David Sacks is a key advisor to Elon Musk and one of the principal aides to Musk during the purchase and subsequent takeover of Twitter by the billionaire entrepreneur.
There has been an ongoing debate about whether Elon Musk was aware of the U.S. government and intelligence community control over Twitter prior to the purchase; with many people saying there is no way that Musk could not know given the scale of the money involved, $42 billion and the due diligence that generally follows such transactions.
However, in this interview David Sacks explicitly states Mr. Musk had no idea how much operational control and influence the government and intelligence apparatus held over the platform prior to the purchase. [Video prompted to 06:15 segment]
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If Sacks is delivering an accurate assessment of the situation, then taking the issue one step further, it stands to reason that Musk has no idea what the core algorithmic code built into the platform actually consists of. Additionally, as CTH has long outlined, then Musk has no idea about the data-processing subsidy arrangement that exists on the platform as an outcome of the partnership.
Readers here are so far ahead of the curve on this story, it’s kind of cool, funny, and yet frustrating at the same time. Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop is all a wild conspiracy theory born from the oddly wired brain of some dude in the corner of the internet; until suddenly it’s not.
Factually, it has been staring at everyone since the operation began in 2011, yet no one was willing to believe it. Apparently, Elon Musk is starting to realize what is inside the communication platform he purchased.
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. However, as I said from the outset of this new moment, I promise you things are not what they seem.
As noted earlier, and it is worth repeating, 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.
♦ Elevator Speech: Twitter was/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 had no idea.
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 GEC building that has anything to do with selling domestic coffee?
The sunlight revelations began surfacing a few months ago when 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 that a DHS portal into the coffee shop existed and what it would be for. WATCH:
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To put it in brutally honest terms, the State Dept initially created the partnership between the U.S. government and Twitter (Arab Spring). However, when the operations needed to become domestically centered (post Trump election), another agency stepped in…. The United States Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) 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, but with public statements it genuinely looks like Musk didn’t know.
Musk advisor David Sacks specifically states Elon Musk had no idea. However, regardless of foreknowledge, I feel confident the conflicting and odd datapoints only reconcile in one direction. The State Dept started it with GEC, but ultimately DHS, via CISA, controlled Twitter.
Wittingly or unwittingly (you decide) Elon Musk is now the face of a quasi 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. DHS is still the ghost in the machine.
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.
Mr. Elon Musk and his team are combing through millions of lines of algorithmic code, trying to find that “fundamental part” that will deliver their own ‘ah-ha’ moment. Until then, we keep watching and smiling…
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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
Why Govt Fears Discovery of Relationship
I dont worship at the altar of Elon the Electrified. I think he is bought and paid for by the CCP and NOTHING is at it seems with this guy. Ive never been on Twitter and never will.
You got that fight my friend
Same here never been on twatter, never will.
Elon is playing both sides of the field to drum up more twatter business. That what he does.
Now where’s those fraudchi files you’ve been promising????? The world is waiting.
WHEREVER has Musk supported state censorship? Wherever has he defended the Big Lie “It’s for your own good” to Believe us (State authorities)?
https://americanmind.org/salvo/faith-in-princes/
There’s no need to either worship or slander Musk, according to this very balanced piece.
Thanks for posting that.
True. Maybe Musk just innocently lacks that special sense some define as a feeling of fingers in one’s posterior and knowing that they’re not one’s own.
Eeewww.
A memorable Smittism 😉
..and even $130 billions can not buy this special sense….
Musk is a transhumanist. Neuralink is the key to understanding Musk and his motives. Control the public square, then control the public’s minds…
Believe Musk is not a threat at your own peril! AI may very well be the antichrist and musk is tip of the spear in AI!
Balanced? Maybe, I don’t know … I quit reading after the first couple of paragraphs that lingered irrelevantly on Trump’s deficiencies and the numbers of people who don’t like him: propaganda-style repetition of smear stuff on Trump in an article about Musk. The Trump-hate stuff is not only beside the point, It’s tired old conventional wisdom, of news to no one.
