GOV/MIL Leftists Call For New "Secret Police" Force To Spy On Trump Supporters (AN ABSOLUTELY MUST-READ THREAD)
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Joe Biden’s fundamental challenge is to root out the domestic insurgency
President- elect Joe Biden gives remarks at a sending-off event in Wilmington, Del. on Jan. 19. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)
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David Ignatius Columnist
Jan. 19, 2021 at 11:45 p.m. UTC
As Ulysses S. Grant prepared to take the presidential oath of office in March 1869, his predecessor, the impeached President Andrew Johnson, sneered that Grant was “a dissembler, a deliberate deceiver” and refused to “debase” himself by attending his inauguration, writes Grant biographer Ron Chernow.
Despite this bitter inauguration send-off, a generous Grant promised that he would govern “calmly, without prejudice, hate or sectional pride.” But, through his presidency, he faced a growing insurrection from Southerners defeated in the Civil War but determined to win the peace for their lost cause. And they largely succeeded, creating a racist Jim Crow South that survived for almost 100 years.
President-elect Joe Biden will take office Wednesday with a promise to repair this broken country and begin to heal its divisions after an ideological civil war waged by his twice-impeached predecessor, Donald Trump, who will be rudely absent. But Biden will make his inaugural address from inside an armed camp, ringed by what a senior security official says will be 26,000 National Guard and up to 15,000 police, FBI and federal law enforcement officers.
The FBI believes this overwhelming force will probably deter another mob like the one that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Among the insurgents, “Leaders are telling followers: Don’t do D.C. We’ll live for another day,” says one official who’s involved in security planning and familiar with intelligence reports. But this problem is just beginning.
Biden’s fundamental challenge — even as he issues executive orders on immigration, climate change, the pandemic and a host of other domestic problems — is to root out the insurgency. A priority is to assess how deep it has spread within the military and law enforcement. Senior military officials tell me they have already identified 30 individuals among active-duty personnel, National Guard forces and veterans who might have been active in the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol.
Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has started talking with the service chiefs about new programs to vet recruits, check their social media records, educate them better about their mission, and identify and eject any who have seditious ideas. The military has had experience with gang members — neo-Nazis, Crips and Bloods, MS-13 — and learned to expel them, fast.
A retired four-star who was a battalion commander a decade ago recalls an incident with a neo-Nazi in the 10th Mountain Division. Commanders initially thought they would move him to another unit, but they decided it was essential to discharge him, immediately. “We had to be very swift and strong in stomping it out,” he recalls.
Militaries prize loyalty and discipline, but they reflect the larger society they serve. When politics is fragmented, insurgent ideas can sometimes spread in the ranks like cancer. I’ve watched that happen with armies in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and a half-dozen African and Latin American countries.
Extremist groups are like cults. They often recruit members who are experiencing personal crises and become radicalized through what one commander describes as an emotional “gateway.” The military has gotten better at predicting military personnel who may be prone to suicide; they need similar tools for identifying potentially seditious behavior without threatening First Amendment rights.
To get a sense of how widespread insurrectionist feeling may be, I asked a longtime CIA paramilitary officer, with strong pro-Trump ties and close links with former Special Operations forces comrades who share his views. His assessment: The Capitol rioters were mostly “knuckleheads living in a fantasy world with their Facebook pages.” The military and FBI should be able to “weed out the kooks.”
That sounds reassuring. But this militant Trump supporter offered an ominous warning against overdoing the crackdown. “People will visit violence on those who visit it on them,” he said.
Top Biden officials have received stern advice from military commanders: Take a page from Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy’s war against the Ku Klux Klan in the South and the Mafia in big cities. These threats need to be “ripped out” with a dragnet that’s well targeted but uses every tool in the legal arsenal.
But even as the Biden administration attacks the most seditious members of the insurrection, it should consider a tactic that’s quite radical in the current political climate — listening to the other side. The Greek historian Thucydides observed that wars are caused not only by fear and self-interest but also by the intangible feeling we describe as “pride.” An attempt to ignore this sentiment among nearly half the population will end unhappily.
Biden begins a new day for the United States on Wednesday. His challenge will be to combine toughness with generosity — and yes, as the Bible says, to love those who might consider themselves his enemies by hearing out their grievances.
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Fascist Democrats are Using a Manufactured Emergency to Create a One-Party State | Frontpage Mag
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Fascist Democrats are Using a Manufactured Emergency to Create a One-Party State
The manufactured emergency is here. The power grab comes next.
Wed Jan 20, 2021
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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
During the election, Speaker Pelosi had railed against Republicans as “domestic enemies” and “enemies of the state.” Now, Pelosi can be seen addressing soldiers outside the U.S. Capitol.
Fascist theater is now as common an occupation for the D.C. elite as upscale cocktail bars.
Pelosi’s fascist state and its crackdown on enemies is here with a militarized occupation of D.C. by 25,000 troops whose politics had to be cleared by the political commissars at the FBI, a ban on protests, and political opponents being silenced, fired, and banned by corporate monopolies.
Scenes that Americans would have once associated with banana republics and fascist dictatorships are now playing out daily as media propaganda broadcasts warn of a grave threat that requires a military occupation of Washington D.C. and the total repression of the opposition.
The wave of censorship that began with Facebook and Twitter banning President Trump has escalated to a takedown of Parler, a conservative alternative, to media campaigns urging crackdowns on a variety of alternative apps and services like Signal, Telegram, MeWe, and Zello, and a push by CNN to have AT&T and Comcast ban conservative cable networks.
There’s even an FCC crackdown on conservatives using ham radios to communicate.
Proposals are percolating through the media and its national security commentariat to transform the FBI from a law enforcement agency to a “domestic spy agency” monitoring Americans.
Last year, Hillary Clinton was warning that fascism was coming to America.
"The idea that it can't happen here is just old fashioned," Hillary had insisted while falsely claiming that the 2016 election had been stolen from her. Now her party is rolling out actual fascism while criminalizing any questions and concerns about the 2020 election.
It is happening here.
Hillary’s latest op-ed in the Washington Post, a paper owned by the richest man in the world whose company deplatformed Parler, calls for expelling Republican legislators, passing “new criminal laws”, and government oversight of social media platforms. This is fascism.
All House Democrats voted for a resolution calling for an unconstitutional 25th Amendment coup and when that failed for an impeachment that falsely blames President Trump for the violence because, even though he urged peaceful protests, his speech contained the word, “fight”.
Democrats warn that questioning their election wins is “incendiary”, “incitement”, “shouting fire in a crowded theater”, and “not protected speech”.
The basic norms of political protest and legislative opposition are rapidly being criminalized.
Many Democrats have endorsed an illegal 14th Amendment push to expel Republican Senate members, including Senator Ted Cruz, for merely questioning the election.
Expelling political opponents for questioning your abuses is the behavior of fascists.
Attorney General Karl Racine in D.C., who cheered the Black Lives Matter race rioters, is investigating conservative rally speakers for incitement for questioning the election results.
The only places where questioning election results is illegal is in dictatorships.
We now live in a country with politically vetted soldiers in the streets, political propaganda, and a climate of political terror against the people that Speaker Pelosi called “enemies of the state”.
The same Democrat machine that supported a year of Black Lives Matter riots that killed 8 people, wounded over 700 law enforcement officers, and caused over $2 billion in damage, which included violent attacks on the White House and on federal buildings, exploited a single day of violence on Capitol Hill to declare a national emergency and claim an “insurrection”.
When President Trump and Senator Tom Cotton proposed using the Insurrection Act to stop the year of Black Lives Matter violence, Democrats had accused them of fascism.
“This is Fascism,” The New Republic blared then. Now that fascism has actually arrived, it’s cheering the military occupation and the Democrat purge of the “enemies of the state”.
Exploiting a moment of crisis, real or feigned, to unroll a system of domestic repression from Stalin’s exploitation of Kirov’s murder to launch the Great Purge, to the Reichstag fire being used by the Nazis to eliminate the political opposition, is how totalitarian regimes are born.
A totalitarian fascist regime is being birthed again by the Democrats in Washington D.C.
This is not the first time that Democrats have exploited violence to criminalize and delegitimize the political opposition. After the Kennedy assassination by a socialist traitor who had defected to the USSR, Democrats blamed a climate of “right-wing hate” in Dallas. The false claim of a right-wing conspiracy was invented by the KGB and fed to the Washington Post by Khrushchev.
