Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@KDansky Yes, and Michelle Obama's. I think the case of both Nancy Reagan and Jill Biden, there's a sense they do wield actual power given their husband's age and infirmities. But that was the point of the question: it's problematic if an elected president needs their spouse to function. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@KDansky That they put her on national TV is an implicit statement that her views carry more weight than the average citizen. Yes, I'm saying that asking a politician's spouse about their views on proposed laws is absurd absent expertise, despite the fact that, recently, it's often done. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@KDansky That they put her on national TV is an implicit statement that her views carry more weight than the average citizen. Yes, I'm saying that asking a politician's spouse about their views on proposed laws is absurd absent expertise, despite the fact that, recently, it's often done. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@KDansky Most people aren't put on national TV to hear opinions on various proposed absent some expertise in those laws or having been elected to public office. I don't believe either is true of Jill Biden. It's part of the idea that the presidential spouse is a real position. It's not. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The spouse of a surgeon isn't qualified to speak on the intricacies of surgical procedures simply by virtue of being married to a surgeon, and nobody would express interest in asking them about it or giving them a media platform to opine on it. Nobody would value that opinion. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Beyond the arrogance manifested here - how dare you question if my husband, who displays visible signs of cognitive decline, as even leading Dems warned before he won the nomination - since when did we treat the opinions of First Ladies as carrying more weight than anyone else's? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The least likely possibility, as usual, is the one that the Western corporate media mindelessly fed everyone immediately: Russia blew up their own pipeline (😂). Sweden/Denmark are investigating. The Russians are urging release of those results. Yes, let's see those: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @peterjhasson: https://t.co/jPfm3XM3XZ — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@LogosAndLiberty @buttonslives As is true with pretty much every political and social debate we have, there is a big difference between things aimed at children and the right of *adults* to make decisions for themselves about what brings them self-actualization. Any attempt to interfere in the latter is wrong. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@GameEnders1_ Matt Walsh believes in barring the right of adults to obtain sex-reassignment surgeries and treatments, and that's the only rational way to treat this latest statement by his DW colleague. That's the point of her letter, where she draws the line. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@JasonDoesTwitta Many of the leading culture warriors on the right are getting more and more explicit that they are not only interested in the treatment of children but instead their goal is to control the choices of trans adults as well. That's the whole point of her letter. Read it. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@cactus2jack2 If you read her letter, you'll see that the line for her was crossed when some of the right's fixation on trans issues ceased being about what was done to children and expanded explicitly into controlling the lives of adults and denying their autonomy and agency. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

If you find yourself spending your time trying to control the personal, intimate choices of adults -- either through the force of law or moralistic judgment - it's likely a sign that you have some deep unhappiness and unsettled discomfort within yourself. Mind your own business. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

There had been a Culture War consensus for 20 years or so grounded in the principle that consenting adults have the right to do what they want without the state or society intervening. Parts of the moralistic left and right (more the latter) have been eagerly abandoning this. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The attempt to depict people as sub-human monsters due to any political disagreements benefits outlets that thrive and depend on hateful polarization, but it's so often (not always, but often) a wild caricature. Read this reflective resignation letter from @buttonslives: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I should note: the article's last paragraph stumbles into a truth it - and mainstream discourse generally - desperately avoids. The more relevant dichotomy than left/right or Dem/GOP is pro/anti-establishment. Failure to understand this makes one's political analysis worthless: https://t.co/zPx5d4uRC7 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @toddglewis: Julian Assange revealed war crimes by the US military, including intentional attacks on civilians. Edward Snowden revealed… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @Daly_Sunshine: It has been eerily impressive to witness how neocon & neoliberal establishment networks have been able to work together… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

(And by the way: for all your poser-left types now slyly trying to distance yourself from the Biden/Pelosi/EU proxy war in Ukraine and even imply you were opposed all along: that won't work. When it mattered, only a few took those bullets and you, as usual, were unwilling). — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Thus does this article end on what should be a bizarre, nonsensical note but instead has now become standard: Brand is not a leftist but instead has fallen in with the likes of Joe Rogan, Tucker and myself and our hatred for Western wars, the US Security State, and corporatism. https://t.co/DF4eZTjJLQ — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Similarly, distrust of the motives of the US/NATO proxy war in Ukraine is also a far-right signifier. Here we have yet another inversion: the liberal-left reverses western security agencies, globalized corporations and their wars as benevolent. Only the "far right" distrusts them https://t.co/KJsw64NwGb — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

It is indeed true that all those views - hatred of corporate media, distrust of globalized ("multi-national) corporate giants, holding the US Security State in contempt and its adversaries as heroes - are now right-wing markers. Much has indeed changed. But Brand and I haven't. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

For as long as I can remember, those views - contempt for corporate media and Big Pharma, anger over mistreatment of "heroes" Assange and Snowden - were deeply associated with the Western left. They're views I always held and still did. Now these are right-wing views? Evidently. https://t.co/iQjsQaK9uP — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

In order to argue that Brand is no longer on the left but the right (despite what it acknowledges is his ongoing admiration for Bernie and Corbyn), look at the views that are now identified - in the first paragraph - as ones that mark you as being on the "far-right". Just look: https://t.co/I4uxEHvj5v — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

This @NewStatesman article is entitled "We Have Lost Russell Brand." The "we" appears to be "the left" (I never knew NS was the avatar and membership-arbiter of "the left"). What's fascinating are the views now identified as hallmarks of the "far-right" https://t.co/1frio1OYde — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@mdrizzle34 @slownerd1 I've commented on the Fox/Dominion suit many times, so your excuse doesn't justify your lying. Accusing someone of not covering a topic without bothering to check makes you, at best, a reckless spreader of lies. Condemning a show you haven't seen just makes you dumb. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Excising everyone in your life who has different political views than you - including your parents, siblings and children - seems like a very psychologically unhealthy thing to do. Doing that as a journalist seems fatal to the job, as well as psychologically ill. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The long-time art critic for @NYMag, @jerrysaltz, instructed his Instagram followers yesterday to "shun" everyone - including family members and close friends - who voted Republican, and they shouldn't even provide an explanation: just cut off all ties. https://t.co/NHU2RqbBgZ https://t.co/ceNVcQUQLr — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@mdrizzle34 @slownerd1 Except for the way I've repeatedly commented on it and devoted my entire program on Friday to that topic? https://t.co/G41rgsrOzs — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

It's not just anti-war activism that is all but gone from the mainstream DC liberal-left, but also any skepticism or concern toward the US intelligence community. When's the last time you heard Sanders or the Squad condemn CIA, FBI, DHS or NSA - except for not doing more spying? — PolitiTweet.org