Stop with all the controlled by anyone cr*p. YOUR OWN government creates the enemies. How do you know they are enemies? What has China done to you personally? Did they take your job, your company? NO. Did Russia? NO. YOUR GOVERNMENT DID!
plus who says we are actually in opposition to China? After all we financed their gain of function covid experiments at Wuhan through Eco Alliance.
I suspect we tried to play China by sending the danger over there. Like most governmental decisions, the extent of potential consequences were not calculated and we ended up with a worldwide pandemic. We got bit in the *ss.
the extent of potential consequences were not calculated
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WRONG.
Those who created C19 knew exactly what they were doing and exactly what the consequences would be when they PURPOSELY RELEASED it on the world.
I keep thinking……
Our labs that were found in Ukraine.
And how many labs do we have in other countries?
The potential is….and has….always been there.
That is what is really concerning……
Thank you. The government needs to give us a boogeyman as a way to keep our focus off of them. Russia typically plays this role. Sometimes it’s China or Iran. The real threat is our own government and the people who control our government. I don’t see many dual citizens of China blending in and destroying our country.
I suspect he is part of the ((Tribe)). Paving the way for the Beast System which is happening before our very eyes! Countdown started in 1948. I’m just a humble watchman just doing my due diligance. I must admit he’s doing a marvelous job but I wonder for whom?
I imagine the something fundamental that Elon is tracking to be akin to shutting off the main breaker in your house and noticing the meter is still spinning and certain lights never turn off
I imagine the people he is tracking never imagined a moment when someone as intelligent as Elon, with the means to do so, would be hot on their trail.
However, they know Garland will never prosecute them.
And the neighbour down the street yells “Hey! Who turned off the lights??” 🙂
Exactly and he has to rely on others to find all the needles in that haystack. Further, Twitter has international ties and possibly obligations and he has to work with other governments as well. Plus, he needs Twitter to make money that is the big monkey on his back in this venture.
Great piece. Whether or not leading figures like Jack or Elon are ‘in the know,’ it has been obvious since early on (at least it was to me) that social media operations are either run or are used by Intelligence to monitor and shape public opinion. Their ability to do so without any oversight or consequences has greatly accelerated the shift from being somewhat a free republic to something far different, though not explicitly proclaimed and understood – some sort of oligarchy.
Viva repeated: “Nice little business you got there, it would be a shame if something happened to it.”
That mafia threat is becoming a standard echo.
They are probably taking a softer touch. We’ll know if all government vehicles start being mandated to be Teslas.
The eventual liberation of the nation will likely mean the purging or fundamental change of everything we’ve had to adapt to in the last 25 years. The digital tower of cards will collapse to where most everything web-wise will be left for salvage.
Maybe we don’t really need to know who ate what and where a 1000 miles away. Frivolous technology has completely dumbed down our thinking and we’d be better off in retrograde.
“The eventual liberation of the nation” will only happen if there are men of good will like Musk — and only if Rs grow balls of steel or if The Turtle-types get emergency spinal transplants.
I’ve given up on the yellow and blue tied turtle.
I find it hard to believe that that smartest man in the room ,who made billions on government taxpayer supported collaborations, didn’t know
His car company was given all that tax payers largess in support ,to be the spear head of the
Climate change agenda, only because he played ball.
He knows there is no man made climate change . He also knows that mass ownership of electric vehicles Is a pipe dream.
He is an engineer for God’s sake.
Are we to believe that his so called best friend ,the modern day Rasputin, never confided in him ,his most brilliant friend, over the years as he became disillusioned .
Elon Musk knows everything he needs to know and as much as the deep state informs him of.
A baseball analogy would be the coach coming in and changing pitchers in the middle innings of the game.
While all this goes on ,dribbled and drabs of click bait , all focus is off the other communication platforms that everyone
with a brain knows have been covertly usurped and will remain so.
How many “intelligent” people took the jab and insisted on everyone wearing masks?
I don’t know if Musk knew the depth of gov’t influence @ Twitter but leaning more toward him not knowing. COVID exposed the magnitude of “smart” people being completely irrational so it wouldn’t surprise me if Musk didn’t know.
The more important aspect is the fact that we’re keeping a close eye on Twitter (among other things). Just because I lean toward Musk not knowing, doesn’t mean that will remain my opinion forever.
