conspiracy theorizing, when you make a habit of regularly appearing on Joy Reid's show.
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Is it more or less important than wearing a lab coat on Joy Reid's show?
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I’m still hoping to remain on Twitter, but we’ll see how things go. This was and should be an important outlet for scientists, although far more challenging in its new form. twitter.com/peterhotez/sta…
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