Democrats and the media spent two generations convincing Americans that “right-wing hate” had killed Kennedy and reviving that smear to attack every new conservative movement.
The narrative of “right-wing extremism” began before the Kennedy assassination in the same way that it always does as a pretext for suppressing political opposition to a new Democrat administration. Kennedy’s death helped solidify what would become a well-worn template.
The Clinton administration built its domestic program around fighting “right-wing extremism”. Democrats and the media focused on “anti-government extremists” while ignoring the growing threat of Islamic terrorism from Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda that would lead to 9/11.
While Biden cracks down on the conservative political opposition, history is likely to repeat itself with the rise of Islamic terrorists and a growing new threat to America.
But cracking down on conservative populism was key to Clinton’s agenda while 9/11 wasn’t.
When Obama came into office, Bill Clinton revived the smear that the Oklahoma City bombing had been caused by "right-wing, radio talk-show hosts" and that history was repeating itself. The Obama administration jettisoned the fight against Islamic terrorism and instead focused on fighting conservative populism while ISIS built a terror empire and beheaded Americans.
When the Obama administration didn’t have enough material from genuine extremists, Democrats and the media falsely blamed a shooting by a mentally ill man that killed a Republican judge and wounded former Rep. Gabby Giffords on Sarah Palin and the GOP.
No amount of time or contradictory events has managed to part Democrats from this lie.
And so the New York Times responded to the violence on Capitol Hill by rolling out an op-ed connecting the Giffords shooting with the events there. Other media outlets linked it to the Kennedy assassination and other equally discredited narratives about “right-wing hate”.
The Biden regime is following the familiar pattern of suppressing a conservative populist movement rising against its radical agenda by criminalizing it as a dangerous threat. But no previous Democrat suppression campaign, not even after the murder of a president, ever involved the scope, ruthlessness, and brutality of the one we are witnessing right now.
In the generations and decades since, the Left has gained a great deal of control over some of the biggest companies in America. Previous Democrat administrations had repressed their political opponents by abusing the IRS, the FCC, and the FBI. These forms of political repression were ugly, but fell far short of fascism. But the new partnership between the government and the monopolies has spawned a crackdown more closely resembling fascism.
The integration of governmental, cultural, and economic power within a single agenda while using it to conduct a full-spectrum campaign of criminalization, deplatforming, and banning against the political opposition has created an all-encompassing totalitarian fascist machine.
Fascism is rooted in the ancient symbol of the ‘Fasces’: the bundle of bound rods that have come to embody the centralization of power. And power has never been as centralized in America as it is today with political, cultural, and economic power in a handful of hands.
But that’s just the beginning.
The Democrats don’t want unity or healing. What they want is to bring about a one-party state just as they have in California where massive election fraud, ballot harvesting, ghost districts of illegal aliens, and the concentration of economic power in Big Tech gave Senator Kamala Harris a national political career when she won her Senate seat by running against another Democrat.
D.C. isn’t under military guard to protect our government, but a partisan political agenda.
The Democrats didn’t want troops in D.C. when their own were rioting during President Trump’s inauguration or violently attacking the White House. They don’t need 25,000 troops to stop a few hundred protesters. They need them as a show of force to suppress political opposition.
Biden and the Democrats are using a military deployment for a show of political force, using a manufactured crisis to rally support behind their radical agenda, while suppressing dissent.
That agenda is deeply unpopular among Americans. It entails eliminating election safeguards against voter fraud, opening the borders to illegal aliens, passing illegal alien amnesty, transforming D.C. and Puerto Rico into states, and packing the Supreme Court to prevent the judiciary from stopping its abuses. All of this is meant to create a one-party state.
The Democrats are marshalling all their political, economic, and cultural forces to distract attention from their agenda and to suppress the rising opposition to its plot against America.
That’s why anyone listening to 15 seconds of CNN would imagine that we are at war when the only war is the one that the Democrats and their media allies have declared on Americans.
America is not a banana republic. There is no place for military theater, lists of enemies, or declaring political opponents to be enemies of the state. The Democrats have already embraced fascism before even formally taking power. Fascists always claim to be seizing power in reaction to an emergency. The manufactured emergency is here. The power grab comes next.
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Democrats Call For FBI Probe Of Parler, Censorship Of Conservatives Reaching CRIMINAL Level
•Jan 21, 2021
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Become A Member And Protect Our Work at http://www.timcast.com Democrats Call For FBI Probe Of Parler, Censorship Of Conservatives Reaching CRIMINAL Level. Democrats say they will launch their own investigation into Parler for suspected ties to Russia and for facilitating the storming of the US Capitol Conservative censorship was already bad but this is a whole new level of escalation. Suggesting a crime may have been committed simply for running a social media platform flies in the face of everything leftists and democrats have claimed about neutrality and section 230. The left seemingly now wants to hold a tech platform responsible for the speech of its users while ignoring Twitter and Facebook are substantially worse. Republicans had years to do something and failed and now we will see the escalation. The social media censorship isn't the end, next comes debanking, evictions, firing, and more.
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Build Back Bitter
THURSDAY, JAN 21, 2021 - 22:40
Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, (gold associated)
It’s over everyone, you can sleep easy again - the party of peace, tolerance, and reconciliation is back in power. Amen. And Awomen.
They claim they want to heal and unify the nation.
But clearly the only way to do so is to create enemies lists and silence anyone with dissenting opinions.
For example, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked,
Robert Reich, Labor Secretary under Clinton, and adviser to Obama, Tweeted,
Chris Hayes, an MSNBC host agreed saying,
And Dick Costolo, the former CEO of Twitter, said,
Clearly social media companies like Twitter are a big part of the efforts to unify the nation.
Twitter deleted 70,000 accounts using the trespassing of the Capitol as an excuse.
Amazon Web Services removed the alternative social media site Parler from its servers, while Apple and Google deleted Parler from their app stores.
Facebook and Reddit joined the purge, feverishly removing content that they don’t want their users to see.
Stripe, PayPal, and Visa announced they would stop processing payments to certain politicians and non-profits guilty of thought crimes.
Yesterday I read in the completely fair and objective media that simply acknowleding this tech purge makes one a conspiracy theorist.
Axios news wrote a segment titled, Right wing’s new conspiracy: “The silencing”.
They went on to say that only crazy conspiracy theorists believe that there are efforts to silence conservative voices.
In other words, if you believe what you can see with your own eyes, you’re a conspiracy theorist.
Most recently, for example, Harvard has purged Congresswoman Elise Stefanik from its advisory board.
Stefanik’s crime? She publicly questioned voting irregularities in the 2020 election.
Now, some people may think that she’s a terrible person because of her beliefs. And in fairness it’s Harvard’s right to choose whoever they want for their board.
But now there’s a petition from the woke Harvard mob to revoke her degree, effectively erasing her existence from the institution.
They want to cancel her. Yet even merely acknowledging that this is happening now makes you a conspiracy theorist according to the media.
The left’s cries of “de-fund the police” have turned to “fund the secret police,” as lawmakers reintroduce “domestic terror” bills to create new units under the Department of Homeland Security to monitor American “extremism”.
But the #assassinatetrump and #killtrump hashtags that Twitter has allowed since 2016— that’s totally fine free speech!
During the summer BLM riots, looting Target stores and burning down police stations were acts of courage.
They even literally declared an independent autonomous zone and took over government buildings. Yet no one in the media ever used the words insurrection, sedition, or treason.
AOC praised these mostly peaceful protests and said the entire point of them is “to make people feel uncomfortable.”
But if you feel the slightest bit uncomfortable that 25,000 troops are in the nation’s capital, along with tanks and attack helicopters, then you’re a (you guessed it!) conspiracy theorist.
Remember, though, ignorance is strength, so we should probably just obey the experts.
Trust in Social Security to provide retirement. Trust the Federal Reserve to improve the economy. Trust the media to tell the truth. Trust that the tech companies will continue to allow your free speech.
Or… as an alternative… make your own Plan B.
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Senate Dems File Ethics Complaint Against Cruz, Hawley For Objecting To Electoral Results
THURSDAY, JAN 21, 2021 - 19:20
Congressional Democrats - who objected to the electoral results for the last three GOP presidents - have filed an ethics complaint against GOP Senators. Ted Cruz (TX) and Josh Hawley (MO) for objecting to the Electoral College results.