It’s important to remember there are grey areas with nearly everything. Maybe Musk knew 50% of what was really going on. I just don’t believe it’s productive to throw Musk under the bus unless you can produce solid evidence that Musk knows everything and is deliberately creating a “limited hangout” to throw skeptics off the trail.
The one caveat that makes me pause is the timeframe in which most of the info is being released. As Sundance previously mentioned, a lot happened before Trump and we need more info for context around what went on during the Obama Administration.
Elon took the jab because he used to trust government officials. He has had really bad side effects from it. This made him wake up from his blind trust.
Elon should have done more due diligence by reading at the Treehouse.
Everyone should read Sundance! I try to get my friends to read it but they say they have no time to read the multiple emails per day. Then when I tell them something I learned here, they ask “Where did you hear that?”
Jim, of course you are correct. After all , was Twitter worth $42B? If so, why were there no other interested parties? If it was not worth $42B then why would he pay that money? Regardless of the man or his history, the transaction itself was clearly set up for him as figurehead. His return on investment will come through another channel.
Made a fortune selling WAAY overpriced status symbols to folks with WAAY more money than sense.
SMART!!
Musk has been dealing with the intel community and defense dept for years, he is obviously connected or why would they give him our space program through SpaceX and starlink…..both highly important defense and intelligence assets?
I agree. I think he knew something of what the government was doing with twitter – the bots. Probably not in great detail, but he has been working government contracts for decades. He may have been surprised at the depth to which government controlled Twitter.
I think all this with Twitter is just the tip of the iceberg. I have to believe the government is also involved with the largest news sites too including Yahoo. It just has that feel if you spend time there reading their propaganda.
Disqus Forums are there as well. If you watch the comments long enough on Breitbart, for example, the steering of the comments and “moderating” can be quite enlightening.
Don’t say anything negative about Israel on Breitbart.
Disqus used to filter out Soros references too.
I’ve had comments on here disappear into moderation that broke no rules.
If they don’t come back out, then worry. Your comments can be flagged by anyone. Someone can take a comment differently than you meant it. It takes time for the moderator to check. Sometimes the process gets gummed up, which happened to several of us a few months ago.
Yes. And they are willing participants. No innocents
You make, without evidence, this claim.
(I’m joking. I look for the phrase WITHOUT EVIDENCE as an indication that US intel has pored over whatever article I’m reading.)
If Elon Musk were reading this site, or if somehow, he got wind of this article, it would be very interesting to see his reaction.
I bet his eyes would get wide.
They sure did a great job of SKIRTING and AVOIDING the issue of the potato’s ukraine money making enterprises. SPIT!
Like I’ve said before. And I’ll keep it short this time.
I call BS.
I agree, Jack probably did lose control but he’s a globalist and didnt care that much . He’s probably being replaced because he’s burnt out and it’s half time. Time for the teams to switch sides of the field. To that end it’s pretty obvious to me that after the global pillaging that’s been going on there’s another faction of the globalist billionaires with a slightly different agenda vying for control. This is the side that DeSantis belings to. There is no way in any logical thought that Elon didn’t have an idea of the governments involvement in this machine. It was obvious after the Arab Spring when THEY couldn’t help themselves and bragged about it. Also, Elon is friends w Dorsy. Even though he may not have known the extent of the operation, Dorsy would have had a conversation with him around some of this.
#2 – The global governance group Elon works within would never ever allow him to say or do the things he’s doing without approval, even if he’s a voting board member on his side of the globalist cartels. Twitter is to big of a global propaganda machine to let ANYONE have control that is not authorized. So that being said, Elon may have not known the intricate details of the inner workings of the global propaganda operation developed by the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, but he knew of it and the operation inside Twitter. He knew what their mission was and he knew it was funded by tax payer dollars. He knew more than that because I knew that sitting in my basement waiting for mommy to bring me a Fanta.
So imo, Elon being a different wing from the same bird is authorized to do exactly what he’s doing and he’s only exposing enough of the operation to discredit the other team. His team is currently in the middle of taking over the next shift for controlling the world because
one of demigods above us lost a gladiator match or something similar.
