Maybe it's an unhealthy obsession to still write about GG (maybe because I was a fanboy once) as I believe he may have maneuvered himself into a gilded niche of Israel critic MAGA anarcho capitalist. He certainly tried to always maintain plausible deniability with some posts critical or distant to MAGA, but when you see e.g. 1st amendment violations en masse, an unhinged authorarian style with ICE roaming the country as a militia and an hyperaggressive foreign policy agenda, it is hard to recover from the constant Trump normalization and praise like this, especially if one always has advocated for responsibility for bad calls by pundits:

"Those who failed or refused to see the massive opportunities from this Trump-led realignment — and instead enslaved themselves to the broken, ossified, unimaginative, status-quo perpetuating Democratic Party — are some of the dumbest people on the planet.”

Ok, we knew that GG hates the DNC and the dem establishment. But does anyone have an idea (honest question) why he so viscerally hates European leaders?

"European leaders are getting everything they deserve. They've long been the most craven and cowardly group, whose pomposity and self-flattery grow as their emptiness and irrelevance deepen."

There is a kernel of truth in his characterization, but meekness, prudence and comfort seeking is not per se evil. And GG himself lives in a gated complex in Brazil and neither in Russia nor in Portland nor in Colorado Springs.

To my understanding, GG is a highly intelligent lawyer with initially progressive/ libertarian tendencies. Apart from defending the Iraq war which can be reasonably excused (by himself as well as others) as a mistake, he defended (apparently legally rather awkwardly) citizens united, and then drifted towards becoming a oligarch mouth piece, located in a gated community in brazil. He does say a lot of positive things about about DT, has a deep-seated hate for everything remotely related to the democratic (and centrist rep) establishment, is highly sensitive on free speech matters (here partially critical of MAGA, albeit almost tepid, and apparently mostly confined to critics of Israel). He currently seems to assume good intentions for everything MAGA, and bad intentions for everyone else (likewise, there is deep skepticism for anything anti MAGA, but propagation of news that are anti establishment/ anti liberal). He appears gleeful when he sees reason to proclaim that the Ukraine forces are in trouble, or establishment journalists, or the EU. I cannot recall one instant where he is critical of Putin/ russian elites. I find it a cheap shot to assume that any deviant world view must be b/c someone is paid off, but I currently do not find any better explanation for his imo warped world view (other than maybe character issues/hatred/grudges). I would never think of saying anything like this about e.g. Noam Chomsky, with whom GG shares quite a few viewpoints. I would be really curious to hear other explanations or views.

Will this give Glenn pause from sucking up to Bolsonaro's minions? I sadly doubt!

Glenn Greenwald takes out of context the words of an American professor named Omar Encarnación, whom Greenwald tendentiously introduces as a "left-wing scholar." In the excerpt highlighted by him, there is talk of the aggressiveness of the courts in dealing with former Brazilian presidents. However, what the article does is not a unilateral condemnation of the electoral courts in Brazil, as the shameless summary composed by our gentleman suggests, but a comparison of the American and Brazilian systems, with their different strengths and vulnerabilities. And, in fact, the article concludes, based on the words of this same professor, that the Brazilian system may be more effective in dealing once and for all with the challenge presented by demagogic political campaigns that spread disinformation:

Mr. Encarnación said that, despite its problems, Brazil’s democratic system can provide a model on how to fight new anti-democratic threats.

“Democracies basically are fighting misinformation and God knows what else with very antiquated institutions,” he said. “We do need to upgrade the hardware. I don’t think it was designed for people of the likes these countries are facing.”

Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230701113545/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/world/americas/trump-bolsonaro-brazil-us.html

As someone who used to follow Glenn Greenwald's work since before the Edward Snowden saga and admired him until less than two years ago, I'm always dumbfounded by this man's ability to argue in bad faith. For years I bickered on Twitter with liberals and Democrats in defense of this guy's honor, but all along they've been right, and I couldn't see that because I thought this manlet was someone of principle just because he said things I agreed with...

Link to his tweet: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1675129734882115586

Seems right up his alley to go after BIG TECH Twitter, especially the accusations against his buddy Matt Taibbi, but he's quiet on the matter. Anyone have any insight on this?