… And if he does, the outlook is worse.
According to both the Senate Intelligence Committee (SSCI), via Chairman Mark Warner, and the House Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) via Mike Turner, the Chinese social media platform TikTok represents a “national security risk” to the United States. South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, soon to be the vice-presidential candidate for the DeSantis-Noem 2024 ticket, has also called TikTok a national security threat and banned it in the state. Now, think about that carefully.
What is it about a social media app allowing short video sharing that would constitute a national security risk? The answer is not about dog and cat videos, or dancing diatribes or funny, weird or goofy content; nor is the national security risk attached to any data of the app users or content providers. The national security risk is found in the ability to influence public opinion that is not under the control of the United States government, or more specifically the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS).
The need for control is a reaction to fear. TikTok, as a social media platform, is not considered a national security threat because the Chinese government can control it. TikTok is considered a national security threat because the United States government does not control it.
For several years CTH has been outlining the relationship between DHS and social media. Currently, the headlines are filled with stories about Twitter and revelations of censorship and government influence coming from the purchase of the platform by Elon Musk. I promise you things are not what they seem.
Let me put some context to the dynamic that will hopefully clarify what is going on, and perhaps the context will help explain what you are seeing and what you are not seeing as this unfolds. There are going to be a lot of citations to fill in the details and understanding the modern Fourth Branch of Government is critical. The bigger picture also explains why SSCI Chairman Mark Warner said “people will die” if the seized Trump Mar-a-Lago documents become public.
♦ Elevator Speech: Twitter is to the U.S. government as TikTok is to China. The overarching dynamic is the need to control public perceptions and opinions. DHS has been in ever increasing control of Twitter since the public-private partnership was formed in 2011/2012. Jack Dorsey lost control and became owner emeritus; arguably, Elon Musk has no idea (you’ll see proof toward the end).
To explain the background activity of Twitter in a way that readers could understand, I used the metaphor of Twitter as Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop.
…”The metaphorical Jack had a great idea, open a coffee shop where the beverages were free and use internal advertising as the income subsidy to operate the business. Crowds came for the free coffee, comfy couches, fellowship, conversation and enjoyment.
It didn’t matter where Jack got the coffee, how he paid for it, or didn’t, or what product advertising the customers would be exposed to while there. Few people thought about such things. Curiously, it didn’t matter what size the crowd was; in the backroom of Jack’s Coffee Shop they were able to generate massive amounts of never-ending free coffee at extreme scales.
Over time, using the justification of parking lot capacity and township regulations, not everyone would be able to park and enter. Guards were placed at the entrance to pre-screen customers. Some were denied. A debate began.”…
Here’s what happened….
In/around 2011 and 2012 the U.S. Government, Obama administration and the U.S. State Dept., came into Jack’s Coffee Shop and asked him for help.
The govt officials needed to deliver massive amounts of coffee to their allies in Egypt, Libya and the middle east to support the Arab Spring party. Jack told the officials he was willing to help but didn’t have the capacity to deliver on that scale. The officials told Jack not to worry, they would handle that aspect – he just needed to agree to the partnership and let them utilize his business. Jack agreed.
[Note, the timing here is not accidental. The operational agreement happened at the same time DHS was fine tuning the domestic surveillance systems to monitor social media platforms and target political opposition. See The Fourth Branch.]
Over the next several weeks, months and eventually years, Jack watched as hundreds of new employees flooded into the business to facilitate the rapid expansion. Along with a myriad of new faces, new equipment was delivered and soon Jack found himself looking at heavy industrial equipment erecting large buildings in the back lots of the property. Coffee urns were replaced with massive industrial coffee delivery systems that far exceeded anything Jack ever imagined.
Business was booming, but slowly Jack realized he had lost control. Jack was riding a dragon.
As the years progressed, thousands of new employees moved into the offices of the new buildings and massive pipelines were producing incredible scales of coffee. Jack noted offices of the United Nations Human Rights Commission were now creating unique blends of coffee for international distribution, and the European Commission had an entire suite of specially trained coffee production engineers creating alternate combinations and flavors.