What comes to mind is the LoonyTunes cartoon from the 70s where the 2 sheepdogs pass by each other on the hill overlooking the sheep. One clocking in and one clocking out, saying morning Fred, morning George.
Art imitating life and this has definitely become a crazy cartoon with all of us sheep at the bottom of the hill.
Dorsey handed Elon the Old Maid card. Maybe he’s not as smart as we all think he is. Or he’s just unlucky.
Laura Loomer has a very good RICO case against the tiny techs.
I’m thinkin’ Elon must have missed this testimony.
No… he knows about it. Loomer was talking to Bannon yesterday.
Loomer was/is the ultimate whistleblower.
Hey Elon,
Everyday the truth is withheld means more of this, potentially happens.
This sounds very TRUE and JIM BAKER can tell you how BAD it really was since he was a MAJOR PLAYER in doing it.
Remember, they were trying to hide Baker in plain sight by always only referring to him by “Jim” with no last name attached.
https://twitter.com/LiveFree1969/status/1624438387032698880/photo/1
I’ll say this.. Thank Almighty God for making Elon Musk follow threw with purchase of the corrupt Lying evil twitter. He could have back out but instead held the line.
So many criminals have be exposed and have now committed perjury.
yes they will. People who were harmed will file law suits for damages…
The people and companies harmed will have to bring suit in court, might not be in Federal court.
Excellent synopsis on the 4th Branch of Government and surveillance. The resources are essential also.
Nothing will happen – never does. No one will be prosecuted – they never are.
meatball: Yup.
IDK. I’m inclined to give Musk a pass on this one. It’s not like the Twitter executives aren’t liars or anything. I’m sure he knew there was government involvement but not to what extent.
I just now remembered the dust up about the idea that government employees were to be stationed in news rooms.
I think that was back right after BHO became president.
Tell me again how a Criminal, anti-Constitution, anti-American People, unelected Gang that controls the levers of American Power including Messaging (Media and Internet), are going to be stripped of their ill-gotten power?
The Courts, the Faux Justice, the Agencies, the Military and Policing are for the few and against the many.
Lady Liberty is chained to a wall in a basement is being assaulted daily.
Until and unless that power at the center of Media and the Internet is crushed, America is done. Finished.
Nonsense. Musk has a long history of blowing smoke.
If twitter was “occupied” to this extent by Big Brother, it must be assumed that almost every other social/news media outfit was/is also. Congress had better work under that assumption, rather than just entertaining us with the low hanging fruit Musk is tossing into their basket.
Cassandra Spencer apparently came out in support of James O’Keefe. When she was a facebook whistleblower she went to O’Keefe. She later went to work for James and PV.
Interview with Facebook Whistleblower Cassandra Spencer at CPAC 2021 2/27/21
By Right Side Broadcasting
27 Feb 2021
LOL Marissa (is that her name?) put it best in the first video: Having seen all of this before, what are Republicans, who are partially in power now, going to do about it? And, I would add, what can they do about it? How far does the power of the purse extend and have Republicans in the House, indeed, the “testosterone” to pay the price to wield that purse as a weapon, for the sake of our Republic?
I like the popular paraphrase of the original Charles Weller quote, which states: “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.” If not now, then when? What does being re-elected mean if you get to serve in a country that’s become a socialist nightmare where citizens must look over their shoulders every time they dare come online and post a joke or a complaint? We are far into the night, hastening toward the sunset of the world’s last great Republic. There is not a great deal of time left for posturing, soundbites and theatrics. The Democrat wing of the Uni-party is rotten to the core. The Republican wing, even though deeply infected with the globalist cancer, yet exhibits some signs of life – it is not dead. We need to push them to be bold and take chances that don’t calculate what will happen in two years, because we may not have two years left.
And we, all of us men and women of goodwill, must discontinue our slighting of the ultimate source of power that blessed and built this country into the greatest the world has ever seen. The Founders knew that the Lord would be the bedrock of this venture if it were to be successful and gave honor and allegiance to Him, and a success he made us of beyond the world’s wildest imagining. This House of Sand is crumbling and every single thing we do today to shore up and return to the foundation is an investment in the future, no matter the cost of that effort today.
