Matt Taibbi Has Tense Interchange With Dem Lawmaker During Twitter Files Hearing 

Crooked democrats

They show their Cyrus colors RED as in CCP

So you’re British? It’s worse for you. No?

Everyone has a price to sell your humanity

Yes, including Jordan and his lame , so called witnesses..

Only, there BS doesn't work...

They like paddling in a little mud puddle!

Dems don't care about the actual Corruption and Collusion of the Government and Big Tech ... Censoring and Supressing the Truth... Yet they are VERY Angry about the Reporters EXPOSING the Facist State All the Yes/ No Questions are similar to the " Are you still beating your Wife?" Setup Question. Either Yes or No "implicates" you as a " wife beater"

I mean the republicans do the same thing. They only allow yes and no answers when they’re trying to grill someone. I’m a hardcore republican, but we all know that both sides will run the same strategy.

@@King1614 Fair enough.

I see that I and at least 62 other people noticed that too. Taibbi and Shellenberger were both great. "They tried to" was a good response.

FKN A

Sad but true: The only reason we know Democratic party officials unfairly favored Hilary Clinton and disadvantaged Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential nomination contest is because Russia hacked and released Democratic Party files.

*material. But your point is correct.

He is far and away smarter than they are, but then again so is my dog.

It was hacked direct from emails. So-- clever Matt. But he doesn't care because he's got that Putin thing going on. I think he fancies himself in his new guise, too.

Shoes should have been thrown!

i would love to answer there stupid questions, they would NEVER forget me.

​@@bandit99515 I can certainly sympathize with the desire, unfortunately you'd never pull it off. These two guys can't even give a straight, honest and concise answers to the questions before they get shut down with some juvenile and disrespectful statement.

@@timwhite5562 uyea i could

I'm dreaming of a giant hand (a la Jackass) smacking that clown into the next dimension...

Doh! You really don't know how any of this works? And why aren't you asking why trump tried to suppress tweets he was offended by? Where are the emails that showed the FBI demanded anything be taken down? Show us one. Just one.

Careful now, that's what we call logic and logic is not used by Democrats or just ignored if it doesn't help their narrative

@@althepalno1164 Lets see the FBI gave a list of offensive tweets and by some stroke from god the were taken down. Imagine that.

Dems don't care about the actual Corruption and Collusion of the Government and Big Tech ... Censoring and Supressing the Truth... Yet they are VERY Angry about the Reporters EXPOSING the Facist State

Exactly “Twitter answered….” No. Mr Roth, owned by the DemonicRAT Party answered

Mmm... reading from notes to ensure the total accuracy of the facts is not a disadvantage. It creates a situation where the Republicans cannot dispute the facts entered into the record.

​@Sprawling Man he can try to spin all he wants but the true fact is the fbi has there hands in censorship of conservatives.

@@sprawlingman8277 Oh, non disputable facts like 6 Jan ACTUAL video footage? Oh, I see you can be very selective.

test

@@alexrodgers9247 If Carlson didn't believe the lies why do you still believe them? I guess it's hard to leave a cult.

BIG TIME.

Vote these Anti-Freedom out of office!

Yes, they have. Destroying unethical or paid-for witnesses with real facts and not conspiracy theories.

It is never ever seen by the people who need to see it, though. That is the shameful part.

They have been showing their true colors for over 10 years, the problem is the media covers for them.

Lol. Excellent analogy

Define “drove”. Very important distinction.🤔

The Russians robbed that bank

@@mostlyright5384 Not really. This situation is more like " we had a report you have been robbed by Joe Blow. Is this the case? And when the answer is no, Joe Blow was just doing business no different than usual - but the cops attempting to go for Joe Blow anyway. The people that ran twitter have concisely stated that the FBI did not direct them to take down tweets - but that DT did. Lets all pray that justice is done and that DT is held to account for ALL his crimes.

That only works if you're a congressman doing get away driving 😂

The journalists who were hand picked by musk and given the cherry picked emails by musk seem to be the sellouts. Still, it's nice to know that taibbi's income has tripled and his business expanded since doing musk this favour.

They've all sold their souls for party politics. The Republicans did it under GW Bush, and in the same way the Dems will totally collapse into a vacuum that allows some honest people to emerge, with guys like Lynch barely historical footnotes.

“Son: it’s not that I sold out, rather, I bought in!”

Unions and dems are communist

Once you have a taste of private jet lifestyle. It’s hard to come back from that

exactly... its a game of semantics to say that they requested it to be looked at.

