Matt Taibbi

when the GOP does it, it's legal

Dude was always a piece of shit. The exile was basically Vice.

This is akin to saying it is better to be gunned down by a police officer than by a vigilante, because at least the police officer has internal affairs to worry about

More like it's better to be gunned down by a police officer than to have a stranger yell "hey fatso" to you as they drive by -- where is the accountability I ask you

Also of course the inherent assumption that people are being deplatformed randomly or no reason at all, when in a lot of cases it's for spreading public health misinformation and other things with actual possible bad consequences.

extremely nerd voice: My platforms

it's for spreading public health misinformation and other things with actual possible bad consequences.

(matt taibi stokes his chin and replies:) can't you see? it's a slippery slope! a slippery slope!!!

“Ellsberg, Hale, Winner, Snowden, Assange, and now Trump,” said Gabriel Shipton, brother of Julian Assange. “Incredible.” https://t.co/BPAwYFQ7Yu

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) August 14, 2022

such a piece of crap

what about chelsea manning

"it's so weird, Democrats are actually demanding Trump be prosecuted under the same law other people who did similar things were prosecuted under. what next - consistency in prison sentences?"

Taibbi's stooges repeating the hilarious Catch 22 of "where's the proof", because remember arrests only happen after convictions

evidence is behind the paywall

Is Tabby actually making Trump out to be a brave leaker, he was going to go to the press with this stuff any day now!!!

obviously the evidence that the election was a fraud was in the documents, and now that the FBI has them we'll just have to take Trump's word that it was there!

the entire current output of Taibbi, Greenwald, Tracey, etc. can be summed up with "Liberals were mad about x, but now they are not mad about y."

They don’t have to be classified under this law and Trump just in his mind carries nuclear secrets around. What are they going assert he’s doing with them, selling them to Russia? Please

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) August 14, 2022

Presumably they are going to assert whatever facts the investigation returns.

Trumps famous photographic memory

The Van Gogh stunt makes me want to buy a dozen Buick Electras and leave their engines running round the clock. If there’s such a thing as anti-activism, that’s it. https://t.co/oSNHhhsMdU

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) October 15, 2022

The literal definition of "reactionary."

What a boring take on his part.

He knows what the knuckle-walking chud-bros who consider him a "brave truth-teller" want to hear.

Transitioning to a somehow less attractive Dennis Leary.

Every time this thread gets bumped I know I'm going to see something annoying if I click on it so why do I still click?

IDK, but this is one of the threads I routinely irritate myself with (the Amanda Palmer thread is another)

hate reading ILX is a past time some of us have engaged in for 20+ years

several of my bookmarked threads are about public figures I hate. I don't hate Taibbi, but I'm kind of fascinated/bummed by his gradual metamorphosis to Dennis Miller 2.0. Never saw it coming.

This dick is testifying before Jim Jordan's committee right now

Plaskett refers to Taibbi and Shellenberger as "two of Elon Musk's public scribes" who "release cherry-picked, out of context emails and screenshots designed to promote his chosen narrative, Elon Musk's chosen narrative, that is now being parroted by the Republicans." pic.twitter.com/x97D14mZqR

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 9, 2023

Plaskett is going off

get him

Stacey Plaskett Emergency

He tries to squirm out of admitting how much more money he's making now

lol

Plaskett refers to Taibbi and Shellenberger as "two of Elon Musk's public scribes" who "release cherry-picked, out of context emails and screenshots designed to promote his chosen narrative, Elon Musk's chosen narrative, that is now being parroted by the Republicans." pic.twitter.com/x97D14mZqR

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 9, 2023

whoops wrong tweet

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Journalists should avoid accepting spoon-fed, cherry-picked information if it's likely to be slanted, would you agree with that?

TAIBBI: I think it depends

WS: Really? *plays clip of Taibbi basically agreeing with the premise of her question on Rogan's pod* pic.twitter.com/LWAKg4ogG1

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 9, 2023

lol at

"Who is this Bari Weiss person? Does she work for Twitter?"

"She's a journalist."

"And when did she first make contact with Mr. Musk?"

"I don't know."

"So you and Ms. Weiss are part of a threesome?"

ew

can't get enough of your love, babe

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:izxpomdyri45gzhppiiyattq/bafkreiabj5jeilqrmnzaobn4wg7f6l23nfrrt7fns67adyi5a5ffkzqcnm@jpeg

consider me triggered

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having a meltdown on twitter apparently because Musk shadowbanned him

The role of the journalist is to repeatedly decline to criticise the comfortable

https://www.mediaite.com/tech/you-are-dead-to-me-twitter-files-journalist-matt-taibbi-posts-unhinged-messages-from-elon-musk/

Amazing comment from Bluesky on all this:

this is like the scene where Daniel Plainview shoves Eli into the mud and holds him down there, except instead of Daniel Plainview it's Grimace

you hate to see it. well, i mean me, i hate to see it. i feel gross now.

lolz

imagine a blanket search ban on a journo's tweets - forever

If you can’t trust a petulant billionaire, who can you trust?