"The Senate Ethics Committee should investigate their conduct to fully understand their role. The actions of which we know demand an investigation and a determination whether disciplinary action is warranted. Until then, a cloud of uncertainty will hang over them and over this body," wrote Democratic Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), Ron Wyden (OR), Tima Smith (MN), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Mazie Hirono (HI), Tim Kaine (VA) and Sherrod Brown (OH).
The complaint wants the Ethics Committee to investigate whether Cruz and Hawley failed to "[p]ut loyalty to the highest moral principles and to country above loyalty to persons, party, or Government department," or if they engaged in "improper conduct reflecting on the Senate" linked to the January 6 Capitol 'riot.'
During the counting of electoral votes, Cruz objected to Arizona's results, while Hawley objected to Pennsylvania's results following the Capitol attack, when a group of Trump supporters and at least one prominent member of BLM breached the Capitol building and occupied it for a brief period of time before leaving on their own.
The Democratic Senators are also asking the Ethics Committee to "offer recommendations for strong disciplinary action, including up to expulsion or censure, if warranted by the facts uncovered."
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Leftists Call For New "Secret Police" Force To Spy On Trump Supporters
WEDNESDAY, JAN 20, 2021 - 18:45
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,
Perhaps channeling the spirit of the Soviet NKVD, leftists are now literally calling for a new “secret police” unit to be created at the federal level to spy on Trump supporters.
In an article published by the Daily Beast, Jeff Stein argues that existing federal agencies like the FBI are ill-equipped to stop “white terror” because they missed signs of the the pre-planning of the Capitol building siege.
The solution is to create a new “secret police” (yes, he literally uses those words) in order to “infiltrate and neutralize armed domestic extremists,” which according to the media’s latest narrative potentially includes 70 million Trump voters.
Stein even compares the Capitol breach to 9/11, an attack that killed nearly 3,000 people, and argues that a similar response to that should be directly inwardly against American citizens directed by a new “domestic spy agency.”
“One response to the 9/11 tragedy may well get renewed attention after the Capitol assault—especially if armed white nationalists are successful in carrying out more attacks in the coming days and weeks: The call for a secret police,” he writes.
The existence of a “secret police” force that subverts constitutional norms to repress the population is of course a hallmark of all dictatorial regimes, but that doesn’t appear to bother self-proclaimed “progressives.”
He also hits the nail on the head about the real reason why the creation of a new secret police unit would be necessary.
As we highlighted yesterday, in addition to a new secret police, some are calling for the creation of a Stasi-like citizen spy network that would recruit Biden supporters to spy on Trump supporters and grass them up to the authorities.
Presumably, this is all part of the national “healing” and “unity” that Joe Biden has called for.
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Buchanan On Biden's America: One Nation Or Us Versus Them?
FRIDAY, JAN 22, 2021 - 13:44
Authored by Pat Buchanan via Buchanan.org,
“We have met the enemy and he is us,” said Walt Kelly’s cartoon character Pogo, half a century ago, about what we Americans were doing to our environment.
Rereading President Joe Biden’s inaugural address, Pogo’s remark comes to mind.
Biden began on a lofty, hopeful and familiar note:
He ended in the same vein:
Within the address itself, however, Biden recited what he believes to be the historic crimes of the nation and the sins of the soul that torment a considerable portion of our population.
Among the afflictions from which America suffers, said Biden, are “political extremism, white supremacy” and “domestic terrorism.”
How do we overcome these evils?
Said Biden, “Unity is the path.”
But how can good Americans unite with white supremacists and domestic terrorists? Ought we not separate ourselves and do battle with them? And who exactly are they?
Surely, among the enemy is the mob that invaded and trashed the Capitol on Jan. 6. But what of the hundreds of thousands who came out for Trump rallies? What of the 75 million who voted for Donald Trump?
Are all the deplorables outside the company of the saved? Are they, as Hillary Clinton once said of them, “irredeemable”?
The clear implication here is that a victory for Trump on Nov. 3, would have been a defeat for democracy. How unifying is that?
He then enumerated the characteristics of our enemy:
Yet, on inauguration night, antifa mobs attacked the Democratic Party headquarters in Portland and torched American flags in Seattle, the same kind of left-wing mobs that gave us a long hot summer of rioting, looting and arson after the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd.
Has Biden ever condemned by name these mobs the way he did the mob that invaded the Capitol on Jan. 6?
Biden went on to describe U.S. history as he sees it, as a long Manichaean struggle for the soul of America.
But if our history has been an endless struggle against racism, nativism and demagoguery, and today’s struggle is against rampant anger, resentment, hatred, extremism, violence and lawlessness, as well as “white supremacists and domestic terrorists,” how can we credibly call ourselves a “great nation” and “good people”?
While Biden identifies the demonic character of the enemy, he does not name them. Who are they? How can we defeat them if the president will not identify them? And if they are evil and we are good, then why should we unite with them rather than ostracize and crush them?
In Joe’s depiction:
But is “fury” not a legitimate attribute of those fighting the hateful enemies Biden describes?
This call to unity is followed by another call, to “reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.”
After this, Biden went off on a tear against mendacity.
“Recent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and for profit.”
All our leaders have a duty and responsibility “to defend the truth and defeat the lies.”
But who are the liars? And if we are to do battle against the liars, why did Biden declare a minute later: “We must end this uncivil war.”
It was said of Warren Harding’s inaugural address that it was “an army of pompous phrases marching across the landscape in search of an idea.”
Joe Biden’s inaugural was the most confusing, contradictory and incoherent ever delivered from the steps of the Capitol, reflective of the mind of its author and the state of the Union he now leads.
Good luck, Mr. President. You will need it, and so will we.
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Us finding out they really did steal the election, that they really are corrupt and take bribes, that they really are in Chinas back Pocket. Trump kicked over some rocks and they need us to forget all that. So before these truths come out and we demand they step down, they need us gone.
Bidden IS the insurgency.
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The Purge and Reeducation - How Radicals Are Quickly Implementing a Communist Coup of America | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft
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The Purge and Reeducation – How Radicals Are Quickly Implementing a Communist Coup of America
By Joe Hoft
Published January 23, 2021 at 1:15pm
(Guest post by John L. Kachelman, Jr.)
(Photo: The “Killing Fields” of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. During that time millions of Cambodians died of starvation, execution, disease or overwork during the reeducation and “transformation” of Cambodia into the “ideal” society. Pol Pot was ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and a Khmer nationalist. He applied the horrors of Marxist philosophy just as the communist playbook directed. Those who could not be “reformed” and “reeducated” were murdered.)
“If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.” (Joseph Stalin)
One of the vilest perpetrators of political purges was Joseph Stalin. Stalin’s memorable quote regarding his attitude toward those in the opposition was: “If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.” This epitomizes the energy of the Purge—The ruling Elite decides you are wrong, you are to be punished, and you have no option but submit!
And so, I make the tragic announcement: We are walking into the “killing fields” of the 21st Century! Prepare for the Purge that is coming to YOU! Anticipate the “reeducation” centers your children and grandchildren will be forced to attend.
HOW IS THIS HAPPENING?
How can a political purge be tolerated? How can the population sit complacently while a “list” of the “undesirables” is cobbled together by the various Elite authorities? The answer is very simple. “The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better” (George Orwell). History proves that when people feel happy they will tolerate anything; they will do anything; they will cling to the happy avenue even when told it is bringing destruction. This is clearly evident in the choices of drug addicts but it is also evident in the lives of those addicted to the methods that are being used to prepare for the Purge. Happy people are going to be less vigilant, more open about every aspect of life that gives them happy feelings, and they are eager to share their personal/private with everyone! This manipulated happiness brings an unimagined harvest of personal data to the Elites.
How can personal/private data be so easily obtained by the Elite who compile a list of the “undesirables”? You safely guard your family by making sure their diet is healthy; you double-check all doors to make sure they are locked; you warn about “stranger danger”; you insist that seatbelts be worn…BUT you have served up the security and welfare of your family on a silver platter by posting photos, family details, all aspects of your life on social media (most use Facebook) and permitting anyone to “friend” you and then you are in their list and available to their pages and they have access to your pages. You have connected with untold “friends” who are connected with untold numbers who are privy to “your page.”
The platform administrators know all details about you. Your posts have been mined for details that will amaze you. You have been warned BUT you continue to expose your children, grandchildren and all you love to this “social disease.”
