Notes from a retired newspaper publisher
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Tweets#
  • Postmodern word games are everywhere in politics and media narratives.#
    • More frank reporting than you will find in most corporate #media. Oh, an a lesson on the bogus #postmodern redefinition of words. — #Gaza: Truths Behind All the Lies https://t.co/JjTbCTo5Kl via @VDHanson [Link]#
    • Slicing and dicing a lack of clear thinking. — #NeverTrump Agonistes, by @utahprez https://t.co/oexBd6Xf8K [Link]#
    • AND HAMAS SUPPORTERS ARE ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT A “HUMANITARIAN CRISIS.” IF YOU’RE A HAMAS SUPPORTER, YOU’RE NO HUMANITARIAN. https://t.co/tPlGuou6a5 [Link]#
    • .@GavinNewsom called out for a misrepresentation — #lying is a better word — about the @JoeBiden ’s bill that encouraged illegal migration rather than reduced it.. https://t.co/rxvpfiPaax [Link]#
  • Controlling excessive spending could save our country.#
    • Perhaps this could be tried elsewhere that government spends too much. — "There‘s A Lot More Chainsaw": Argentine President #Milei To Fire 70,000 Government Workers https://t.co/9mE08HKqgt [Link]#
  • An all powerful government is rule, not governance.#
    • Doesn’t the @JoeBiden administration want to turn off RFKJr’s microphone? Allowing the administration to turn off electricity seems equally dangerous. https://t.co/hORbW8bpng [Link]#
    • The @JoeBiden administration plans to control citizens theough #censorship — MATT TAIBBI: Twitter Files Extra: How the “Censorship Industrial Complex” Case Was Built. “Three s https://t.co/joP8DwDGBX [Link]#
  • A self-own by media no longer capable of journalism.#
    • Your #politics are not what the national political parties practice. — Mutiny on the #MSNBC, by @donsurber https://t.co/BfLddKGigB [Link]#
  • Energy policy.#
    • Cutting off your nose to spite your face. — North Sea #oil rigs threatened with shutdown unless they start running on #green electricity https://t.co/mxOONYN7Cf [Link]#
  • Word games.#
    • Public posturing before the lawsuit is decided. — Dominion Energy’s absurd reply to CFACT’s whale protection lawsuit https://t.co/tH0Ncv4OYo via @wattsupwiththat [Link]#
  • One could always follow the science.#
    • Inconvenient for #climate activists. — Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute Shows January Arctic Sea Ice Now 20 Years Stable! https://t.co/5Hijuc6Ymh via @wattsupwiththat [Link]#
Retweets#
  • Elections that are not secure are dangerous to the country.#
    • RT @kylenabecker: New RNC Co-Chair @LaraLeaTrump blasts states that have election laws that make it easier to cheat.... ... "Right now we have 23�� [Link]#
    • RT @jsolomonReports: Third Circuit Court rules Pennsylvania must only count mail ballots with dates, signatures | Just The News https://t.… [Link]#
    • RT @TomFitton: The law requires an "Election Day," not an "Election Week." or "Election Month" -- counting ballots that arrive days and wee… [Link]#
  • If one cannot critique elections election integrity will be lost.#
    • RT @JonathanTurley: ...Trump‘s objections to the election were in my view protected free speech. The indictment does not make out a compelling… [Link]#
  • Postmodern word games.#
    • RT @ScottAdamsSays: Biden can "Protect Democracy" if he manages to keep RFK Jr. off the ballot, uses corrupt prosecutors and judges to put… [Link]#
    • Bingo! — #misinformation IS A TERM OF ART DEPLOYED BY #TOTALITARIAN REGIMES: The misinformation of misinformation. https://t.co/DmE26kekkT [Link]#
    • RT @StephenM: @ChrisMurphyCT No such bill exists. There were 3 amendments on the funding bill to deport illegals and criminal migrants and… [Link]#
  • The left cares about nothing except control.#
    • RT @SethDillon: Of course it‘s taxpayer money, so citizens are funding their own censorship and subjugation. [Link]#
