Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@EdAsante77 You're correct. I noted it in the prior tweet. He actually vowed to vote on authorizing military force (Obama, of course, didn't are about Congressional authorization as he proved in Libya). But mostly DeSantis was aligned with GOP on these issues: https://t.co/am8hMhC1Nx — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Chateaubriand__ https://t.co/mLkn2oF90Z — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@elonmusk @SenMarkey @washingtonpost Here's @SenMarkey demanding tech companies censor in accordance with his political views, all in the context of his party threatening social media companies with legal and regulatory reprisals if they fail to obey their censorship orders. Classic tyranny: https://t.co/j64rCdZ82L — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

And here's @justinamash -- always a consistent voice and vote against needless US wars and surveillance -- on both DeSantis and Pompeo, with whom he served in the House. It'll be interesting to see how DeSantis positions himself now on foreign policy: https://t.co/6qcjn2f6u3 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

One last point on DeSantis' record in the House on foreign policy and how it compares to Trump's 2016 campaign vision (which, again, Trump's Admin often did not follow). DeSantis did denounce and oppose Obama's intent to use military force in Syria: https://t.co/ZfBtvP31XY — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Watch this and marvel at how easy it is to train part of the American population (the super-enlightened liberal class) to believe that what was always unthinkable and unacceptable is, in fact, totally normal and always has been: https://t.co/ZsZS3XkbCe — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@JarekFA @HeerJeet Thank you. The “rumor” is an absolute lie spread by the liberal-left because they know that the easiest way to discredit a gay man is to claim he has sex with under aged boys, so they gleefully exploit that bigoted trope. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@haildvorak They key phrase there is "to the extent there even is one." The votes to send tens of billions of dollars to Raytheon, General Dynamics and CIA "for Ukraine" with no safeguards of any kind was *unanimous* among Dems. 6 or 7 dozen Republicans voted no. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@hunkenjoyer @HeerJeet Wise choice, you little coward. Go run away and stay hidden, if you can. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

There are valid reasons why Dems like David Frum would dislike Joe Kent politically. But it's possible only for so long to keep getting Americans to send billions and their kids to wars that only benefit the David Frums and Pelosis of the world, elites who hate those they send. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The international left continues to be anti-war and opposes the US's Endless War posture. But that is sadly absent in the US "left," which stands united in support of those policies. Maybe it's Hawley, or Rand Paul, or someone needed to denounce this: https://t.co/Mdi8A8hX7h — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

This is why Ron Paul was able to go around Iowa and SC in 2008 and say: why are we allowing neocons and the Cheneys to send your kids to die in pointless wars that only benefit them while you struggle with poor jobs and no health care? That's the tension Trump recognized in 2016 https://t.co/qSzja7GgYw — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Look how repulsive this is. @joekent16jan19 risked his life to fight in the wars that @DavidFrum sent other American families to go fight in, but not his own kids. Kent lost his wife in those wars. And now Frum depicts *himself* as the Paragon of Decency, and Kent as "indecent." https://t.co/fA5dZSDqsH — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

And on DeSantis, what @ZaidJilani says is true. I'm not assuming DeSantis still advocates old GOP foreign policy. Many people evolve as they see more (smart people by definition do so). Just saying his House votes were aligned with traditional GOP policy: https://t.co/ZZfqmzvgbW — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@left__is__best No, I'm not "just asking questions." I'm affirmatively stating that only very dumb and authoritarian people would accept the excuse that the richest country on earth can't manage to count all votes within 24 hours even as less rich nations all over the world do so. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I can see why many conservatives want to move beyond Trump. Maybe there's someone like Josh Hawley who could more effectively advocate the 2016 iteration of Trumpism (that often wasn't reflected in his Admin). Or maybe only Trump can. But this debate is needed and is healthy. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

There's real and substantive internal division on the US right in both foreign and domestic policy. The early Tea Party and Ron Paul's relative success captured that before Trump used his celebrity, charisma and media attention to win with it. These debates don't exist with Dems. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Here's Pompeo on Ukraine: exactly the same as Dems, neocons, Biden, etc. He's a foreign policy hawk, never opposes wars, wants pro-corporate policies, tax cuts for the rich etc. That's largely DeSantis' record, too. But much of the GOP base opposes this. https://t.co/Hj71T8Tzrt — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

DeSantis is a very smart politician so he adapted to the Trump era. He also got COVID right by relying on science, and adeptly uses the culture war. But if you look at his House voting record, he's like Pompeo: supports the foreign and economic policy which Trump 2016 rejected. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

DeSantis v. Trump wouldn't just be about personalities. DeSantis is traditional GOP. Many Republicans like that! They liked the pre-Trump GOP and want to return to that. But Trump ran in 2016 against GOP dogma because (as Ron Paul also showed) a big part of the base rejects it. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

And the utter arrogance of the people who can't manage to count votes until more than a week elapses, the contempt they have for the public when asking why this takes so long and is so chaotic, will only make it worse. Of course this breeds distrust: https://t.co/kW14x8Jjex — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The most surreal part is that the people who claim to embody "democracy," who tell you the only way to save democracy is to vote how they tell you, are the ones who defend this. Anyone asking questions about why this takes so long and is so chaotic is somehow "anti-democracy." — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I'm not stating or implying there's fraud in this election. I've seen no evidence of it. But when the planet's richest country purposely implements a voting system that takes weeks to count votes, and votes appear from all corners, of course that will foster rational distrust. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Is it at all strange that a brand new and opaque voting system was implemented in the name of COVID; people are trained to think it's normal to take not days but weeks to count votes; and candidates are required to concede when the media says so, not when the votes are counted? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@JarekFA @HeerJeet Do you want to put your real name on this accusation again me and my husband? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@hunkenjoyer @HeerJeet Please just put your real name on this accusation. Accusing my husband of having been an "underage sex worker" when he's too sick to respond on his own is repugnant, and claiming I'm a pedophile is as well. Just any of you put your real names on this accusation, please. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@JustBrianOk @HeerJeet What's your last name, Brian? We can test your accusation that I'm a pedophile and that I troll "young (underage) males" in court. You'll have full discovery to prove your repugnant claim, long used by bigots like you against gay men, that I have sex with underage males. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@gnapsjoe @MultaniSaint The GOP lost a huge number of extremely close elections. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@MultaniSaint I said in an earlier tweet there's still the possibility Keri Lake, if she loses, will be an exception. I won't be surprised at all if she claims fraud. But her race isn't declared - she still may win - so I'm talking about what has happened up to now, with most races decided. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

For all the media bullshit about how this might be the last election ever in the US -- something absolutely nobody believed or believes now even if the GOP takes over the House, yet "journalists" still said it -- there's been little to no refusal to accept election outcomes: — PolitiTweet.org