WHAT EVIDENCES ARE AVAILABLE
First, The DEMOCRATS/RINOS/NEVER TRUMPERS (NTs) advocate the removal of a free press. The conservative publications are classified as the seedbed of treasonous news. Having been such identified the solution is simple—destroy all publications that do not agree with the PROGRESSVE/DEMS/RINOS/NTs! “We’re going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment so that you can’t just spew disinformation, and misinformation,” said Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). “Congress is looking into reining in our media environment to prevent the spread of disinformation.” She has not only targeted freedom of the press but has suggested that lists of Trump supporters should be compiled and used to hold the President’s supporters accountable in the future.
In an amazing Twitter exchange on January 13, 2021 AOC stated, “The only way our country is going to heal is through the actual liberation of southern states…liberation of working people from an economic, social, and racial oppression.” According to PROGRESSIVE DEMS this reeducation of the Southern States is critical if the USA is to be “healed.”
The Purge is VERBALIZED—“Here is a sitting member of Congress saying that her party intends to shut down any media that they disagree with and nobody from the liberal media has a problem with it at all. That’s probably because they know the democrats aren’t coming after them, and censorship and speech suppression don’t count when it happens to conservative media.”
Second, The DEMOCRATS/RINOS/NEVER TRUMPERS (NTs) are beginning the Purge. There are ample reports about this occurring. I have had opportunity to talk personally with those who endured the Khmer Rouge purge and lived in the reeducation camps. I have personally talked with family members who had loved ones exiled to the USSR gulags because of political views. The horrors of past history explain the unthinkable horrors that are becoming evident in the USA today. From the Halls of Congress to the rants of the news anchors on MSM that are broadcast to millions, the Purge is being encouraged.
There is a hit list targeting Trump and his supporters. It is confirmed that the PROGRESSVE/DEMS/RINOS/NTs have lists of those who need to be punished and reeducated. During the week of 10 January 2021 it was announced by Forbes that the large corporations in the USA must never hire any Trump supporter! Here is the threatening intimidation: “Donald Trump devolved from commander-in-chief to liar-in-chief.” The magazine mocks Trump associates as “fabulists.” It goes on to say, “Let it be known to the business world: Hire any of Trump’s fellow fabulists, and Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie. We’re going to scrutinize, double-check, investigate with the same skepticism we’d approach a Trump tweet.” Forbes then makes an explicit threat to report negatively on any company that dares hire any of the people supporting Trump. “Want to ensure the world’s biggest business media brand approaches you as a potential funnel of disinformation? Then hire away.”
This is not imagined—this is the current reality!
Another frightening point of the USA political Purge is documented by the action of Hillary Clinton who has called for ALL Trump supporters to be identified as “Domestic Terrorists.” Identified as such, these terrorists need to be tracked and surveilled (January 12, 2021). Clinton labeled Trump supporters “white supremacists” and “domestic terrorists” in a Washington Post op-ed. “Emboldened by the Big Tech purge of President Trump and thousands of conservatives, Hillary Clinton is now calling for Trump supporters to be surveilled and tracked.” How does HRC justify her labeling of political opponents? Listen to her own words, “Trump ran for president on a vision of America where whiteness is valued at the expense of everything else. In the White House, he gave white supremacists, members of the extreme right and conspiracy theorists their most powerful platforms yet… he had whipped a dangerous element of our country into a frenzy. His supporters began planning their insurrection, making plans to march on the Capitol and ‘stop the steal.’ Removing Trump from office is essential, and I believe he should be impeached. Members of Congress who joined him in subverting our democracy should resign, and those who conspired with the domestic terrorists should be expelled immediately. But that alone won’t remove white supremacy and extremism from America. There are changes elected leaders should pursue immediately, including advocating new criminal laws at the state and federal levels that hold white supremacists accountable and tracking the activities of extremists…Twitter and other companies made the right decision to stop Trump from using their platforms, but they will have to do more to stop the spread of violent speech and conspiracy theories.”
Do you hear what she is advocating? The Purge is to target those with “whiteness.” It is the obvious RACIAL PURGE ever recorded in history. She calls for new laws to hold Trump supporters accountable and for their everyday activities to be tracked. She says “more” will have to be done—it is frightening to consider what this “more” involves!
The beginning of the political Purge is highlighted by a Congressional bill proposed by Dem Whip James Clyburn who intends to make the “Black National Anthem” the official USA National Hymn in order to “bring the country together.” This is acceptable to the PROGRESSVE/DEMS/RINOS/NTs because they reject “linear reasoning.” All decisions are based on their “feelings” at the moment (this is the fruit of rejecting any absolutes in life).
One of the clearest Purge actions was announced in a No-Fly order by DELTA. Common citizens were targeted by this vicious action. This article describes this action, Delta Puts Trump Supporters Who Harassed Mitt Romney, Lindsey Graham On No-Fly List. “Delta has put some of President Donald Trump’s most aggressive supporters on a no-fly list, after they harassed Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Mitt Romney (Utah) in airports last week. In an interview with Reuters on Thursday, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said that passengers who targeted the senators would no longer be able to fly on the airline. The airline confirmed the move.”
The reality of the Purge is illustrated by baseball great Curt Shilling. He received a notice that AIG was cancelling his insurance. Why? Schilling tweeted that AIG canceled his insurance policy due to his “social media profile.” Now, after this Purge, tell me that Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms are really a “nice” business! The Purge says your “social media profile” is a valid reason to terminate your insurance!
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The Purge is enacted—Here is a well-written summary with the title “The Left Launches Massive Purge of Conservatives All Across Society” …We no longer live in America…We now and hence forward will live in a Banana Republic where liberals seek the utter destruction of their counterparts, not just politically, but in personal terms, and in total. Democrats and their willing quislings in big tech and society are now looking to purge this country of anyone who oppose them. We are living in a time just short of Castro’s revolution where tens of thousands were murdered to wipe out their political ideals. While we are not quite yet at the death squad stage, we are at the stage where the left intends to perpetrate intellectual genocide. It will be the end of any conservative thought on the Internet, in our schools, governments, entertainment, and society…The great purge has already begun, you see. Late last week, the gods of big tech, and the heads of corporations already began to initiate the Democrat Party’s version of Mao’s ‘cultural revolution’.”
Third, The DEMOCRATS/RINOS/NEVER TRUMPERS (NTs) fulfill their promise of “fundamental transformation” of the USA. Obama announced his intentions of “fundamentally transforming America.” Most shrugged at his devious evil objective and said “that will never happen in America!” They were blind and ignorant of the historical pattern he was following. Life in the USA will be fundamentally transformed when the PROGRESSVE/DEMS/RINOS/NTs are allowed full exercise of their plan. We are in the early stages of the Purge but a more devilish agenda lies ahead. The full impact of this evil is best presented in a report from Project Veritas that recorded PBS Principal Counsel Michael Beller inciting violence against Trump supporters in a radical leftwing rant. Read this amazing statement: “Even if Biden wins, we go for all the Republican voters, and Homeland Security will take their children away, and we’ll put Trump supporters’ children into re-education camps,” the man, identified as Beller in the undated video, says. Trump’s supporters are raising “horrible children” that will become “horrible people,” he continues. “Kids who are growing up, knowing nothing but Trump, [Trump supporters] will be raising a generation of intolerant horrible people, horrible kids.”
The Purge is promised—What is happening has been public for some time but many dismissed it as “impossible in the USA.” These refuse to accept the reality of the pure evil threatening our nation’s existence. What has been promised is now being delivered by the PROGRESSVE/DEMS/RINOS/NTs and many citizens are allowing it to happen.
Fourth, The Purge is directed by the Political Elite. There is a historical constant in the narratives of political purges. Actions are commanded and controlled by an “Elite” group. This Elite is never required to do what is commanded of the population. Pol Pot and his inner-circle never dirtied their hands with the agrarian revolution that forced the evacuation of cities and the “killing fields” of anarchy. Today the political Elite in the USA is composed of the DEMOCRATS/RINOS/NEVER TRUMPERS (NTs) who think they sit invincibly in the “catbird seat” issuing demands, damning President Trump and his supporters. But historical reality teaches that these are not “invincible” and will be replaced as the Elite turns to bite and devour one another.