(Matthew 7:24-27)
I believe you are looking for Jeremiah 51:56, and we have about 4 more years. Use them well, Jonrilus.
No, Matthew 7:24-27 is what I had in mind, but thank you. 😉
Our Founders knew that this great experiment in republican government would only succeed if blessed by divine Providence. And so, as hard as it is for many to hear, they founded this country on Christian principles. It was not a perfect founding, and thus the inhumanity of slavery, but even in that regard there were voices opposed. After the downfall of slavery, the bedrock of cultural Americanism was still centered around an acceptance of God as creator and the author of our liberties and prosperity. He was the firm Rock on which the country was built. Without that foundation we’ve descended into national madness – gender dysphoria, drag queen story hour for kids, violence and destruction in our inner cities, elections stolen before our eyes and a demented, perverted criminal holding our highest office.
If we go forward in our own strength, we lose. It’s that simple. The entire House crumbles because it will be built on sand. We know what is coming, in the larger picture, but immediately, each of us has a part to play and the ultimate victory, and its reward, will vindicate those who go in the Lord’s strength. He is the only foundation on which this House can be rebuilt, as it was in the beginning.
I sincerely hope Elon Musk (his family, and his friends) watch his and their own backs.
Definitely in my prayers.
I still go with the theory proposed on The Duran that the intelligence community screwed Elon over regarding his company providing satellite service to Ukraine and he ran head first into the war machine. Elon thought he was doing a humanitarian service and generating good will PR. His retaliation for them trying to manipulate him was exposing their game.
The same could be said for most legacy media outlets.
It’s not possible with their low viewership for advertisers to cover the cost of their 4th branch-generated propaganda.
Plus now we know that even private ‘MAGA’ and ‘MAGA-lite’ sources of dialogue and info are being taken over or sold and silenced by the same cabal.
Project Veritas looks like their latest victim.
My guess is they are letting Elon get a sense of this before they will make him an offer he can’t refuse. Namely either play ball or leave.
Musk needs to sue. If they genuinely didn’t know they had no control(full ownership) of their purchase, they should sue! I’d take ex Twitter and government to the fkin cleaners!
Not sure that the corrupt legal system would deliver justice at this point. Just like in a banana republic. Reminds me of this scene in National Lampoons Summer Vacation.
UNfortunately the people who DON’T believe this are not hearing it- the L.A. TImes has not covered one word of this: Not a single line about the Matt Taibi Twitter dump; not a single article about the House hearings. I am cancelling my subscription today. The left doesn’t WANT to know the truth because their entire world would be shattered……The FBI and DOJ are so corrupt that they must be dismantled and rebuilt – starting with the brave whistleblowers who bucked their superiors to inform the American people of what has been going on in the Shadows.
This is the most terrible criminal enterprise of our lifetime. Our government is actually worse than the mafia because they have unlimited resources and power. No matter what I learn about Musk, him buying Twitter is a good thing.
Wish someone like Elon could get Facebook.
You know there are some days with all Elons government ties I either think he took this on to safeguard himself and future (think Bezos and Wash Post x10) or that he was allowed to take it on (because of what they have on Elon).
Either way, it’s in Elons interest not to divulge all.
Think about it.
Your work is phenomenal Sundance. That said, shouldn’t you be talking to one of the House committees?
I’m sure he has one way or the other. Plus they have people that are aware of the issues on one level or another. Even the crooks and frauds likely understand the drill.
The question is, do they have the political will to actually defund these criminal organizations?
The second question is, even after that, will they just increase the level of self-fund via various international criminal activities just like ‘private’ organized crime does?
Just like the RNC doesn’t need We the People donations to keep their cartel of selling our people and nation’s laws to the highest bidder, domestic or international.
The need to steal elections in plain sight is a clear sign that a vast majority of We the People are onto their fraud, and criminality and can now clearly see the false choices the uniparty has been using for decades.
The difference in social issues between Dems’ and RINOs are also used as a smokescreen to keep up the illusion of choice as well.
Meanwhile, the issue they care about is the perpetuation of their power and wealth accumulation. This is why all States jumped on the electronic vote-flipping bandwagon to take some pressure off their ballot-stuffing and primary-splitting scams.