By 2018 Jack had essentially become an “owner emeritus,” his name was on the shingle, but the day-to-day operation of Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop had turned into an industrial park complex.
Jack saw his personal wealth attached to the success of the business, but operationally his only responsibility was traveling to symposiums and venues where he would stand on stage and wax philosophically about the future of a coffee delivery organization he no longer controlled. Day-to-day operations were now controlled by experts in the scale of massive industrial coffee. Those experts came from the Dept of Homeland Security.
[The Intercept] – […] Behind closed doors, and through pressure on private platforms, the U.S. government has used its power to try to shape online discourse. According to meeting minutes and other records appended to a lawsuit filed by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a Republican who is also running for Senate, discussions have ranged from the scale and scope of government intervention in online discourse to the mechanics of streamlining takedown requests for false or intentionally misleading information.
“Platforms have got to get comfortable with gov’t. It’s really interesting how hesitant they remain,” Microsoft executive Matt Masterson, a former DHS official, texted Jen Easterly, a DHS director, in February.
In a March meeting, Laura Dehmlow, an FBI official, warned that the threat of subversive information on social media could undermine support for the U.S. government. Dehmlow, according to notes of the discussion attended by senior executives from Twitter and JPMorgan Chase, stressed that “we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable.” (read more)
To streamline the operational efficiencies as the industrial coffee system grew, direct portals between the Washington DC government offices and Jack’s Magic Coffee shop were created. Officials no longer needed to travel to the location of Jack’s Coffee Shop in order to operate the valves, mixers, grinders and systems to generate the scale of blends being produced.
Experts could now use direct portals to the facility to operate the coffee production systems remotely, with a limited number of specially trained (FBI) coffee engineers doing the laborious tasks and maintenance at the facility.
The badges were intimidating to Jack who went to sleep every night under the realization he no longer had any clue about how the coffee shop communication business was operating.
[…] The extent to which the DHS initiatives affect Americans’ daily social feeds is unclear. During the 2020 election, the government flagged numerous posts as suspicious, many of which were then taken down, documents cited in the Missouri attorney general’s lawsuit disclosed. And a 2021 report by the Election Integrity Partnership at Stanford University found that of nearly 4,800 flagged items, technology platforms took action on 35 percent — either removing, labeling, or soft-blocking speech, meaning the users were only able to view content after bypassing a warning screen. The research was done “in consultation with CISA,” the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Prior to the 2020 election, tech companies including Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Discord, Wikipedia, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Verizon Media met on a monthly basis with the FBI, CISA, and other government representatives. According to NBC News, the meetings were part of an initiative, still ongoing, between the private sector and government to discuss how firms would handle misinformation during the election. (keep reading)
After several years of increasing distance from the Coffee Shop operation he initially started, eventually Jack decided it was silly to own an industrial coffee delivery system that he didn’t control. So, Jack decided to sell his shingle to someone else.
Enter, Elon Musk.
Billionaire Elon Musk, a man intimately familiar with large industrial systems and government, had been watching the disgruntled visitors to Jack’s Coffee Shop who were no longer permitted to enter. Musk saw an inequity between the amount of coffee that was available, and the scarcity of the coffee amid a community blacklisted by the operational executives and managers of the shop.
With expressions of both interest and fellowship, Mr. Elon Musk told Mr. Jack Dorsey he would take ownership of Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop and remove any discriminatory guards that were now controlling permitted entry. Jack had no aversion to Elon and eventually a deal was brokered.
After the transfer of sale was complete, Mr. Musk fired many of the guards and then set about checking the payroll to identify which group of shop employees were actually involved in the generation of coffee, and which employees were involved in promotion of the industrial coffee delivery system that were no longer needed.
Within this process Elon Musk begins to discover the complex nature of what, at least at the surface, appeared to be an uncomplicated coffee shop. Why is there a 500-room glass walled office building on the backside of the coffee shop? What is going on in that building that has anything to do with selling coffee?
