Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES

I like this. The Trumpian Mendaciphere has a nice ring to it. Should it be Mendasis-Sphere or one word. You should decide as the inventor. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JoJoFromJerz @Artamys1 I should say a particular part of New Jersey where the NY and Philadelphia accents crash together. — PolitiTweet.org

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Lie O Sphere it is. — PolitiTweet.org

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insurrectionists and inciters of mayhem sitting next to decent public servants. It’s the same for journalism. From far maybe it all looks the same but up close the difference between the liar and the reporter is just as stark. It’s important to know the difference between them . — PolitiTweet.org

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yet inescapable. If one were to zoom out far enough while looking at the floor of Congress; observing the Members, maybe all you would see are Congress people. If you looked more closely you would see something else. You would see loons, crooks, conspiracy theorists, — PolitiTweet.org

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Fearlessly pursuit truth in the name of justice, fairness and the public good. There is a name for such people. It is an honored one and it’s ranks are filled with heroes. It is JOURNALIST. Yet, there are many imposters who tarnish that profession. The following truth is tragic — PolitiTweet.org

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lie roams unchallenged and people are unable to know what to believe, even the greatest Army in the world is impotent and defenseless against the assault. What we need today isn’t complicated. It’s starts with people, Women and Men armed with pen, pads and laptops who will — PolitiTweet.org

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It is used to intimidate and threaten. Menace will always lurk within an autocratic movement. What is the meaning of journalism is something we should have an honest discussion about in America. It is an American crisis. When the truth is being suffocated and smothered, when the — PolitiTweet.org

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through technology. The absence of ubiquitous, coercive violence does not lead to an end that is any less sinister. It is also important to understand that Technology doesn’t eliminate violence in a 21st autocratic movement. Violence tends to be transactional and performative — PolitiTweet.org

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21st century autocrats have the same aspirations for control and likely the same maliced hostility and indifference towards human dignity, cruelty and injustice. The main difference between past and present is the relative elegance and ease with which control can be established — PolitiTweet.org

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Community together. Without grievances there can be no victims and there is no title more exalted within this wretched world than VICTIM. The totalitarians of the 20th Century established control through the use of blunt force. — PolitiTweet.org

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Identity. This is a lazy world that asks very little of its denizens. All it requires is an unburdening of responsibilities and the abandonment of vital societal concepts such as personal responsibility and accountability. Grievance is the dystopian virtue that binds this — PolitiTweet.org

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Within that community there is one opinion which is always right. It is a community where being right is constantly validated through a sophisticated closed loop of misinformation. Ultimately this yields a fanaticism of certitude around dogmas that are the pillars of community — PolitiTweet.org

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Imposed profound intellectual control over people who have substantially surrendered their intellectual agency, trading it for the numbness and comfort that must come with submission to a dogma of victimization, grievance and perpetual righteousness. — PolitiTweet.org

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Lie Scape and the inescapability of algorithms that flood the social media feeds of increasingly isolated human beings with a torrent of insanity, conspiracy and hate, millions have been confined to a sort of digital prison. The algorithm has created an impenetrable fog and — PolitiTweet.org

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There will always be a market for telling the truth in America because it’s telling is a moral necessity in a free society. Tens of millions of Americans have been abused with misinformation that has eradicated their orientation towards reality. Between the dystopian Fox News — PolitiTweet.org

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best in darkness. They are terrified of two things; scrutiny and truth. I witnessed the shuttering of state house bureaus in the 90’s and the decimation of talented journalists’ careers through buyouts, attrition, consolidation ect. This though, is the world we live in. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a disaster for democracy that is exploding into full bloom. The States have been referred to as laboratories of American democracy. The historic truth is that many states have been and remain laboratories for authoritarianism. Anti-Democracy movements maneuver — PolitiTweet.org

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The @LAmag @yashar story is astonishing and chilling. That fact doesn’t do anything to diminish your point. The destruction of local news rooms and shuttering of State House Bureaus has had a disastrous impact on honest, competent, pragmatic, ethical government. — PolitiTweet.org

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I’d like to make an admission and then ask a question. I have a hard time both audibly and in writing distinguishing between THEN and THAN. Should it be Lie -a -sphere or Lie O Sphere? I grew up in New Jersey so English remains a second language. Hope you will help. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mccaffreyr3: Trump abuse of power was simply lawless. The greater danger to our democracy came from the many who were willing to carry… — PolitiTweet.org

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@andreaheart19 @NYMag @HuffPost @yashar @LAmag @ProjectLincoln He did. All anonymous. Total character assassin. None of it was true and I’ll be talking more about that very soon. — PolitiTweet.org

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@matthewjdowd I’m not sure we are top 25 in any of them — PolitiTweet.org

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@AnushayHossain This seems to be a very underreported aspect of the Pandemic. How many women and children were locked in with their abusers? How many didn’t survive. This tragedy isn’t an isolated story. It will be a genre for people who care to look. It’s a tragedy. — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s @ChristySmithCA — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s up to journalists and lawyers to impose standard of ethics and behavior. The unwillingness to do so is a big part of the reason we are in the trouble we are — PolitiTweet.org

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For the same reason @nymag and @HuffPost haven’t fired the catfish character assassin @yashar within 20 minutes of the @LAmag story. No one seems to understand the importance of enforcing ethics within the professions that cannot and should not be regulated by government. — PolitiTweet.org

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Christy Smith is all in. She has put everything on the line in the fight to keep our democracy. What will YOU do to help. Send money. She can win the race. — PolitiTweet.org

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@christysmith is a fighting democrat. If we are going to keep the autocrats like @tedcruz and @GOPLeader from snuffing out American democracy then people need to step up and fund candidates like Christy Smith. — PolitiTweet.org

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And afflict the comfortable, corrupt and privileged. Looks like a lot of them are self interested fools who are drooling over internet clicks. I know for sure that’s not Journalism. — PolitiTweet.org