Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@dsdamato Yes, I think it's important to use the claim sparingly: only when you've had ample time to observe them, interact with them, see how their brains malfunction. I've had that with Cenk and thus feel comfortable saying it. Some of the people I dislike most are smart: he's just dumb. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@dsdamato I've been thinking recently about the fact that basic stupidity explains a lot of what takes place in elite political and media discourse. But because it sounds so impolite and harsh to say that about someone -- and it is -- it gets overlooked as the major factor that it is. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Moldy_xx @WhitKS2490 By far the easiest path to money, popularity and advancement over the last six years was readily available to me -- denounce Trump over and over as a white nationalist fascist Kremlin-controlled dictator. I rejected it because I don't believe it. Opportunists would have done that — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@WhitKS2490 You're right that he's also completely opportunistic -- though even there, it's a very crude, transparent form of opportunism -- but stupidity is by far the leading factor in shaping what he thinks, does and says. We often shy away from this explanation because it's harsh. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@ElAnCapPe @NancyMace Cassandra has praised some of Nancy's work on animal experimentation and animal welfare despite making clear that she believes her disagreements outweigh that support. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The nation's single dumbest pundit -- and I mean that literally and earnestly: there may be people more malicious, but there's simply nobody more stupid, more cognitively dense -- decrees that Bernie Sanders' 2020 Press Secretary is part of the "fake left." — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Jingo_Unchained @JellyJimmyJelly White liberals genuinely believe that people of color who vote GOP are too stupid, uneducated, and unsophisticated to think for themselves, to understand their own reality and interests. They believe people of color are lost without guidance from more enlightened white liberals. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@JellyJimmyJelly Are you here to say that Latinos -- along with increasing numbers of Asian and Black voters migrating slowly but surely to the GOP -- support and want to construct a system of white nationalism in the US? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@CarlossennaB Yes, the person who calls American Latinos "Latinx" -- despite one poll after the next showing how much almost all of them despise that term -- is the one who has his finger on the pulse of political sensibilities driving political behavior of Latinos in the US. https://t.co/f4joWMc7Cy — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

To them, there's no such thing as deliberative or genuine dissent from their worldview. They constantly reinforce each other's certitude. Thus, they recognize only a small handful of motives -- all corrupt -- why one might reject them: racism, bigotry, contrarianism, grifting. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

This is why you constantly see establishment liberals calling anyone who disagrees with them "contrarians" and "grifters." They've manufactured a happy world where their views are universally accepted Truths, so only corrupt motives could cause someone to reject their pieties. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Elite liberals in media and politics look around and see most large corporate media outlets vigorously echoing their ideology. They curate their social media feeds and cable outlets to exclude dissent so, for them, it disappears. This causes them to live in complete delusion. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

As with Russiagate, elite media endlessly fixates on sideshows people ignore. And if Latino/Asian/Black votes keep migrating to GOP, and it's GOP with pioneers like @MayraFlores2022, the media soon must reconcile these facts with its view that GOP is a "white nationalist" party. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

This result - Dems lose an overwhelmingly Latino district in TX that was +16 for Hillary, to a GOP nurse who will be the first-ever Mexico-born Congresswoman - is obviously humiliating. That it happened during the Liz Cheney spectacle is hilarious. Doubtful it changed one vote. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @PaulGottinger: Remember when everyone who warned this exact thing would happen was called a Putin apologist — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I know @NancyMace is controversial in various circles -- Trump endorsed her opponent -- but beyond her real working-class roots, she's done vital work in denouncing cruel, gruesome NIH animal experiments, and is an advocate for animal welfare generally. That's needed in Congress. https://t.co/C6xRN3KeR7 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

https://t.co/eb5CiLLw8y — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@TheDigitalGuru1 Also known as: a five-year high. See also: https://t.co/PDcxf21FSd https://t.co/qeMqZhFaCE — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The problem from the start was the obligatory moralism narrative didn't help decipher what policies would and wouldn't work. And that was as intended: there was so much to debate and question about US policy, but it was barred. Anyone who tried was maligned as a Russian stooge. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Three months into this war, Ukraine is ravaged. Russia controls major parts of E. Ukraine. Russia's oil profits are higher than ever. Ruble is strong. Much of the world rejected US/NATO policy. Billions in US funds: gone, who knows where. Untraced weapons are flooding the region. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Anyone who suggested the sanctions regime would cause this was immediately dismissed as a Kremlin apologist or asset -- true for any questioning of the instant US/NATO consensus on this war. This is what always happens with sanctions. These tactics were designed to quash debate: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @krystalball: This was the obvious completely predictable outcome — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @kennardmatt: Today's revelations about Paul Mason are extremely serious. He's been plotting with a UK govt official specialising in inf… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@DavidGong88 They're both examples of US leaders from the Democratic Party embracing, praising, befriending and propping up the world's most savage despots, due to the benefits such partnerships provide to the US. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Regarding the horrific and sad case of British journalist @DomPhillips and Bruno Pereira who have been missing more than a week in the Amazon: Brazil's envoy to the UK apologized for announcing their bodies were found. They weren't. But it's still grim: https://t.co/psAn9c6jZL — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @esaagar: Russia just posted an *all time record* in oil profits. The effect of the Western oil embargo appears to have pushed prices to… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@DavidGong88 https://t.co/1FNI2bkce3 https://t.co/PQ78Ja3Eao — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@ZeroRoomInHell Apparently very few in corporate media and elite DC politics know they claimed Trump had done something unprecedented by embracing the Saudi tyrants. You can read CNN's WH correspondent saying that by partnering with the Saudis, he overturned US values that generations cherished: https://t.co/Uwq9TGbP5w — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

But by all means: continue to write your columns spewing moral outrage at golfers who decided to play in a Saudi-funded tour. It's much easier to deal with that than confront the reality of what the US -- not Trump, but the US -- has been doing for decades with Saudi despots. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

And for good measure: in 2009, as Egyptians began rising up against their long-time dictator, the US-supported-and-protected Hosni Mubarak, Hillary pronounced him "my good friend" and defended him. And it was Obama who enabled the Saudis to destroy Yemen with endless support.🇺🇸 https://t.co/l6iQ4xenF6 — PolitiTweet.org