If you’ve read this far, you might think my metaphor is a little over the top. Perhaps you thought that when I originally started saying there was much more to Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop a long time ago.
Well, thankfully, someone of reasonably intelligent curiosity finally asked Elon Musk the right question about this direct portal from DHS into the coffee shop. How Mr. Musk replied might surprise you. You see, the Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop metaphor is evidenced in the Musk response.
Twitter owner Elon Musk has no idea what the DHS portal into the coffee shop is for. WATCH:
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To put it in brutally honest terms, The United States Dept of Homeland Security is the operating system running in the background of Twitter.
You can debate whether Elon Musk honestly didn’t know all this before purchasing Twitter from his good friend Jack Dorsey, and/or what the scenario of owner/operator motive actually is. Decide for yourself.
For me, I feel confident that all of the conflicting and odd datapoints only reconcile in one direction. DHS, via CISA, controls Twitter.
Wittingly or unwittingly (you decide) Elon Musk is now the face of that govt controlled enterprise.
If you concur with my researched assessment, then what you see being released by Elon Musk in the Twitter Files is actually a filtered outcome as a result of this new ownership dynamic.
Put simply, DHS stakeholders, to include the DOJ, FBI and Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), are mitigating any consequential public exposure of their domestic surveillance activity by controlling and feeding Mr. Musk selected information about their prior Twitter operations.
If TikTok is a national security threat, then TikTok is to Beijing as Twitter is to Washington DC.
The larger objective of U.S. involvement in social media has always been monitoring and surveillance of the public conversation, and then ultimately controlling and influencing public opinion.
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Resources:
Large Numbers of FBI Agents Work Inside Twitter
Govt Structured Cloud Computing is Social Media operating System
Tech Platforms Connected to DHS Portals
Examples of Govt Influence of Social Media Content
[…] “Intelligence agencies backed new startups designed to monitor the vast flow of information across social networks to better understand emerging narratives and risks.” [HERE]
Understanding Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop
Leaked DHS Documents Showing Connections
I see said the blind man.
As he picked up his hammer and saw.
Yes. His explanation was …unconvincing.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 6, 2022
I would love to know what Baker’s “explanation” was.
That it would be a threat to national security of Musk saw the documents.
Possible. But Baker was an employee who was telling the owner that the owner couldn’t see documents that he owned.
I would like to know what exactly what happened when Baker “was exited” from Twitter. One hopes he was marched out the front door by security guards.
Probably free to work with garland and friends now.
Maybe, but his reputation could make things challenging outside of the fbi/doj – you know – in the real world.
Liars gonna lie. Baker is human garbage.
treasonous scum
Can’t wait to see the comments that Trump was right again.
Taibbi might end up getting a Pulitzer. But Sundance figured it out long ago.
Lol, the Pulitzer is controlled by the same cabal that used to control Twitter.
“South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, soon to be the vice-presidential candidate for the DeSantis-Noem 2024 ticket…”
Oh my goodness, Sundance, you crack me up.
Not that I think you’re wrong, heck, I’ve been around here long enough to think you’re a time traveler like President Trump.
Just reading your words of what the dirty divers most likely have planned for what’s left of the GOP is pretty dern funny.
What i am hoping will happen….
when our “betters” offer us desantis and noem on a silver platter, the Republican party ceases to exist.
The people who refuse to see desantis and noem for what they are (and the people who just honestly don’t know), will at that time have the scales removed from their eyes.
A gal can dream.
I’m with you, Bambam.
Scales falling from a lot of people’s eyes for many reasons would be a beautiful thing to witness.
Does Noem know what she is?
When Amanda Devine appeared on Tucker Carlson, she said something to the effect that this was only a very small part of the story, that the emails released did not include the intelligence community interference and involvement in the process.
I have been patiently waiting for the “more” that Elon Musk promised to drop, but there has been nothing further. I have wondered if DHS, DOJ, NSA, or whoever has contacted Mr. Musk and told him the consequences for him if he releases more.