The direction of the Elite will include forced reeducation. When North Vietnam captured the south, millions in the south were arrested, tortured, imprisoned, murdered and the survivors were sent to reeducation camps. In another undercover video, Kyle Jurek, an Iowa field organizer for the Sanders campaign, said the country will have to “spend billions” on reeducation. Jurek suggested the use of gulags for “reeducation” of Trump supporters and praised political labor camps. He said gulags have been misunderstood and were actually “a lot better” than described.
If you are offended by the language of the Elite and you choose neither to read nor listen to their abominable words then prepare yourself for an even greater shock when the Purge strikes your friend and family!
The Purge is Directed by the Elite—This point is best summarized: “The will of the American people has to be subordinate to the will of Pelosi” — Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) January 12, 2021.
This is where we are…
The citizens of the USA are in the most precarious position our nation has faced. Devilish forces from within are seeking to change fundamentally our nation. Our political process has been in a failed state for some years. There is no longer civil debate and reasoned laws based upon our Constitution. Foreign governments have compromised national legislators and suborned the integrity of the House of Representatives and Senate—and such is met only with shrugs and reelection of the failed politicians!
The Big Tech companies (Facebook; Apple; Google; Twitter, etc) have successfully de-platformed free speech, marked and tracked innocent citizens as national “terrorists.” We are assured that a “list” of Trump supporters is compiled and will be used to identify and punish the “terrorists.” “Let’s be real for once. When members of the press and law openly call for child confiscation, reeducation camps and punishments for the side they don’t like. Then we live in a banana republic.”
Illustrating just how the Big Tech companies (Facebook; Apple; Google; Twitter) devilishly plan to Purge those who hold conservative views is the recent release of a leaked video from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. He attacked free speech in America with his decision to ban permanently the accounts of President Trump and many other conservative voices. Now a published video, by a Twitter insider, it is revealed that Dorsey vows that censorship will be much broader in scope.
“We are focused on one account [@realDonaldTrump] right now, but this is going to be much bigger than just one account, and it’s going to go on for much longer than just this day, this week, and the next few weeks, and go on beyond the inauguration.We need to think much longer term around how these dynamics play out over time. I don’t believe this is going away anytime soon.”
America! The political Purge HAS begun. Many of you who have sat in silence and indifferently thought that you are safe from all political intrigue must awaken to the reality of life in the USA. You can continue to play around on Facebook, Twitter and the other Big Tech sites. BUT, you are fueling their efforts to destroy the USA. There is NO INNOCENCE on the Big Tech sites. Those involved on these sites are upholding the Purge!
One final reference to plead for YOU to act now to stop the Purge.
Cheryl K. Chumley (The Washington Times – Friday, January 15, 2021) posted an article titled, “Big Tech will only be halted by mass boycott.” As usual she presents an excellent read detailing how the political Purge is possible because the Big Tech gives big money. The way to stop the Purge is to stop the money.
“The only way to stop Big Tech and put an end to the social media CEOs’ hatred of and hostility to all-things-conservative is for consumers to rally in one huge mass and mount an immediate boycott of all these platforms. But the chance of that happening, seriously, is slim. Slim to none, actually. Big Tech will only be stopped from its takeover of free speech if citizens fight in a way that hits hard at the pocketbooks. But the reality is most citizens are unaware of Big Tech’s power, others are unconcerned.” And this should be a PERMANENT boycott—not just 24 hours!
Are you concerned enough for your nation, your family, your children and your grandchildren to boycott permanently Big Tech? The decision will be difficult because as Orwell observed many will opt for “happiness” instead of “freedom.”
The Big Tech knows they have you hooked with “happiness” and so you will sacrifice your freedom. “The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better” (George Orwell).
The Purge is enacted—Here is a well-written summary with the title “The Left Launches Massive Purge of Conservatives All Across Society” …We no longer live in America…We now and hence forward will live in a Banana Republic where liberals seek the utter destruction of their counterparts, not just politically, but in personal terms, and in total. Democrats and their willing quislings in big tech and society are now looking to purge this country of anyone who oppose them. We are living in a time just short of Castro’s revolution where tens of thousands were murdered to wipe out their political ideals. While we are not quite yet at the death squad stage, we are at the stage where the left intends to perpetrate intellectual genocide. It will be the end of any conservative thought on the Internet, in our schools, governments, entertainment, and society…The great purge has already begun, you see. Late last week, the gods of big tech, and the heads of corporations already began to initiate the Democrat Party’s version of Mao’s ‘cultural revolution’.”
Third, The DEMOCRATS/RINOS/NEVER TRUMPERS (NTs) fulfill their promise of “fundamental transformation” of the USA. Obama announced his intentions of “fundamentally transforming America.” Most shrugged at his devious evil objective and said “that will never happen in America!” They were blind and ignorant of the historical pattern he was following. Life in the USA will be fundamentally transformed when the PROGRESSVE/DEMS/RINOS/NTs are allowed full exercise of their plan. We are in the early stages of the Purge but a more devilish agenda lies ahead. The full impact of this evil is best presented in a report from Project Veritas that recorded PBS Principal Counsel Michael Beller inciting violence against Trump supporters in a radical leftwing rant. Read this amazing statement: “Even if Biden wins, we go for all the Republican voters, and Homeland Security will take their children away, and we’ll put Trump supporters’ children into re-education camps,” the man, identified as Beller in the undated video, says. Trump’s supporters are raising “horrible children” that will become “horrible people,” he continues. “Kids who are growing up, knowing nothing but Trump, [Trump supporters] will be raising a generation of intolerant horrible people, horrible kids.”
The Purge is promised—What is happening has been public for some time but many dismissed it as “impossible in the USA.” These refuse to accept the reality of the pure evil threatening our nation’s existence. What has been promised is now being delivered by the PROGRESSVE/DEMS/RINOS/NTs and many citizens are allowing it to happen.
Fourth, The Purge is directed by the Political Elite. There is a historical constant in the narratives of political purges. Actions are commanded and controlled by an “Elite” group. This Elite is never required to do what is commanded of the population. Pol Pot and his inner-circle never dirtied their hands with the agrarian revolution that forced the evacuation of cities and the “killing fields” of anarchy. Today the political Elite in the USA is composed of the DEMOCRATS/RINOS/NEVER TRUMPERS (NTs) who think they sit invincibly in the “catbird seat” issuing demands, damning President Trump and his supporters. But historical reality teaches that these are not “invincible” and will be replaced as the Elite turns to bite and devour one another.
The direction of the Elite will include forced reeducation. When North Vietnam captured the south, millions in the south were arrested, tortured, imprisoned, murdered and the survivors were sent to reeducation camps. In another undercover video, Kyle Jurek, an Iowa field organizer for the Sanders campaign, said the country will have to “spend billions” on reeducation. Jurek suggested the use of gulags for “reeducation” of Trump supporters and praised political labor camps. He said gulags have been misunderstood and were actually “a lot better” than described.
If you are offended by the language of the Elite and you choose neither to read nor listen to their abominable words then prepare yourself for an even greater shock when the Purge strikes your friend and family!
The Purge is Directed by the Elite—This point is best summarized: “The will of the American people has to be subordinate to the will of Pelosi” — Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) January 12, 2021.
This is where we are…
The citizens of the USA are in the most precarious position our nation has faced. Devilish forces from within are seeking to change fundamentally our nation. Our political process has been in a failed state for some years. There is no longer civil debate and reasoned laws based upon our Constitution. Foreign governments have compromised national legislators and suborned the integrity of the House of Representatives and Senate—and such is met only with shrugs and reelection of the failed politicians!
The Big Tech companies (Facebook; Apple; Google; Twitter, etc) have successfully de-platformed free speech, marked and tracked innocent citizens as national “terrorists.” We are assured that a “list” of Trump supporters is compiled and will be used to identify and punish the “terrorists.” “Let’s be real for once. When members of the press and law openly call for child confiscation, reeducation camps and punishments for the side they don’t like. Then we live in a banana republic.”
Illustrating just how the Big Tech companies (Facebook; Apple; Google; Twitter) devilishly plan to Purge those who hold conservative views is the recent release of a leaked video from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. He attacked free speech in America with his decision to ban permanently the accounts of President Trump and many other conservative voices. Now a published video, by a Twitter insider, it is revealed that Dorsey vows that censorship will be much broader in scope.