I totally agree with you that the government has its tentacles in all the big tech operations. The question is where does that leaves those of us who wants America to become a constitutional republic? We have to understand why we do not operate as intended by the founders. The Democrat party was founded as a gangster party with wealth accumulation as it’s primary goal. Pursuing the establishment of slavery in all American states was its secondary ggoal which was intended to support it wealth accumulation. Its primary political tool was massive violence until the late 1960s. Today, the Democrat party doesn’t have to use slavery for wealth and power. Through massive violence and corruption, it has taken over the federal government. It now is able to use that government to generate untold wealth. The Democrat party does not have to depend on violence alone to enforce its regime. Control of the federal government gives the Democrat party myriads of ways to abuse those who threaten its wealth generating operations. Getting into the weeds of what federal government mechanism Democrats are using yesterday to bludgeon its opposition is fine but it leaves us on the defensive. Only a united call for all to recognize what an un-American organization the Democrat party is will put us on the offensive.
There are 2 assertions in this article that I disagree with:
1- that the cia came in later and took it over
Occams razor tells me this is the more likely and logical scenario:
[…] “Intelligence agencies backed new startups designed to monitor the vast flow of information across social networks …”
Perhaps they even set up those “startups” using their shadow corporations, black budgets, cia venture capital, and private surrogate financing using Dorsey as a front man. If you can trace the financing for twitter and the history of Dorsey the clues will likely emerge.
2- That Musk was duped or was ignorant of the Intel community relation with Twitter:
Again Occams razor tells me that the guy who was given starlink and spacex by the defense and intel agencies would be much more likely to be aware of the back door under the table dealings of the defense dept, intel community and connected industries than anyone else, especially their MO and tactics.
here is my simpler analysis:
Twitter was set up by the intel community and Dorsey was chosen to be the front man. Now that the cover has been blown they are attempting a false flag controlled opposition play. They got a new front man to whom they already have strong links and ties through their dealings in spacex, starlink, etc. They are having Musk play the role of opposition and pretending to break up and purge the offending elements so that they can reinvent twitter in a new image that will be able to gain back credibility and then continue on ultimately as usual. They are simply regrouping as they have been successful in accomplishing their goals to date; elections and control of information. They will woo back folks who started to doubt them. They want to get enough folks back into the MSM information channels. Most folks are already buying the notion that twitter will get clean. They use twitter to listen and to do.
This seems plausible.
Hmm.
Reading all this, it just occurred to me that “The Skunk Works” name for “black ops” government projects could well apply to more than the now-famous military aircraft factories.
We know of the ginormous data-collection fortifications in Utah. Why not a “Skunk Works” filled with programmers and web geeks working the interwebs to support spying via Twitter, Facebook, those “updates” to your Windows Operating System, etc?
How would anyone know they were spied on what those interweb thingys and those wonderful “updates” to Windows?
All of it “off the books” in those secret “black budgets”?
Heck, they could easily pay for it- they now have literally trillions of $$$$ sloshing around that nobody ever audits.
That is exactly the way it is. If Intel’s chipsets had back doors for .gov. They all did. Microsoft had backdoors and probably a few others. Government was the front runner in the industry. The first IBMs were a NAVY project.
BTW – I have difficulty taking much of Clayton Morris’ efforts seriously. He engaged in several shady financial ventures and when they looked to be failing, he left Fox News Channel as a weekend host of Fox and Friends and high tailed out of New Jersey to Portugal to avoid lawsuits and financial responsibilities. He’s an adept journalist but I don’t think I’d support Bernie Madoff if he was an adept journalist.
Nextdoor is one of those new platforms….
I’m happy that I left MicroSoft for Linux (Ubuntu). I’m also just about free from Google. I’m not faring as well in getting rid of Youtube.
Reading other Conservative websites, especially the comments, trips me out because they have no core understanding of the “Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop” thesis. No one other the Treepers gets this fundamental understanding and it’s a must to understanding the Twitter enigma. Sundance, you are a legend and a hero.
Question for you: shouldn’t Elon Musk be suing the shit out of everyone involved for fraud?