I pointed out on Twitter that they admitted in those file drops that celebrities also had “backdoor” access (“Trusted Partnership”) as well, and that not only did they censor Hunter’s Laptop, but they also censored Pizzagate. Well, Chrissy Teigen’s pizza tweets disappeared into thin air. Hmmm. Ok. Balenciaga story comes to light, Kanye appears in a black sack cloth on his face, and then Elon comes in and does this big file drop. It was a diversion from the real story. I’m suspended on Twitter now for making this correlation. Where is it allowed to talk about any of this???? Somewhere easy for an old lady. I can’t make sense of 8 chan.
You can comment about that or most anything on Truth Social.
It could be that in releases, Musk is following the James O’Keefe Project Veritas model.
Release things in batches and give enough time between batches for people to digest and for those being exposed to dig themselves deeper in their lies.
I think you mean Miranda Devine. The NYP journalist who broke the Hunter laptop story in October 2020.
LOL! Yes. Sorry, had a brain bubble.
You could tell in the interview that he was extremely holding back due to most likely an NDA already served on him.
Hmmm.
A few notes.
The coffee shop was never constructed by Jack to begin with. He was just a pretty face recruited from NYU (although, the way things seem to stack up, an exploration into Mom, Dad, and grandparents seems like a good idea).
Just because DHS doesn’t want Tik Tok to enter the propoganda field of play doesn’t mean Tik Tok is benign. This is an instance where the enemy of my enemy is still my enemy. Tik tok content in China is wholesome and promotes learning and industriousness, while Tik Tok here is subversive to good values.
If DHS is behind Musk, why does DHS want to put a spotlight on James Baker’s nefarious activities?
If that’s the case, then we have an internecine war between DHS and the FBI going on.
That conclusion doesn’t pass the logic test.
Musk is up to something new. Something the DS doesn’t like.
“If DHS is behind Musk, why does DHS want to put a spotlight on James Baker’s nefarious activities?”
They aren’t and they don’t.
US Gubmint is way better at subverting democracy here than China could ever dream to be.
I’m not totally sure of that.
There are so many US “well educated” CCP members now, it’s a problem of being out numbered on “american” comment boards.
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Lol (Elon’s reply)
I’m convinced Jack was feeding Elon info. I think Jack found out it had become a giant Intel opp for the Government and it was out of his control. Jack and Elon both decided Elon buying it was the best thing.
I’m not…EM had a due diligence period to decide to go forward with the purchase. He stood to make a ton…why jeopardize that by spilling the beans…(haha)?
Jack knew what was going on…his idea was expanded on by the individuals SD has mentioned, hijacked and taken to the next level.
Guarantee you this…the cabal is trying to extort EM and control him.
Got the same impression after watching a live youtube chat that both Jack and Elon were on (with 2 other individuals), that they were friends and that Elon decided to step up and help his friend Jack out of a tough situation.
Time will tell how much influence he can maintain as far as twitter becoming open to free speech, he has to be quite an expert in balancing the demands of the CCP where his vehicles in China are built, while balancing the demands of the US government that permits, and finances a large part of, his star link and Space X endeavors. Adding the work of making twitter truly a free speech platform into the mix – that really is quite a juggling act, and can appreciate he has already put out the “I love life, and I didn’t kill myself” memes.
Hope he is that good of a juggler.
oh, and that youtube of Elon and Jack and the other 2 tech gurus was taken down within an hour of it first appearing, and I haven’t been able to find it since so figure it was a fluke that I saw it at all.
Interesting. Now the fEdS are investigating Elon’s real baby Neuralink. It’s simple. We stay in control of the coffee shop and we back off of Neuralink. Then we tell you how you can use that to our benefit as well
hurting animals didn’t seem to bother the fEdS when Fauci was doing his damage to those beagles.
That whole story made me sick. Beagles can be ferocious in packs. I’d like to see how………… ah! You can finish it
So there are digital Hoovervilles, but not the Herbert kind.