“We are focused on one account [@realDonaldTrump] right now, but this is going to be much bigger than just one account, and it’s going to go on for much longer than just this day, this week, and the next few weeks, and go on beyond the inauguration.We need to think much longer term around how these dynamics play out over time. I don’t believe this is going away anytime soon.”
America! The political Purge HAS begun. Many of you who have sat in silence and indifferently thought that you are safe from all political intrigue must awaken to the reality of life in the USA. You can continue to play around on Facebook, Twitter and the other Big Tech sites. BUT, you are fueling their efforts to destroy the USA. There is NO INNOCENCE on the Big Tech sites. Those involved on these sites are upholding the Purge!
One final reference to plead for YOU to act now to stop the Purge.
Cheryl K. Chumley (The Washington Times – Friday, January 15, 2021) posted an article titled, “Big Tech will only be halted by mass boycott.” As usual she presents an excellent read detailing how the political Purge is possible because the Big Tech gives big money. The way to stop the Purge is to stop the money.
“The only way to stop Big Tech and put an end to the social media CEOs’ hatred of and hostility to all-things-conservative is for consumers to rally in one huge mass and mount an immediate boycott of all these platforms. But the chance of that happening, seriously, is slim. Slim to none, actually. Big Tech will only be stopped from its takeover of free speech if citizens fight in a way that hits hard at the pocketbooks. But the reality is most citizens are unaware of Big Tech’s power, others are unconcerned.” And this should be a PERMANENT boycott—not just 24 hours!
Are you concerned enough for your nation, your family, your children and your grandchildren to boycott permanently Big Tech? The decision will be difficult because as Orwell observed many will opt for “happiness” instead of “freedom.”
The Big Tech knows they have you hooked with “happiness” and so you will sacrifice your freedom. “The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better” (George Orwell).
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Pro-Abortion Group Storms Catholic Church in Ohio, Knocks Over Table, Shouts Profanities (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila
A far-left pro-abortion group disrupted a church service at St.
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A far-left pro-abortion group disrupted a church service at St. Joseph’s Catholic Cathedral in Columbus, Ohio Friday on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
The group of Marxists barged into the church, knocked over a table and shouted profanities.
“Two, four, six, eight this church teaches hate!” the protesters shouted. “Roe is the floor, we demand more!”
Security quickly rushed in and tossed out the screaming protesters.
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The Marxist protesters were emboldened by Biden’s vow to codify Roe v. Wade on Friday.
“The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to codifying Roe v Wade and appointing judges that respect foundational precedents like Roe,” the White House said.
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Top Conservative Leader Tom Fitton Is Still Suspended by Twitter 7 Days After a 7 Day Suspension for Tweeting the Truth on HCQ | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
Tom Fitton from Judicial Watch was censored by for 7 days on January 9th. Big Tech, Big Media, the Democrats and foreign states are doing all they can to prevent any mention of Joe Biden’s election steal away from President Trump. We’ve never seen anything like this in a country that once valued...
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Top Conservative Leader Tom Fitton Is Still Suspended by Twitter 7 Days After a 7 Day Suspension for Tweeting the Truth on HCQ
By Jim Hoft
Published January 23, 2021 at 4:37pm
Tom Fitton from Judicial Watch was censored by Twitter for 7 days on January 9th.
Big Tech, Big Media, the Democrats and foreign states are doing all they can to prevent any mention of Joe Biden’s election steal away from President Trump. We’ve never seen anything like this in a country that once valued free speech. Fitton is a leader in the conservative movement.
Fitton posted a truthful tweet on the drug Hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug that continues to prove its success in treating the China virus.
There are now over 193 international studies that prove the effectiveness of Hydroxychloroquine in treating the coronavirus, especially when administered at the onset of the disease.
The tech giants would rather see tens of thousands of innocent people die than allow this information out to the public. We have never seen anything like this.
On Saturday we heard word that Tom Fitton is still suspended off of Twitter — 14 days later. Tom is a leading voice for truth in this nation.
Maybe family members should start a class action suit against Twitter for knowingly hiding a successful Coronavirus treatment from the American public?
Tom Fitton wrote about this on Facebook:
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Patriots Rally at Bed, Bath and Beyond in South Florida for 'My Pillow' Founder Mike Lindell (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
On Saturday morning Steve Bannon and the War Room spoke with Karyn Turk in Florida at the Boca Raton rally in support of My Pillow founder Mike Lindell.
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Patriots Rally at Bed, Bath and Beyond in South Florida for ‘My Pillow’ Founder Mike Lindell (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
Published January 23, 2021 at 1:40pm
On Saturday morning Steve Bannon and the War Room spoke with Karyn Turk in Florida at the Boca Raton rally in support of My Pillow founder Mike Lindell.
Karyn and dozens of patriotic Americans protested at the local Bed, Bath and Beyond after the company announced earlier this week they they would discontinue carrying the “My Pillow” products after the CEO Mike Lindell spoke about against voter fraud in the 2020 election.
The cancel culture movement is now working to bankrupt and ruin anyone who dares to speak out against the nonsense of the far left.
Via Pandemic War Room:
Rumble video on website 6:59 min
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Confessions Of A Deprogrammed Trump Supporter
SATURDAY, JAN 23, 2021 - 18:35
Authored (satirically) by Matthew Ehret via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
As many people are aware, CNN recently aired a wonderful interview by former Moonie-turned-cult-deprogrammer Steve Hassan giving advice to Americans wishing to deprogram their MAGA-hat wearing loved ones, now that the age of Trump is coming to an end.
I was fortunate enough to have read Hassan’s book and had the loving scrub-brush of truth wash my brain of all of its formerly pro-Trump sympathies and can honestly say that I am most certainly better off for having left those old delusions in the past.
For one thing, I used to enjoy my right to free speech… but thanks to the terrible events of January 6, 2021 that left 3 people dead, horned Q supporters doing photo ops for media, pro-Trump rioters let into the capitol building by guards, and busloads of conspicuous violent figures whom some say were “provocateurs” (whatever that means), I have come to realize that I was all wrong. Free speech is actually very dangerous. Words we took for granted like “patriot”, “nationalism”, or “vote fraud” are actually very racist and using them is a sure fire sign that you might be a domestic terrorist. At any rate, using them should at least be enough to get someone banned from social media and put under surveillance.
For a long time, I thought that record numbers of Black and Hispanic voters supporting Trump in 2020 meant that Trump was not racist, but I now realize that these poor folks just suffered from “multiracial whiteness”.
I thought that questioning voting machines that had been caught red handed manipulating elections across the world was patriotic and that somehow some conglomeration of Big Tech, the media, intelligence agencies and a thing called “deep state” were colluding to create a color revolution in the USA… but I now realize that I was actually supporting conspiracy theories and thus violence and thus domestic terrorism.
I was so far gone that my pre-deprogrammed self was actually persuaded in the crazy idea that depopulation agendas hid behind the cover of a “Great Reset agenda”, concocted by a shadowy elite of sociopathic oligarchs. I have now learned that this was either a silly conspiracy theory, the result of my own delusions or if it was true, then I can at least say with certainty that it is all for my own good.
The truth that I have now come to discover, is that free speech has just gone too far.
This practice has reached its limits, and Twitter’s legal executive Vijaya Gadde is absolutely right. Social Media should do its civic duty and extend its censorship of “dangerous thoughts” to citizens and political officials outside of the USA in order to protect the world from itself.
If other world leaders are worried about this new truth, then they should seriously do some soul searching and learn to think differently.
The old me is long gone, and now all I can say is “thank god” Joe Biden has found himself in the position of leader of the free world at this historic moment of change.
For awhile it was looking like Donald Trump would actually stop forever wars, and untie the U.S. military’s involvement from the CIA. That white supremacist actually came precariously close to destroying the foundations of globalization that many enlightened billionaires had put decades of energy into organizing- first destroying Obama’s Transpacific Partnership, then the Paris Climate Accords and THEN he had the nerve to scrap NAFTA itself by giving nation states a say in economic affairs!
He even committed the sin of criticizing NATO itself- the very foundation of western collective security from the obvious threats of Russia and China!
He called for insane things like “bringing back manufacturing to the USA”, “restoring protectionism”, and “making space exploration and arctic development a priority for the nation” and everyone knows that this is all so 1963.
But now the “disturbance” is over, and the age of Biden has arrived!
Joe Biden is a man who understands what liberal values and the “rules-based order” are really about.