Trump demanding tweets be taken down because he was offended is his way of saying 'take it down'. An interesting question I have not heard asked is during the whole time of trumps presidency did the FBI send similar requests to twitter? Were there more or less? Don't you think this would be useful information?

Code

It's like the mafia saying nice windows you have in your store, shame if they were broken. The business owner then pays the protection money. Yes I compared the FBI to the Mafia.

@@althepalno1164 whatever

Start with Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus

Bought by Musk, used by musk and the MAGA crazies. Completely discredited as journalists now.

No he ain’t he vote’s for communism.

@@althepalno1164 discredited by whom? Whatever your opinion is, it doesn't negate the work he's done for his fellow citizens. You can't unblow that whistle.

@@thomashasty2936 communism? Was that on the ballot?

@@TheJoshestWhite it is NOW!

he was at twiiter when he said that

Gotta pay real close attention. It was revealed by a congresswoman earlier this week that psychological tactics were used in the choice of wording the FBI would use it in corresponding emails, and how they would frame many of the cases. This isn't uncommon in the intelligence communities. They are to get the information by any means necessary sometimes. If you get a chance, you will have to dig hard, but they are out there. Find a report on the files and look at the emails and all the language used for yourself. The twitter execs aren't blameless, and they probably know that. However, they are only human, and they were up against the United States Government.. and it's wants. Ask anyone in history how that's gone for them.

😂😂😂😂You need evidence to the contrary to say it was perjury. There is none. And this is not a trial?

Doesn't have to be pressure... asking nicely is just as bad. Asking at all is the issue.

@@rigget86 exactly. What business is it of the FBI whether something is against a private company's TOS. By "inquiring" about whether individual posts or accounts were breaking Twitter's TOS they were creating inherent pressure on the Twitter employees. That's not even before we go into the times they went to the press about posts Twitter decided not to take down, and then intimated it would happen again if Twitter did not comply.

You caught that too, huh? 🤣

Yes, I see they are not allowing them to explain.

That's when Dems turn on the Ad Hom attacks.

I'm not sure what they actually driving at with these questions. It's just words

Example please? What is actually happening is that Taibbi tries to squirm out of a simple, honest direct answer and begins to waffle or obfuscate and has to be brought back to being relevant.

@@althepalno1164 have you stopped beating your spouse? It's a simple question, so please answer yes or no

​@@althepalno1164 at the 3 minute mark, loud and clear Hellen Keller.

@@althepalno1164

@@althepalno1164 I think the example is the video we both just watched

Exactly--the 2016 stuff was NOT a legitimate predicate for censoring in 2020!

Can you point out a question that he werent allowed to answer truthfully? Also, if taibbi doesnt answer truthfully, we should charge him with perjury :O

In fact, they are not allowing them to answer or at least beyond yes or no. Most of these questions might allow for more elaboration than yes/no

Gym Jordan. He’s a boss of ignoring the sexual abuse of numerous athletes he coached. But aside from all that, sure?

Sure is heroic to be in the pocket of elon musk xD

Example please? Thanks.

He can't handle the truth 3:00

​@@althepalno1164 at the 3 minute mark, loud and clear.

@@althepalno1164 are you ray epps

He acts as though he's a prosecutor talking to a defendant. He's not in a courtroom, he's not a prosecutor, and Taibbi isn't a defendant. So the Congressmen not only looks stupid, he looks meanspirited and worse, as though he doesn't really want to hear what the witness has to say.

Except it wasnt all true.. Much like how the election wasnt stolen from trump despite all the republicans crying foul! We now know they didnt even think it was stolen themselves. They just lied and tried to steal the election. But apparently no republican cares about the cops that died to defend the country against the terrorists that attacked the nation!

FBI been flagging dodgy tweets since twitter was formed. No demand was made. An interesting bit of missing information would be what percentage of tweets flagged by the FBI were actually taken down? Then we could tell if it was a demand or not.

😊😊👍

FBI believed it violeted the ToS but left it up to twitter to decide. whats hard to understand about that? Other than it not fitting your dishonest narrative.

Case closed, “they said what we wanted to hear”

And he talked about 1 troll farm the FBI said helped Donald Trump with the election lol. That troll farm took the government to court for freedom of speech btw 😅.

Ha, ha, ha... you mean just like Gaetz, Johnson, MTG, and Boebert try to do.

​@Sprawling Man why aren't you for America first?

@@Ricky043 If by 'America First' you mean the corrupt grifting far right MAGA movement, it's because he is a true American. Why do republicans always try to stop any bills that actually help Americans?