LOVE IT
KASH PATEL CLAIMS JAMES BAKER’s JOB TWICE ! ( FBI & TWITTER )
OUTSIDE COUNSEL for TWITTER –> PERKINS COIE
Bannon Battleground on LINDELL TV1
“Put simply, DHS is mitigating any consequential public exposure by controlling and feeding Mr. Musk selected information about prior Twitter operations.”
It would seem that any plausible deniability for Elon would dissolve relatively quickly.
I know he has to run his enterprises at a macro level but there are some things the owner would definitely want to know.
It also seems and has been pointed out by tree members here the issue of not releasing the entire data set.
And not having a more “diverse” team screening through the data. This is not a good look as far as I can tell.
So the upshot is that DHS will tolerate Musk’s ownership up to a point. Twitter will now be a sort of “controlled opposition”.
But, like Tucker going DEFCON 1 on the stolen 2020 election (he didn’t go near it–and still hasn’t), Musk will not be allowed to expose the extent of government involvement, plus the government will still maintain nominal control over some topics.
That about right, Sundance?
I will personally hold out for Musk taking a more functional and independent relationship with DHS. A turf war is in the works and Musk is a skilled operator in protecting a $44 billion turf.
Hmm…..what’s Musk’s leverage? Exposure? That would be the same as Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).
Maybe Musk likes that kind of high-stakes game of chicken, but of late, the government has shown an indifference to exposure, but a lust for revenge.
Sounds like you have explored the personal sources of leverage and have consented to the opposition in the past. Projection can result in mistaken results.
Then this feels oddly familiar…
Musk is the new Durham. 🙄His job is to release just enough to make people believe change is happening when he’s just covering up the cover-up of collusion and corruption.😡
Musk has already released way more than Durham ever did.
Sure he has. 🤣
He gave Baker enough time to scrub the FBI’s files documenting their involvement in twitter before Matt released them… 🙄
I’m sure Elon is a white hat. 🥱
Good be!
And people are on twatter why???????
You are seeing the natural progression of a concept that pre-dates major social media impact, from when DoD thought they’d field something called Total Information Awareness. How wonderful; the users are going to do the work and tell us all about themselves. Narrative control is the output. But there was sufficient hue & cry from within DoD’s own employees that it was disappeared. You believe they disappeared the idea, right? Like the Disinformation Board was disappeared, right?
Anyone? Bueller?
BREAKING NEWS
Infamous attorney and recently Twitter counsel Jim Baker was “vetting” the Twitter Dump given to two journalists.
This Hornets nest is what has slowed the recent release #2.
Elon Musk fired Baker today.
Baker allegedly erased the FBI involvement from the Twitter Files Dump #1.
Supplemental Dump #1 coming shortly?
It all got wiped.
Like with something different than a cloth.
AT LEAST 4 LAYERS of DATA BACKUPS AVAILABLE.
ANYTHING about Baker ” erasing ” stuff IS SMOKE
It can be retrieved
> The national security risk is found in the ability to influence public opinion that is not under the control of the United States government, or more specifically the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS).
There’s a bit more than that, they also use the app to datamine info about US citizens. They’ve already done things like catfishing our military… to say nothing of Congress.
Imagine if the Chinese acquired the same blackmail material on congress, or anyone else, that our own intelligence community has acquired.
Well, how many things do u want him to go after at once?
If not Musk, who would b better to run Twatter?
Who else stepped up and exposed as much as he did?
I cannot believe that Elon Musk did not know he was a corrupt traitor rino. In the mean time what did he get rid of. No wonder the info Musk tweeted out Friday was not that earthshaking. It is too easy for NYT and wash compost to ignore.
What are you talking about? Do you have the correct Baker?
And since they ignored what was released, anything more earth shattering will be even more ignored.
Or actively worked against.
Musk bought a Crime scene & the gang that couldn’t shoot straight Spy Agency.
Yep
TikTok is a national security threat because it rots the brains of our youth.
Very true. And like the censorship/narrative steering at Twitter, the rancid, immoral, degenerative content on TikTok is deliberately amplified by the CCP algorithms to weaken America before the final takedown of the USA (in their long term war).