Copy the URL to this article into a text file to keep on your desktop (or in your Notes on your mobile device). Then copy & paste the URL in into your comment (under any article dealing with the same general topic) on as many conservative sites as you are able.
This is a great thread.
The files and programs on those laptops have great value, to someone.
I believe this is what’s called a convenient lie to maintain plausible deniability.
There is no way Elon Musk and his backers didn’t understand how social media is controlled by the major western powers’ governments through their intelligence operations.
Makes me trust his motives even less than I already knew were shady.
There appears to be some some of internal dispute between major global factions in how they’ll shape the coming world order. Musk is on one side who believes humanity’s potential is better reached in a more open and free environment than the increasingly authoritarian Establishment who’ve ran things since the Obama era.
Do I believe musk didn’t know more about twitter than his spokesman says?
NO.
Do I think the biden regime doesn’t know more about the chineese balloons that have been shot down?
NO.
Do I think this balloon stuff has been going on for a long time?
NO.
Biden regime said it happened when Trump was President.
Do I believe that?
NO.
Do I believe the balloon news is a preplanned distraction to wipe biden secret docs found everywhere like cigarette butts of the news?
YES.
Do I think of the US military like a kid with a popgun?
NO.
Do I think the biden regime will act like the US military is a kid with a popgun trying to shoot down balloons?
YES!
It’s all just controlled demolition. They have moved to the next stage so you are getting pieces of what was. It will take years for the worst parts to surface and by then the new tool will be exposed. Musk is just another actor playing his part in the current phase. It’s not just a back door API in a social media company any more than it was just listening into phone conversations on phone lines, or that decades long hard coded memory exploit built into x86, IBM and ARM processors. None of these things are related obviously so shush. None of these realities would suggest that at it’s core; technology, as it is designed and managed today, is prebuilt with backdoors and hacks for any number of reasons. It’s impossible. Nothing to see here. Everyone keeps watching the show but they haven’t realized, ‘the show’ is really watching them..
Exactly. Government has been demanding back doors for decades.
Nope I don’t believe none of it…
Fooled me once shame on you….You know the rest
Now we also know they’re all liars each and everyone
And why should I believe Elon Musk
Perhaps it’s more likely it’s time to shut this operation at Twitter down and move on to the next level
“Good ole boy Elon just the fella to that for us”
Besides They accomplished what they really intended initially and much more to boot.
They don’t get the benefit of innocent until proven guilty, no not at all, no not them.
They are all guilty of countless criminal offenses.
Let em’ prove their innocence.
Granny Hawkins says: “nail their hide to a barn door”
I knew this several years ago, that the CIA controls all media including NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, Twitter, Facebook, “Hollywood”, etc. This all started with Mockingbird and never stopped despite Frank Church’s committee recommendations to disband the CIA and two subsequent bills proposed by Sen Moynihan that were voted down. Surely Musk had to know they were in the background, where they preferred to operate. Perhaps, the SEC should have clued-in Musk during the due diligence phase but they are probably controlled by the same evil master.
This is going to take many months. He has to have an army of bright engineers go through every line of code. He has to work with government agencies on what content it is ok for Taibbi and others to review. He’ll be walking a tightrope. He has worked lots of government contracts, so, he’s not a newbie at being careful what information he makes public.
So if the deep-state has this kind of management and infrastructure presence at Twitter, what do you think they have at Google and Facebook (and their affiliates)?
This goes WAY beyond Twitter and I have a hard time believing there aren’t many republicans that have known about this all along.
Who is the person that even considers that Musk is an independent agent.
There are way too many examples of what TPTB can do to those who refuse to follow the script and get comfortable ad libbing.
SpaceX is NASA.
Oh yeah, I know it is reported that Musk managed to all the things he has accomplished with his own money blah blah blah
Who are we listening too the media the Elon Musk team and his cult followers.
Oh but Musk speaks out about the censorship of the government etc
Yep, it’s all meaningless theater just like we see from the RINO’s
TPTB certainly do allow for the a voice opposition from a small minority in Congress because it looks good and besides the sheep have grown accustomed to hearing all the yapping which takes Congressional at those do-nothing committees
It’s helps grease the machinery and the sheep for an easier no pain penetration.
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