@@Ricky043 America first at what? The largest prison population in the world, the highest gun ownership in the world, the highest gun violence in the world, the leading cause of death for children being gun violence, the only country that has an average of three mass shootings a day, the only first world country that teaches students how to react during a mass shooting event, the only country in the world that teaches students how to survive a traffic stop. America is also the only first-world country where an average of 3 unarmed citizens are killed every day, where law enforcement has more rights than citizens, and the only developed country that treats poverty as a crime. The US continues to have such a racial divide that now laws have been passed to stop teaching real history in schools so that the US will not face up to their racist past and will not discuss it. Yep, sure. America First.

@@sprawlingman8277 You could always move to north Korea and bad mouth them and see what it gets you.

who then went against his own principles and published the "twitter files" thus growing his following 3fold and which since most were subscription based...earning him millions...but no never about the money....the twitter files is bout him getting hand picked posts fed to him by Elon Musk without question or objection...."once you start getting handed things , then you've lost. They have you at that point and you just gotta get out of that habit ...you just cant cross that line"...Matt Taibi to Josh Rogan.....yet he admitted he was hand picked posts from " a source"...yeah ok...and has then since breached his own principles...(as a journalist it is your first job to investigate the source, the content, the truth)....MAN OF THE YEAR.....REALLY?

Evidence? Oh, trump told you. 🤣🤣

@@althepalno1164 Yeah of course. He called me last night 🙄 It doesn’t take a genius to see through Mr. Roths motives to lie.

​@@althepalno1164 let's stay on page junior

@@thebunz7 😂😂

Flagging potential unlawful communications is part of their job. Didn't you know that?

@@althepalno1164 Using Big Tech to Censor & Supress Factual Content = FACIST Using the DOJ/FBI to Intimidate Parents @ Public Board meetings = FACIST Using the DOJ/FBI to harrass & intimidate Political Opponents etc = FACIST

@@althepalno1164 Found the fascism supporter, you would have LOVED living in 1936 Germany.

@@althepalno1164 ok mussolini

@@trevoravery9270 I know lots of you guys don't have a problem with drug dealers and pedos chatting with your kids on social media, but I for one am glad that there is a system in place where you or I can report it and have the gov ask the social media site to check the validity of the complaint. Are you a member of ANTIFA? Your post would suggest that.

Do you often filibuster when you're asked questions? Notice how it's almost only Taibbi that is interupted. Because the other witness just give straight forward and succinct answers instead of ranting on and trying to run out the clock.

Dems didn't deny the election results, they blamed Russia for the results, punished Russia, expelling diplomats, added more sanctions (if I remember correctly) and then later, began arming and training people in Ukraine "to fight Russia over there so that we don't have to fight Russia here" and started developing enough of a growing threat in Ukraine that eventually Putin had to order the invasion or be overthrown for somebody else to do it

Except that wasnt true.

@@andreaskarlsson5251 what part?

🤣🤣grow a pair.

@@althepalno1164

Yes, when the Gov't shows up at your door, it means you are going to lose your $, or your freedom, maybe both!

Yeah but he kind of falls into supporting the Democrat's mischaracterization of wikileaks as Russian. They "proved" that a small group of Russians were acting as Trolls against Hillary Clinton and opened a grand jury against them (that went nowhere). The wikileaks was from an unnamed source and people in the intelligence community could only conjecture and had no proof where it was from. Democrats took one such conjecture as absolute proof it was Russia.

LOL I just watched that movie last night and thought the same thing!

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Hey, the FBI guy said he didn't do it ... 😄

Not just the Democratic Party; others involved and directly participated parties include the U.S. Pentagon, U.S. CIA, U.S. Military (Navy), and also many elements of the Republican Party. This act of international ecological/economic terrorism, and act of war, was committed by both Dems, by plenty of Repubs, together with elements of U.S. military and government that are supposed to be apolitical. The U.S. is a failed state at this point ruled by the military industrial complex. You can't just blame only the Dems for this. This is systemic in the U.S.. The Military Industrial Complex owns both parties.

Well considering Biden straight up forshadowed that he was going to do it...

Whoever's working the Biden puppet is definitely in on it.

EXACTLY

Yep. Same goes for when the irs shows up at your house after your congressional hearings. Ask matt

Hahahaha. Me too.

ooh we got an internet tough guy here! LMAO.

@@andreaskarlsson5251 Not an Internet tough guy or a non-Internet tough guy. It's just a joke about how the fellow kept saying the same thing over and over and over and over...

@@Darin.Pearson "over and over again" he said it like 3 times because people wouldnt shut up when he only has 5 minutes to ask questions.