The US has traditionally been the most wealthy large nation. Because of the huge amounts available, courtesy of the non-represented US taxpayer, the only conclusion is that the US is the most corrupt country in the world. China does some real bad things but they don’t pretend.
Fauci’s Daughter works for twitter. Read it on Breitbart.
Combatting “vaccine disinformation”, via censorship, one would presume?
IMO Elon is a fool or possibly just another “Jack Coffee Shop” pawn if he doesn’t reach out and discuss with Sundance directly the real operation as Sundance has laid out here.
Key questions:
1) Does Elon realize what he has bought and who really runs it?
2) Elon has told us about the front end of Twitter and all the speech control that we have all seen but when is he going to talk about the “Back End” of Twitter as that seems to be potential the real story.
3) Hey Elon are the servers even Twitters or are they really the property of USG?
IMO Sundance is spot on with his analysis and theory. And if Musk ignores exposing the back end and just addresses the front end of Twitter then IMO this whole thing is just another sham.
I think a smart move for Elon would be to sue Dorsey/Twitter. He thought he was purchasing a social media platform, not spy equipment owned/used by the US Military
Explains why only the Biden campaign seemed to be implicated in this first round.
Curious as to the latest developments.
Is EM running a huge con?
Putting out tidbits of info such as releasing info to Matt Talibbi as to have the “powers that be” come to him and say enough is enough…what’s your price for silence? Could be a ton.
Possible or plausible…would love to be a fly on the wall…
Do you remember how scared the ex CEO of Overstock was? They will do that to Elon.
Why did sundance not list the countries that the Magic coffee beans are imported from–Brazil, Vietnam, Columbia..?
All failed jocularity aside, Musk has purchased a monstrous and pernicious tool of the gov’t and I doubt they will let it go without a no holds barred fight. The Twitter purchase and the 1st release of inside info was encouraging but the reality of the corruption is now setting in. The entire DC gov’t, all major Big Tech social media and the MSM including all the major networks are on the Dem Gov’t side. It appears that both Elon and Taibii are shocked at how massive the corruption is and neither of them are naïve wimps.
Will the DOJ search for a bogus reason to indict and ruin Musk or will they use more brutal methods. Or will he fold? Has the FBI raided and arrested James Woods yet? The unbought elected Republicans and other Conservatives should be strongly supporting those that are trying to improve America like Elon (assuming he’s a straight shooter) and James. Does P Trump just consider Elon a social media competitor and not a potential game changer?
I think they will let twitter go. It is being rendered useless. They will find another platform to take over. They have the goods on magic Jack so they will follow him to the next one.
I seriously doubt he wasn’t aware of the portal monkey business. He knew it was happening but like some of us had to learn the hard way, he found out the depth and scope of the actual psy-ops constantly running in the background. For instance, he prolly didn’t know that the government was behind the antifa shenanigans. We knew this but I genuinely think he was shocked in finding the extent to which the gubmint kills its citizens. I think he’s in shock.
Hard to take.
I caught the-Noem banning Tik-Tok in her State.
Not good for her to do that.
Good grief…there is
Twitter
Tik tok
Parler
Gab
Truth social
Gettr
Rocfin
Locals
Odyssey
Telegram
Those are just a few off the top of my head—-
Stupid move by her on so many levels……
Other state govs are following suit- no use of it on state owned phones, by state employees…
I can see it on Government phones.
I don’t believe any apps should be on any Government agency phone.
People want to be on Facebook, Twitter,etc….fine..just do it on your phone on your time.
And just now, he just posted the transcript of FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan. Read it here.
https://technofog.substack.com/p/fbi-agent-testimony-warnings-of-a
A quick, small connection point…
in his Dec 4 Twitter feed, Matt Tiabbi linked to a Jonathan Turley article on James Baker.
