Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

For decades, examining the physical and mental health of politicians seeking high office is journalistically *required*. Of course the public should know Fetterman's post-stroke capabilities. Nobody disputes this. His Senate win is vital and therefore questioning him is barred. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The same thing happened when a few CNN personalities - liberated/required now to also criticize Dems - were viciously maligned for suggesting Biden's speech weaponizing the military was inappropriate. It's all about training journalists: you'll be punished if you criticize Dems. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

In 2020, CBS' @BoKnowsNews was one of the few who did his job by asking Biden about his deals in Ukraine and China as revealed by Hunter's laptop. Media people widely attacked him for pushing "Kremlin propaganda" (based on CIA lie that the laptop was "Russian disinformation"). https://t.co/HhxN8x3GGG — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Dems and their media allies (most employees of corporate media) are so accustomed to journalists refusing to question or criticize Dem Party leaders that they are genuinely shocked and outraged on the rare occasion it happens. They believe it's immoral because it "helps fascism." — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@SabbySabs2 @ryangrim One of my most revelatory moments since I began writing about politics was when I watched at least half of the Dems who built my platform abandon my work and turn overnight into enemies when I applied the same War on Terror critiques to Obama that I'd been applying to Bush/Cheney — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

And I know AOC's "leftist" supporters and media defenders will now dig up all sorts of incriminating things about these 2 protesters because a) punishing ordinary people for irreverence to the powerful is what they do and b) they need to distract attention from their war message. https://t.co/JE21k3F5z0 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I've gone back and watched the interview I did of AOC during her 2018 primary run, when few had even heard of her. @RyanGrim called me and said: "there's this primary challenger in Queens I think you'd really like." He was right. See if you recognize her: https://t.co/bdAxxiLSWi — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Protester to AOC: "I believed in you. And you became the very thing you sought to fight again." Nothing but empathy, brother. https://t.co/JEKBgYQMXV — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

These citizens of color protesting AOC are angry and scared because she's risking their lives in a possible nuclear exchange by sending billions to CIA and Raytheon for Ukraine. Her response? God, you don't need to be so ruuude about it!😠 What happened to this viral manifesto? https://t.co/J9g65wQhzH — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

AOC, 12/2020, on Antifa activists menacing politicians in public: Activists *should* be impolite. "The whole point of protesting is to make ppl uncomfortable." AOC, last night, to protesters confronting her for funding Biden's proxy war: I won't answer you! "You're being ruude!" — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Missa1969 @davidmirandario This was the last update I posted, on Sunday. Thanks for asking: https://t.co/QgGZI4fZQP — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@nosajferguson @davidmirandario If you noticed, right before we sat down, he went over and clicked a button. He was turning on a noise machine because of course he suspected that governments were illegally spying on the embassy. This was a case of my own government spying on me with no warrant. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

(As many pointed out: "disinformation expert" performs a similar function as the label "fact-checker": Media corporations know the public lost trust in their employees' statements so they created new job titles to glorify them as residing above ordinary subjectivity and bias). — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

2) The most reliable indicator someone is a fraud: they label themselves a "disinformation specialist" or working for an "anti-disinformation group": as if this is some new, apolitical, specialized term of art rather than a politicized farce to make censorship appear scientific. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Two points: 1) Stop being shocked when mainstream liberals express their desire to see their political adversaries not only censored by a union of state and corporate power but also imprisoned. The crux of American liberalism is authoritarianism. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@adrianoladrika Natalie is a nice, smart and harmless Dem. That's why Hillary loves her. As I've said, I enjoyed some of her videos. They can be great. But her function is clear. Nothing more to it than that. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Ever since Bernie's campaign collapsed and he decreed they all must follow him back into captivity to the Dem Party, the mainstream left has struggled so hard to find a way to distinguish themselves from their Pelosi-loving moms. They thought trans issues could be it but, alas.. https://t.co/5pXrZAHXRV — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Some of @Contrapoints' videos have been great. I've liked many. But it's always amazing to see how easily mainstream politics co-opts and converts anyone who begins without any rooted views. Just a quick visit from Hillary and these lectures start flowing https://t.co/6a3VL1SHLD — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Things you say after you go from seeing yourself as some sort of subversive counter-cultural radical to being cheered and celebrated by Hillary & Chelsea Clinton during a visit to your fabulous house for their newest Apple+ documentary and realizing what your actual function is: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@newmanchez @Kasparov63 I didn't say that supporting the US proxy war in Ukraine makes someone a neocon. I'm just pointing out that all neocons support it, so of course Pompeo does. There were non-neocons supporting the invasion of Iraq (on the ground that US should free Iraqis of Saddam's brutality). — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Nice to have this memory of the last time I saw Julian Assange in person: when @davidmirandario and I visited shortly before the London Police dragged him out 3+ years ago, where he remains imprisoned with no conviction. Film courtesy of CIA illegally filming inside the Embassy: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @ComicDaveSmith: Hell Yeah @Gutfeldfox https://t.co/NotHULarLM — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@TomCruise_69 @JoshKraushaar I just said that. Dems are trying to claim he radically misrepresented the quote. I posted the video so people could decide for themselves. That you found it useless doesn't mean it was useless for everyone. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I personally don't think reporters who aren't trained in assessing these sorts of thinks should be musing about someone's cognitive abilities, especially this casually. But it is what she said, and the key question is if Fetterman is releasing enough medical records. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

It's true @JoshKraushaar wrote the quote slightly wrong as he watched it happen - shouldn't have used quotes - but he then corrected it with the verbatim quote. Here's the video. Decide for yourself if he misrepresented the substance of what the NBC reporter said about Fetterman https://t.co/Bjf3GAEpqN — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@jlawhorn1975 Obama said this in 2016 (after Crimea), not 2014. And the reason he said Ukraine isn't a vital interest to the US is the same reason DC always said this: it has no resources vital to the US, and the US has no important security interests there. Nothing changed in this calculus. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@nycexpatmom So many of them are saying to Pompeo: oh wow, good to see you joined the right side, or even implying he's only doing it cynically now -- as if Pompeo hasn't been a life-long hawk and militarist who spent years bashing Obama for being "soft on Putin." — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The point of CIA's Russiagate - beyond undermining Trump - was to get liberals to join the establishment GOP in hating Russia (by telling them it was Putin's fault that Hillary lost). It worked perfectly. They don't even remember Obama's views, and are now 100% with neocons. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Obama spent years telling hawks in both parties they were insane for wanting to confront Russia over Ukraine since Ukraine never will be a vital interest to the US but always fo Russia.👇 This history has been erased. And Obama won't utter a word now: can't jeopardize the brand. https://t.co/INuzij5Ymc — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Despite Trump's rhetoric, many neocons and militarists like Pompeo used flattery of Trump to entrench themselves in high positions in the Exec Branch. Of course Pompeo supports the Dem proxy war in Ukraine: he's a life-long neocon and war hawk against Russia. Makes total sense. — PolitiTweet.org