He was wise enough to get onto the unipolar bandwagon before it was popular by drafting the 1994 surveillance bill that John Ashcroft later used verbatim for the Patriot Act after 9/11.
He was smart enough to know that Wall Street couldn’t lead America into the 21st century as long as Glass-Steagall was in place and voted for its repeal in 1999.
He was one of the loudest supporters of NAFTA which helped reduce carbon emissions drastically by exporting dirty industrial jobs oversees where they should be.
He also gave the Credit Card companies the political support they needed to stop citizens from abusing their generosity which went a long way to help Americans build character and take responsibility for their short sighted consumer decisions.
After 9/11, Biden also brilliantly supported the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq (who may not have had anything to do with 9/11 but at least showed the terrorists who’s boss).
Unlike those cultish Trumping fascists, Biden was courageous enough to proclaim even before the horrible insurrectionary riots of January 6th, that a new Patriot Act/Domestic Terror Bill would be needed to purge the republic of dangerous terrorism and the insidious thought crimes which spread doubt in honest elections, and distrust in the benevolent political structures leading the western world. Thinking people know, that thought does sometimes cause action… and if we want to truly remedy wrong actions like the riots of January 6th, or dangerous COVID-denialism, then we should most certainly take the battle to the realm of the mind.
The brilliant Steve Hassan even recognized this reality in his CNN interview when he said that “the bottom line is all of America needs deprogramming because we’ve all been negatively influenced by Donald Trump.”
Sure, some people think that the 46 deaths and 32 riots caused by Antifa and BLM over the past six months might qualify as domestic terrorism, but that’s only because they are infected with racist wrong think and don’t realize that these groups were just fighting against fascism and racism.
Certainly, the first 100 days after Biden’s inauguration will be inspired.
Already, Biden has made commitments to sign the USA back onto the legally binding Paris Climate Accords to help us win the war against climate, and has shown the good sense to reverse Trump’s disastrous decision to break the anti-China TPP in 2016. Biden always said he would renegotiate the TPP in order “to hold China accountable”, and everyone knows Trump’s selfish decision only helped China by freeing up its neighbors to work together on the BRI. If only Trump hadn’t killed TPP, then the 14 nation strong Regional Cooperation Economic Partnership which China just finalized would never have happened.
Most importantly, our benevolent overlords who meet at Davos every year are happy once more and have even kicked off Biden’s inauguration with a special celebration entitled “the Davos Agenda” running from January 25-29. According to the WEF, this event will “mark the launch of the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset Initiative and begin the preparation of the Special Annual Meeting in the spring. Each day will focus on one of the five domains of the Great Reset Initiative.”
The USA’s new Special Envoy on Climate, John Kerry, captured the excitement of this wonderful moment perfectly when he said:
WEF President Klaus Schwab has taught us that the “age of owning things” is so passe, and we know that this obsolete relic of capitalism isn’t compatible in our new age of global peace and brotherhood.
Ownership of “things” just makes us selfish and forget about the real purpose of life.. which is really about sacrifice. Establishing new supranational organizations to manage the levers of consumption and production according to evidence-based standards and scientific realities of carrying capacity is the only remedy to the evils of populism and being ignorant to this reality doesn’t lessen the fact that boards of experts who are smarter than you say that it is so.
According to the WEF’s Great Reset website global CO2 output collapsed by over 7% during the 12 months of global COVID-19 shutdowns… which means the COVID-19 is more of a blessing than many dim witted selfish nationalists who like owning things realize.
So what if the world population will contract under the shutdown of the world economy under COVID lockdowns? And so what if we lose our capacity to support industrial civilization through the imposition of global green energy grid?
Didn’t the late great Maurice Strong (who was WEF Executive Director and father of the Great Reset), ask the question in 1991:
Most importantly, China has to really deprogram itself from her belief that Russia is a worthwhile partner in the 21st century.
Xi made a good decision to attend this month’s Great Reset conference and both he and Modi would do well to abandon dirty fossil fuels, their support of nuclear energy development or space mining in order to adapt their realities to the computer models which have been telling us how to hitch our destinies to a world of entropy and diminishing returns.
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Confessions Of A Deprogrammed Trump Supporter
SATURDAY, JAN 23, 2021 - 18:35
Authored (satirically) by Matthew Ehret via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
As many people are aware, CNN recently aired a wonderful interview by former Moonie-turned-cult-deprogrammer Steve Hassan giving advice to Americans wishing to deprogram their MAGA-hat wearing loved ones, now that the age of Trump is coming to an end.
I was fortunate enough to have read Hassan’s book and had the loving scrub-brush of truth wash my brain of all of its formerly pro-Trump sympathies and can honestly say that I am most certainly better off for having left those old delusions in the past.
For one thing, I used to enjoy my right to free speech… but thanks to the terrible events of January 6, 2021 that left 3 people dead, horned Q supporters doing photo ops for media, pro-Trump rioters let into the capitol building by guards, and busloads of conspicuous violent figures whom some say were “provocateurs” (whatever that means), I have come to realize that I was all wrong. Free speech is actually very dangerous. Words we took for granted like “patriot”, “nationalism”, or “vote fraud” are actually very racist and using them is a sure fire sign that you might be a domestic terrorist. At any rate, using them should at least be enough to get someone banned from social media and put under surveillance.
For a long time, I thought that record numbers of Black and Hispanic voters supporting Trump in 2020 meant that Trump was not racist, but I now realize that these poor folks just suffered from “multiracial whiteness”.
I thought that questioning voting machines that had been caught red handed manipulating elections across the world was patriotic and that somehow some conglomeration of Big Tech, the media, intelligence agencies and a thing called “deep state” were colluding to create a color revolution in the USA… but I now realize that I was actually supporting conspiracy theories and thus violence and thus domestic terrorism.
I was so far gone that my pre-deprogrammed self was actually persuaded in the crazy idea that depopulation agendas hid behind the cover of a “Great Reset agenda”, concocted by a shadowy elite of sociopathic oligarchs. I have now learned that this was either a silly conspiracy theory, the result of my own delusions or if it was true, then I can at least say with certainty that it is all for my own good.
The truth that I have now come to discover, is that free speech has just gone too far.
This practice has reached its limits, and Twitter’s legal executive Vijaya Gadde is absolutely right. Social Media should do its civic duty and extend its censorship of “dangerous thoughts” to citizens and political officials outside of the USA in order to protect the world from itself.
If other world leaders are worried about this new truth, then they should seriously do some soul searching and learn to think differently.
The old me is long gone, and now all I can say is “thank god” Joe Biden has found himself in the position of leader of the free world at this historic moment of change.
For awhile it was looking like Donald Trump would actually stop forever wars, and untie the U.S. military’s involvement from the CIA. That white supremacist actually came precariously close to destroying the foundations of globalization that many enlightened billionaires had put decades of energy into organizing- first destroying Obama’s Transpacific Partnership, then the Paris Climate Accords and THEN he had the nerve to scrap NAFTA itself by giving nation states a say in economic affairs!
He even committed the sin of criticizing NATO itself- the very foundation of western collective security from the obvious threats of Russia and China!
He called for insane things like “bringing back manufacturing to the USA”, “restoring protectionism”, and “making space exploration and arctic development a priority for the nation” and everyone knows that this is all so 1963.
But now the “disturbance” is over, and the age of Biden has arrived!
Joe Biden is a man who understands what liberal values and the “rules-based order” are really about.
He was wise enough to get onto the unipolar bandwagon before it was popular by drafting the 1994 surveillance bill that John Ashcroft later used verbatim for the Patriot Act after 9/11.
He was smart enough to know that Wall Street couldn’t lead America into the 21st century as long as Glass-Steagall was in place and voted for its repeal in 1999.
He was one of the loudest supporters of NAFTA which helped reduce carbon emissions drastically by exporting dirty industrial jobs oversees where they should be.
He also gave the Credit Card companies the political support they needed to stop citizens from abusing their generosity which went a long way to help Americans build character and take responsibility for their short sighted consumer decisions.
After 9/11, Biden also brilliantly supported the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq (who may not have had anything to do with 9/11 but at least showed the terrorists who’s boss).