Six Degrees from James Baker: A Familiar Figure Reemerges With the Release of the Twitter Files. In the article, Turley links to familiar players with ties to the Brookings Institute. The articles are a good refresher on some of the actors…
sundance just tweeted a pic of James Baker taken by Ben Wittes (Lawfare/Brookings) in San Francisco (FBI Field office for Elvis Chan, Silicon Valley, etc)
https://t.co/BGULMYq2QS
Whoops… forgot to add that the specific Tiabbi tweet was the one replied to by Elon…
https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1600237095364096000?cxt=HHwWgMCjmZ3Kl7UsAAAA
Kudos to Clayton Morris -Redacted – for bringing this up to Elon Musk!!
I believe his YouTube channel is definitely worth watching!
I think that Sundance, being so familiar on what is going on, might have assumed a little too much of what Musk knows about Twitter but he course corrected.
I have also always thought that President Trump doesn’t really know what we assume he knows about what has happened to him.
Sure, Sundance wants us/you to think Elon Musk is naive. (Jesus wept).
Then Sundance wants you/us to think The Psychopath-Leader(s) gives a damn about what we/you think as if fraudulent elections are needed when TikTok Twitter so easily moves the herd. (Jesus wept harder)
Bingo Sundance. I wonder if Elon can just blow Twitter up? Tear it down, demolish it into a ashes and send it to outer space in one of his rockets.
Hate to say it, but I think this is an overly dramatic take on things. I have no idea what Musk knew and when he knew it. Doesn’t really matter. What matters is, he is cleaning house. Relentlessly. Fearlessly. The way men should always do things. The way Trump should have cleared out the DOJ. With no regard to what Maggie Haberman or Bob Woodward thinks about it. Or Mitch McConnell. Deal with that when and if you have to. Make them feel you. Stay on offense. This is what the next generation of Trumpism without Trump needs to look like. Courage is contagious. Donald Trump gave up a great life in sacrifice for his country. He hit it as hard as he could. His greatness was not that he was able to fix everything, it was that he was able to expose so much, and hopefully inspire so many. Let’s hope more guys pick up the ball and run the way Elon has. And let’s hope President Trump gets the fire in the belly once again. We need him on his game.
One acid test is the children.
In this spiritual war, one side particularly wants to destroy children, while the other wants to protect children.
Musk cleaning out 44,000 child porn accounts doesn’t serve that well to advance trust on the good guy team (sadly, not that many people care enough), but that action is like oil to water for the dark side.
Seems like that points the compass towards the white hats.
What if they are just clearing out some of the lower-tier riff-raff?
Twitter was a CIA/NSA operation, at least since 2018. A spook OPERATION! against US citizens working on behalf of the demo-commies. This is sickening.
The shiny META building doesn’t share land with the US Military for nothing!
Personally, I think Elon Musk knew. There is not one of his businesses that is not connected to the US government in some way. Perhaps Musk is working in concert with DHS, as DHS may have felt that Twitter usage is dropping due to the bannings, alternatives to Twitter, etc., and wanted to ‘revamp’ it in order to gain Twitter’s past audience. Perhaps Musk was naive enough to think that there was some compromise that could be made, giving the public a more ‘free speech’ platform while enjoining with DHS.
As I write this, a question comes to my mind. Did the alleged $40+ billion used to ‘purchase’ Twitter actually come from Musk? Or is he just the front man, and the funds came from the US government??
A simple extrapolation. The govt controls FB also. Meta was Zucks way of running away.
IMHO Elon is way to dependent upon government support in all of his business to be free to run Twitter independently. There were so many questions during the purchase that seemly weren’t addressed but somehow were overlooked and the price tag never was negotiated. Rich or not 44 billion is still not throw away money for a company that he even declared close to bankruptcy. Something else is going on. Perhaps the three letter agencies are getting nervous because the natives are getting restless and they want to ever so much tilt the playing field back towards the right. Time will tell. But don’t bet on anyone going to jail for even a day.
I just cannot see Twitter at the center of a free speech issue. I see it at the center of the largest and most dangerous anti-trust issue this nation has ever seen.