@@andreaskarlsson5251 You are correct, Andreas. It was three time so, apparently I exaggerated. However, I would ask you to consider that the questioners tend to create their own problem in this regard by demanding "Yes or No" answers to complex questions. It seems that will inevitably lead to these conflicts and, could be significant if the "Yes or No" answers carry weight with respect to "Lying to Congress" or impugning a journalist's integrity. In this instance, I had the same reaction as the original commenter so, it seemed funny to me and I commented. One rule I try to enforce on myself and abide by on the Internet is "Don't be an Internet tough guy". I prefer a thoughtful exchange of ideas. But, it did strike me as funny with the "Reclaiming my time" repetition.

yep. pathetic lawyer tactic. they have no interest in the truth.

Even if he's completely had his eyes opened, and even if he disposes the modern Democrat party, there is an advantage to him specifically being able to say he is a Democrat who voted for Biden, while calling out all of the Democrats lies. Then it's not so easy for them to paint him as politically motivated, which he is not.

Somebody with integrity has to stay and turn off the lights.

He isn't a democrat.

@@1848revolt The chair said he was.

@@tedroybal5231 not correct. He said he was a liberal. As in old school liberal. Not a democrat.

The funny thing is, only in a few far right channels is this being portrayed as anything other than a major blowup for the republicans. The whole world is laughing at the MAGA attempts to attack America.

Why does the far right hate the record to be accurate and truthful? Is it a requirement to be a republican?

I know right?!?

exactly - nothing but deflection with stuff that is completely irrelevant to this hearing.

Im curious what you think real media is?

@@andreaskarlsson5251 Well it's not shows like Maddow and Carlson. Real media for me is journalism that does it's best not be bias. Just present the facts.

@@lenr7068 I didnt ask what isnt real media. I asked for some media that is real according to you.

@@andreaskarlsson5251 You want names...

@@lenr7068 just a simple network name. That's all. Shouldnt be that hard.

ya... he was in the middle of answering, the congressman cuts him off and scolds him for not answering.

All they want is gotcha answers for their liberal media overlords.

He can do what he wants. Im not supporting it however

It not a left or right thing, it comes with being arrogant enough to believe you should have power over your fellow citizens. That's one of the very many evils of politics, politicians, and their supporters.

I know right?!?

You guys sounding desperate. Both sides do exactly that when the person questioned wants to drift off into something not relevant. For example when Taibbi was asked if his business had profited from this story and he was squirming and saying - well yeah, but I have also been hiring since and blah. That is not relevant. The answer was yes, so much so he could expand his business 3 fold and hire more staff. We don't want to know his hopes and dreams for the future, we just want a simple answer to a simple question.

@@althepalno1164 Frankly, that whole question is irrelevant, not to mention patently absurd and hypocritical coming from such unapologetic capitalists. "Oh no, Matt doesn't work entirely for free at all times!" So fucking what? Was the information he revealed true? That's what's relevant. The Democrats aren't interested in what's relevant right now because it doesn't support their right-authoritarian extremist narrative of the moment. So we get more neo-McCarthyite conspiracy theory "red scare" bullshit and the smearing of a journalist who exposed unbelievable corruption ... as Democrats work desperately to _distract from_ said corruption.

@@n0wheregrrl "So fucking what? Was the information he revealed true? That's what's relevant." The problem is the information so far revealed does not actually show what the MAGA nuts are claiming. The problem is the information is cherry-picked and is missing already known about demands by the trump administration. The problem is these sham hearings are destroying the credibility of the GQP (not difficult) and have no real meaning apart from an attempt to play to the MAGA base. The word is embarrassed for you guys.

* A lot of politicians from both sides like to make a speech before they get to their question. They waste so much time listening to themselves talk that they don't have time to allow a person to answer. They have to cut the person off so they can go on another long winded diatribe that accomplishes nothing but to stroke their own egos, and gives their grandchildren something to brag about from the Congressional Records.

@@althepalno1164 Hm, I got a notification about your reply but can't see the reply. Did you delete it? Regardless, why don't you actually read the "Twitter Files" first before rushing to comment on them? I realize that reading can be hard, and reading carefully and with an open mind can be harder still, especially for people on the Blue MAGA far right such as yourself, but ... give it a go all the same.

yeah xD and the democrats keep bringing up this "internet rearch agency" and their troll campains as if that made much of a difference. Those were only funded with a fraction of the money that got poured into the exact same stuff by Super PACs. A tea-cup of water into a full bathtub.

the Democratic party as we knew it has ceased to exist for about a decade, it seems. Biden is a puppet of a bunch of hateful, democracy hating communists who infiltrated the party. It's embarrassing and disappointing, to say the very least.