    • RT @SethDillon: Not satire: Washington state has passed a law offering cash as an incentive to report hate speech and bias via a 24/7 hotli… [Link]#
    • RT @SharylAttkisson: From my 2017 article (a small sampling of FBI surveillance abuses):... I caught my breath when I heard FBI Director Chris… [Link]#
  • Cohesive and aligned is a narrative, not news and not journalism.#
    • RT @John_Kass: “No organization, particularly a newsroom, can succeed unless it is cohesive and aligned..." NBC News Chairman Cesar Conde.… [Link]#
    • RT @MZHemingway: Jen Psaki Lies About Lying https://t.co/zmU6OuZQHX [Link]#
  • Impoverishing government impoverishes you.#
    • RT @ConceptualJames: It‘s happening. Cloward-Piven. [Link]#
  • Always a worthwhile education.#
    • RT @VDHanson: https://t.co/cGy54H95yH [Link]#
  • Clean house.#
    • RT @MZHemingway: The RNC Is Right: Anyone Who Can’t Recognize Flaws In 2020 Is Unfit To Help Republicans Win https://t.co/zCjmZW8x9x [Link]#
  • And where was Congress?#
    • RT @AGAndrewBailey: BREAKING: My office will be filing suit against Joe Biden for his latest illegal student loan plan.... ... The Supreme Court… [Link]#
  • Unnecessary and antagonistic.#
    • RT @ProfDBernstein: OMB has decided to make America‘s arbitrary racial classifications even more arbitrary by turning the multi-racial Hispanic… [Link]#
  • Working on his fourth term.#
    • RT @LeeSmithDC: It’s not the college kids and academics or even Dearborn. It’s Obama. [Link]#
  • Justified criticism.#
    • RT @RichardGrenell: Your team dropped the Trump sanctions on Putin’s pipeline into Europe….which ignited Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. ... ... You… [Link]#
  • Appropriate challenge of a bogus political narrative.#
    • RT @BasedMikeLee: FBI just got called out in a community note on X. Congress—take note. ... ... FISA 702 has been used for warrantless surveillan… [Link]#
  • Technical details to help understand the Baltimore ship systems.#
    • RT @mercoglianos: Great comments from a former Maersk Chief Engineer. https://t.co/NO1nIkKt18 [Link]#
  • Either property rights matter or welcome to communism.#
    • RT @BillAckman: New York and other states should follow. The world would be a better place without squatters’ rights. And this should not b… [Link]#
  • FISA courts have been abused for political reasons.#
    • RT @TheLastRefuge2: My position has always been to eliminate the secret FISA court. Have US attorneys go to regular federal courts for Tit… [Link]#
  • Torpedoing a false narrative.#
    • RT @julie_kelly2: Remember when the FBI called your security detail in Sept 2020 and had you leave your cottage so FBI informants and under… [Link]#
  • Uniformly apply the law.#
    • RT @julie_kelly2: Partial list of individuals who should be disbarred for attempting to overturn the results of the 2016 election:... ... Jim Com… [Link]#
  • Clearing the air.#
    • RT @paulsperry_: NEW: ‘There’s Been No Increase’: Scientists Debunk Climate Change Claims About Hurricanes... ... Hurricanes are now ‘smaller and… [Link]#
  • One would think this worthy of mention in the media.#
    • RT @LeeSmithDC: Yes, media has buried fact that Biden has a hostage crisis on his hands, and his response is to give Iran’s proxy a win in… [Link]#
  • More than not cool. Try dangerous.#
    • RT @elonmusk: Not cool that she undermined math education in California [Link]#
  • Avoid double standards.#
    • RT @elonmusk: It should not be acceptable for any company in the gaming industry to be racist & sexist against “white guys” [Link]#
  • An attorney should defend a client as best as one can.#
    • RT @julie_kelly2: The disbarment proceedings moving forward today against John Eastman and Jeff Clark aren’t about 2020–they’re about 2024.… [Link]#

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