Musk as a “champion of free speech ” is an illusion – a distraction. If he was in 100% control of Twitter, he could leverage Twitter to turn social media into the greatest instrument of free speech ever seen. He would be not be playing the role of the a more benevolent arbitrator of who can and cannot tweet what – he would be busting up Twitter as a monopoly, creating free market competition based upon free and open interchange of messages between any and all platforms.
1) Private Platform, not Public Square: Twitter is a private platform. The terms and conditions to which a user “clicks OK”, include the removal of user content and even a user’s account – at Twitter’s discretion. Unless Section 230 protection somehow prevents or limits Twitter’s content removal, I do not see anyone, including Musk, having a obligation to protect “free speech”
2) Antitrust not Free Speech: No voice provider censors conversations or deletes customers whose conversations they believe to be “threats to democracy”. If AT&T started doing that, people would move to T-mobile, Verizon, or one of thousands of VOIP providers. There are standards for open exchange of voice calls and text messages which created that system.
3) Busting the Monopoly: The software industry model to do this has been used in thousands of ways in hundreds of industries, on and off the internet. Twitter could open its software interfaces to independent, open standards/software communities and grant royalty free license to any and all variation of it. This would lead to, for example, a Tweet to appear on TruthSocial to a “follower”, just as it would on Twitter. Messages would be replicated, , read and commented upon instantly across a global network of social media servers and apps. No one could, for long, hold a monopoly, censor, spy etc, because those who tried would dramatically lose market share.
This is what Musk would be doing at Twitter if he saw Twitter as a dangerous monopoly and wanted to champion free speech. There is a huge and highly skilled open source community ready to make it happen
AFL Lawsuit Uncovers More Damning CDC Documents Revealing Twitter’s “Partner Support Portal” for COVID-19 Related Censorship and the U.S. Government’s Advancement of “Social Inoculation” Against the “Infodemic” – America First Legal (aflegal.org)
Get caught up in the fed-centric shiny distractions if you must,
MAGA will stay working with the state and local entities…..
There are not as many flashing lights and blowing horns but it is sure more America First productive.
“Let’s go Brandon!”
Sundance’s research and application of research is a distraction? You must be a very important person to make that assumption.
You do realize, don’t you, that even when a five alarm fire is being put out by massive use of equipment and men there are also surgeries being performed at the local hospital on people who really need those surgical procedures??????
A well-implemented battle action manifests the capacity and skill to do more than one thing at a time. If all the soldiers are ordering and shipping ammo, the shortages occurring with mess hall, tanks, and trucks—gonna be a problem.
Thanks, Sharon.
A distraction, as in:
“the ‘biden victory’ was because twitter blocked comments about the hunter laptop”?
The ‘biden victory’ was not because of ballot fraud, refusal to comply with the actual election laws, refusal to clean up the voter rolls (so fake votes are harder to generate), paying vote mules to generate votes, trucking in ‘votes’ after the polls closed, equipment ‘issues”, destruction of vote audit evidence, etc.
but it is all linked together – information control, vote fraud, coverup of evidence…
etc.
Thank you Beau Geste., for your clarity.
I have trouble listening to analysts explain why “Trump” lost when the obvious answer is voter fraud and Trump did not lose.
Fox won’t admit it either. At some point, if the truth cannot be spoken, people accept the lie. But it sure feels wrong when I listen to the comments.We are all victims of disinformation. The Big Lie!
Now we have lost our voice in the vote. Notice how Washington shrugs and moves to spend more money after the election. The game is now totally rigged.
Trump won in 2016 because there were still whitehats like Adm. Rogers and there was a vote blow out that caught the DeepState cheat network off guard.
One can never forget the look of media shock and terror that the HRC rigged 2016 election still elected Trump.
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“Get caught up in the fed-centric shiny distractions if you must,
MAGA will stay working with the state and local entities….. ”
Well that sure worked in Arizona, didn’t it? (sarcasm)
Arizona is like the mafia. Totally under control. They barely hide the fraud. Soon they will not even deny it.. Shame on these people and shame on us if we let it go on.