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116th Congress: F-cker WAS Impeached. Still not enough.

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So Axios posted an article about a Chinese agent cozying up to Democratic pols. In the tweet that advertised it, they basically drew a straight line to Eric Swalwell. Buried in the article they made mention that Swalwell was notified by the FBI and immediately cut ties. No accusation of wrongdoing. Yet their tweets make it seem like he did something wrong (he might have, who knows) and failed to mention that he cut ties. It’s bad journalism staining what may be spectacular investigative work.

I called them out on their nonsense. I wake up to 600 likes on those tweets, 75 retweets, and a follow-back from Swalwell. O.O I can’t clear the notifications fast enough. Crazy.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
So Axios posted an article about a Chinese agent cozying up to Democratic pols. In the tweet that advertised it, they basically drew a straight line to Eric Swalwell. Buried in the article they made mention that Swalwell was notified by the FBI and immediately cut ties. No accusation of wrongdoing. Yet their tweets make it seem like he did something wrong (he might have, who knows) and failed to mention that he cut ties. It’s bad journalism staining what may be spectacular investigative work.

I called them out on their nonsense. I wake up to 600 likes on those tweets, 75 retweets, and a follow-back from Swalwell. O.O I can’t clear the notifications fast enough. Crazy.
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Wasn't the gist of their story the methods used by Chinese intelligence, rather than accusations that a particular politician (like Swalwell) was compromised? Basically, the story suggests that rather than try to gain a connection (through sexual activities or otherwise) with say a member of Congress, the idea was to gain connections to vast numbers of unknown, low-level politicians, with the hope one or more of them may one day rise to power?

Sort of the same approach used by every 20-25 year old woman in a town where Single A minor league baseball or Power 5 football is played.

Personally, I think they'd have had more luck just going straight for the Congressmen. I don't think it's that hard to get them to do something stupid, so why waste the time with a city council member in Modesto.
 
Easier to convince more powerful people to do your bidding when they are part of a larger group. Look at all the low level clowns helping to keep Trump's grift alive and how it gets people higher up the food chain to keep hope alive. All politics is local you convince some low level guys an issue is important it heads up the ladder and by the time a Congressmen deals with it no one knows where it started or why.
 
SJHovey said:
Wasn't the gist of their story the methods used by Chinese intelligence, rather than accusations that a particular politician (like Swalwell) was compromised? Basically, the story suggests that rather than try to gain a connection (through sexual activities or otherwise) with say a member of Congress, the idea was to gain connections to vast numbers of unknown, low-level politicians, with the hope one or more of them may one day rise to power?

Sort of the same approach used by every 20-25 year old woman in a town where Single A minor league baseball or Power 5 football is played.

Personally, I think they'd have had more luck just going straight for the Congressmen. I don't think it's that hard to get them to do something stupid, so why waste the time with a city council member in Modesto.
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Then that's what they should have framed with their tweets.

Otherwise, yeah, the article was a good piece. The tweet advertising it is what I have a problem with.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Then that's what they should have framed with their tweets.

Otherwise, yeah, the article was a good piece. The tweet advertising it is what I have a problem with.
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Oh, ok. I don't have a twitter account so I didn't read their tweets. Personally, the times that I've read tweets that have been linked to, I've usually found them to be at best misleading or at least exaggerated, apparently as was the Axios tweet you found.
 
Tweets by news groups tend to be clickbaity in their title...we all get burned by their crap. NY Times and Politico (along with the Hill) are some of the worst offenders.
 
SJHovey said:
Wasn't the gist of their story the methods used by Chinese intelligence, rather than accusations that a particular politician (like Swalwell) was compromised? Basically, the story suggests that rather than try to gain a connection (through sexual activities or otherwise) with say a member of Congress, the idea was to gain connections to vast numbers of unknown, low-level politicians, with the hope one or more of them may one day rise to power?

Sort of the same approach used by every 20-25 year old woman in a town where Single A minor league baseball or Power 5 football is played.

Personally, I think they'd have had more luck just going straight for the Congressmen. I don't think it's that hard to get them to do something stupid, so why waste the time with a city council member in Modesto.
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I miss the days when they could just walk in to Mar A Lago.

Now they're gonna have to actually work at it.
 
Handyman said:
Tweets by news groups tend to be clickbaity in their title...we all get burned by their crap. NY Times and Politico (along with the Hill) are some of the worst offenders.
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Don't exaggerate. NYT is very bad about their editorial stuff but they aren't a click rag like those other outlets.

News, I mean. Features are always "Will kale kill your kids?!"
 
While it's an interesting idea, I don't think using Section 3 of the 14th Amendment on the House Members who signed onto the Texas lawsuit is going to work out...
 
Jimjamesak said:
While it's an interesting idea, I don't think using Section 3 of the 14th Amendment on the House Members who signed onto the Texas lawsuit is going to work out...
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Probably not, but it's a good gesture. There has to be a mechanism. The Nazis used democrat means to destroy democracy. We cannot let the Republicans do that.
 
Kepler said:
Probably not, but it's a good gesture. There has to be a mechanism. The Nazis used democrat means to destroy democracy. We cannot let the Republicans do that.
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I think using the 14th is just a pathway for Republicans to use it on all Democrats for specious reasons. The phrase "never give your enemy the rope with which to hang you" comes to mind.
 
If true that is...but it would not shock me.
 
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