Which is why I think Bannon is dangerous and I curse the fucking Mercers for unleashing this fucking asshole on us. And if you were to look up the word "tool" in the dictionary, you'd see Mike Cernovich's picture.

If that is so, and there is no reason not to think it is, then the question is, How is he spreading the word that he wants to obtain dirt? I would suspect some compensation is being offered. There ought to be a trail of emails or money or both.

And who knows where else, what unlimited access he had to records.

leakers!" Everything goes back ultimately to the little fingered pussy grabber.

Congress keeping these things secret is not how this is supposed to work. I don't care what party they are in, kick the perverts out and replace them.

He passed the documents to BuzzFeed, he told them, because otherwise "Democrats and congressional leaders would 'try to discredit the story by attacking the messenger'". He knows his credibility was shot, and so did whoever provided them to him.

He's obviously a partisan hack with no evidence of interest (quite the contrary) in exposing abuse for non-political reasons.

Perhaps there's been a partial leak of at least some settlements involving Democrats (these would be federal employees in general, not necessarily senators and congressmen - 264 over 20 years, according to WaPo), and the idea is to get those out front and center before the rest get exposed, if that happens. (Or maybe it's a bluff and he just had Conyer's.)



2002 and 2007 were pretty bad years for settlements (the offenses would obviously have occurred before then), so I'm not sure what that tells us. Does it tie in with any of the election cycles, known major scandals or rumors, or am I missing something?

Whatever, there are RW efforts on Twitter to get the hashtag #unsealthedeals trending and put pressure on Paul Ryan.

It looks to me from what I've seen so far like it's an attempt to "own" the issue of countering abuse in Congress by the MAGA crowd and associates of Bannon and Cernovich.

and some congressional staffer in a MAGA hat took him up on it. Cernovich probably got the money from Bannon.

I've found some apparent replies to it when it was first posted, like this one

Link to tweet

but haven't yet found the original tweet, which he might have deleted.

And yes, it has been deleted.

Just googled

cernovich $10,000

and the search results included a deleted tweet

Link to tweet

with Google's search results showing it was posted 5 days ago, and showing this text:




Before I found that, I saw replies to Cernovich suggesting $10,000 wasn't enough to offer. I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone like Bannon provided more money.

too but won't release it.

I've done some more checking and apparently he's often offered $10,000 for any dirt he can use to promote himself via some "scoop." So this is why he thinks journalism is "expensive."

I'm still skeptical that he engineered this leak himself with his paltry offer. I think it's more likely that someone with much more power and money arranged the leak and Cernovich is the front for it, or the cut-out.

a site for IDing alt-right and Russian Twitter trolls "propagating material that originated on Russia-based accounts". I don't use it a whole lot, but I've only seen 10/10 once before (Cernovich, e.g., only scores 5/10).

https://makeadverbsgreatagain.us/mlp/

The site warns it can make mistakes 1/20 times.

I'm not saying that Vlad's behind all this, but it looks like the alt-right/Russian botnet mixed in with real MAGA types is heavily involved. Not really surprising.

They're hitting that #unsealthedeals hashtag pretty hard right now.

I don't know how much is relevant to what you're doing. It's rabbithole after rabbithole out there at the moment.

I'm going to take a step back for a while and watch the dust settle, I think.

I'm not clear why Cernovich deleted those tweets. Is he in the habit of doing that?

Nice guy, in case anybody didn't realize, BTW:

Link to tweet

Again, this is something that helps Bannon's agenda. And publishing leaked documents like this might be too hot for Bannon to risk at Breitbart at the moment. He would need a cut-out like Cernovich.

As for Cernovich deleting tweets -- I have no idea how often he does that. He posts so much garbage I rarely look at his Twitter feed, only at occasional posts of his that pop up when I'm checking for various keywords/names, or seeing him retweeted by John Schindler, who understandably has complete contempt for Cernovich.

As for why that Cernovich tweet in particular was deleted...I'd like to know what he wrote completing the sentence beginning "I'll go to jail..." Maybe he decided it wasn't too bright to boast about his willingness to go to jail. Or he might have simply hoped that getting rid of the tweet would make it less likely people would hear he'd offered money for leaked information.

Some are including Pelosi.

I've just been looking at Schindler, too. There's a string of Twitter feeds a mile long in my bookmarks, and I may have a dig around some of them unless it all gets too much.

I was wondering whether Cernovich was specifically deleting tweets about the $10,000 for some reason.

"I'll go to jail ..." ended up not being very hard - I just Google searched on Cernovic "I'll go to jail" and this came up in Google cache (there are two results on his twitter feed that come up first on my system):

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zTy7rO2pFpQJ:

Link to tweet

+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

(EDIT: Urgh. DU's software messes with embedded tweet URLs, so you'll have to do the same search I did rather than following that URL.)

I can't copy and paste from the cache, but it reads:



The second deleted tweet is a follow-up shortly after where he quotes that one and offers a "sliding scale" depending on the details provided etc. You can see who replies to him, but that may not tell us anything at all.

May not come to anything, but: https://twitter.com/@michaeldaudel

He has a link in his profile to http://jupiterbrain.com/ - at the moment it's just a "coming soon" page. I don't know whether that's going to be the whistleblowing site, or something unrelated.

We need to start following the money.

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/10029869985

I've been suspicious that this attempt to fundraise via Twitter could just be a way of adding a "populist" gloss to all this, or even laundering funding.

It seems Cernovich has a reputation for always trying to get people to chip in to support his "journalism" anyway, so maybe it's just the way he rolls.

Putting out his "appeal" for leakers on Twitter could also be cover for their already having a source.

Given what's at stake, the social media account of a discredited troll and the offer of what isn't actually a great deal of money in return for the risks seems a bit random as a way to get someone who presumably is still a federal employee to cough up the goods.

To all the appalled billionaires, Steyer, Branson, Buffet, Gates and others:
It's time to put your money where your mouth is. These Steyer ads are a vanity project. He could have done so much more to help the cause with that $20 mill and he knows it. Dig up the apprentice tapes, the kompromat tapes and anything else. Time to get in the mud

If they Alt Right were so concerned about sexual assault, they would start with their president. They are using these documents to to get rid of powerful Dems before the midterms. I in no way support sexual harassment. I want all of offenders revealed. But this reeks of a hit job against Dems. If no super conservative alt rights names are on this payout list, then my suspicions will be confirmed.

Also, liberals need to be more aggressive. We have become so passive. Why are these hashtags not on twitter?

'WhereisMariaTrump'
'Don'tWeaponizeMyRape' ,
''CernovichWhyNotTrump'
'CernovichStartWithTrump'

-- the charge was reduced to misdemeanor battery for which he had to do community service -- and who's infamous for saying there's no such thing as date rape, that it's a "liberal fiction."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Cernovich

This is about leaking documents harmful to Democrats, and using Cernovich as a cut-out to protect the real source and initiator of this leak, someone more powerful who's trying to protect or rehabilitate his image.

I still think Bannon's the most likely source of this. The obvious news site for Cernovich to take his scoop to would have been Breitbart, which has been trying to help Cernovich's pathetic image since Bannon left the WH and returned to his sewer as head sewer rat. Slimy and disreputable as Breitbart is, it's been trying very hard for months to promote Bannon as a "populist hero" and a "force of nature" (wording from Breitbart headlines and a book about Bannon promoted on Breitbart) and some sort of grand philosopher of the right whose every ludicrously pretentious or childishly pugnacious utterance is drooled over and exalted by Breitbart writers. Of course they'd want this story on Conyers out, but they wouldn't want to be accused of engineering the leak.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029871395



Are they fucking with us?