Unlike those cultish Trumping fascists, Biden was courageous enough to proclaim even before the horrible insurrectionary riots of January 6th, that a new Patriot Act/Domestic Terror Bill would be needed to purge the republic of dangerous terrorism and the insidious thought crimes which spread doubt in honest elections, and distrust in the benevolent political structures leading the western world. Thinking people know, that thought does sometimes cause action… and if we want to truly remedy wrong actions like the riots of January 6th, or dangerous COVID-denialism, then we should most certainly take the battle to the realm of the mind.
The brilliant Steve Hassan even recognized this reality in his CNN interview when he said that “the bottom line is all of America needs deprogramming because we’ve all been negatively influenced by Donald Trump.”
Sure, some people think that the 46 deaths and 32 riots caused by Antifa and BLM over the past six months might qualify as domestic terrorism, but that’s only because they are infected with racist wrong think and don’t realize that these groups were just fighting against fascism and racism.
Certainly, the first 100 days after Biden’s inauguration will be inspired.
Already, Biden has made commitments to sign the USA back onto the legally binding Paris Climate Accords to help us win the war against climate, and has shown the good sense to reverse Trump’s disastrous decision to break the anti-China TPP in 2016. Biden always said he would renegotiate the TPP in order “to hold China accountable”, and everyone knows Trump’s selfish decision only helped China by freeing up its neighbors to work together on the BRI. If only Trump hadn’t killed TPP, then the 14 nation strong Regional Cooperation Economic Partnership which China just finalized would never have happened.
Most importantly, our benevolent overlords who meet at Davos every year are happy once more and have even kicked off Biden’s inauguration with a special celebration entitled “the Davos Agenda” running from January 25-29. According to the WEF, this event will “mark the launch of the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset Initiative and begin the preparation of the Special Annual Meeting in the spring. Each day will focus on one of the five domains of the Great Reset Initiative.”
The USA’s new Special Envoy on Climate, John Kerry, captured the excitement of this wonderful moment perfectly when he said:
According to the Great Reset architects, this is definitely the right idea.
WEF President Klaus Schwab has taught us that the “age of owning things” is so passe, and we know that this obsolete relic of capitalism isn’t compatible in our new age of global peace and brotherhood.
Ownership of “things” just makes us selfish and forget about the real purpose of life.. which is really about sacrifice. Establishing new supranational organizations to manage the levers of consumption and production according to evidence-based standards and scientific realities of carrying capacity is the only remedy to the evils of populism and being ignorant to this reality doesn’t lessen the fact that boards of experts who are smarter than you say that it is so.
According to the WEF’s Great Reset website global CO2 output collapsed by over 7% during the 12 months of global COVID-19 shutdowns… which means the COVID-19 is more of a blessing than many dim witted selfish nationalists who like owning things realize.
So what if the world population will contract under the shutdown of the world economy under COVID lockdowns? And so what if we lose our capacity to support industrial civilization through the imposition of global green energy grid?
Didn’t the late great Maurice Strong (who was WEF Executive Director and father of the Great Reset), ask the question in 1991:
So get ready for an exciting time in history, and hopefully China finally learns that the new world order is Unipolar – with a big green hug for all well behaved leaders who get rid of such silly ideas as “nationalism”, “industrial progress” or “ending poverty through development” which dangerous concepts like the Belt and Road Initiative threaten to unleash.
Most importantly, China has to really deprogram itself from her belief that Russia is a worthwhile partner in the 21st century.
Xi made a good decision to attend this month’s Great Reset conference and both he and Modi would do well to abandon dirty fossil fuels, their support of nuclear energy development or space mining in order to adapt their realities to the computer models which have been telling us how to hitch our destinies to a world of entropy and diminishing returns.
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"Aid And Comfort" To The Enemy: Speaker Pelosi Ramps Up Attacks On Republican Colleagues Amidst Calls For Expulsions
SATURDAY, JAN 23, 2021 - 15:15
Authored by Jonathan Turley,
Speaker Nancy Pelosi ramped up the attacks on members of her own house this week, accusing them of giving “aid and comfort” to those who want to destroy the nation.
The comments came after Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., denied a public accusation by Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., that she personally took rioters around the capitol for a tour before the attack on January 6th. Boebert pointed out that the “rioters” were her family members and she has never given such tours. Rather than encouraging colleagues to avoid baseless and inflammatory accusations pending review of what occurred on January 6th, Pelosi threw gasoline on the fire and accused her colleagues of giving “aid and comfort” to those who were trying to destroy the Constitution and the country. It is, in my view, another failure of leadership by the Speaker in her duties to the institution as a whole.
Like many, I support a commission to look into how these rioters gained such rapid entry into the Capitol Hill. However, Democratic members have claimed that Republican members were actual co-conspirators in the riot in supplying access to the building to plan out the attack. Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D., N.J.) went public with an extraordinary allegation against some of her colleagues that they conducted secret surveillance in a conspiracy with rioters at the Capitol. Sherrill stated in a Facebook live address to her constituents that she witnessed the surveillance personally. She said unidentified members of Congress “had groups coming through the Capitol” in “a reconnaissance for the next day.”
Sherill has still not supplied any of the names of her colleagues to who worked as inside co-conspirators. As noted earlier, this is an unambiguous allegation of criminal conduct against colleagues. Either members were conspiring in a crime or Sherill unfairly defamed her colleagues. Article I, Section 5, the Constitution says, “Each House (of Congress) may determine the Rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member.” The House may discipline members for violations of both unlawful conduct as well as any conduct which the House of Representatives finds has reflected discredit upon the institution. In re Chapman, 166 U.S. 661, 669-670 (1897). A House Select Committee in 1967 stated:
If members did conspire as alleged by Rep. Sherrill, they could be expelled for that criminal act. They would also face prosecution. It would be a betrayal of not just Congress but the country.
One would think that this rising level of acrimony would prompt a Speaker to calm her members and call for an investigation. Speaker Pelosi however proceeded to ramp up the rhetoric. She started out well by stating, “You have to have evidence for what has happened.” She then took a shot at Republicans and stated:
The language comes from the treason language in the Constitution Article III, Section 3 states:
In the context of alleged criminal conspiracy by members, the use of this language clearly suggested members were more than just politically at fault for their positions. It suggested that they were traitors.
These attacks are coming as some members are calling for the possible expulsion of members for challenging the electoral votes, an act expressly allowed under federal law and repeatedly done by Democrats in prior elections.
It is an example of the rage-filled politics that continues to build in our country, including calls for blacklists and punitive measures against anyone deemed supportive of Trump. As I noted in today’s column, it is a crisis of leadership in this country when we desperately need leaders who can unite us rather than capitalize on our divisions.
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Big Tech, Big Brother, & The End Of Free Speech
FRIDAY, JAN 22, 2021 - 23:00
Authored by Frank Miele via RealClearPolitics.com,
In George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” members of the Outer Party of Oceania engage in the Two Minutes Hate ritual against Emmanuel Goldstein, who is supposed to be the enemy of the people but may actually just be a fabricated symbol to distract the people from their real enemy — Big Brother.
In Nancy Pelosi’s “Twenty Twenty-One,” members of the Democratic Party engage in the Two Hours Hate against Donald Trump, who is supposed to be the enemy of the people, but may actually just be a fabricated symbol to distract the people from their real enemy — Big Tech.
Two hours of hate — er, debate — was held in the House of Representatives last Wednesday for the avowed purpose of removing a president of the United States. That’s all it took. Two hours. That should tell you everything you need to know about the state of democracy in our country.
More time is routinely spent on picking wallpaper. But let’s face it, most families wouldn’t trust Congress to pick out wallpaper for their living room, so why should we trust these self-appointed moral arbiters to pick our president?
Well, we don’t. Not all of us.
Rep. Doug LaMalfa, a Republican representative from California, put it plainly in his 90-second speech when he said the “second annual impeachment” of Donald Trump “isn’t really about actual words spoken at a rally. No, this is all about the unbridled hatred of this president [by Democrats]. You use any extreme language and any process to oppose the core of what he has really fought for. You hate him because he is pro-life, the strongest ever. You hate him for fighting for the freedom of religion. … You hate him for Israel. You hate him for defending our borders. … You hate him for putting America first.”
They certainly shouldn’t hate him — or impeach him — just for telling a rally crowd that “everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” But that’s what they did. In two hours.
And before they ever got around to impeaching Trump, they de-platformed him. With stunning suddenness, Trump went from the most powerful man in the world to a cornered, desperate fugitive. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google — they all came for him. Most importantly, they came for us. Everyone who sided with the president, everyone who agreed with the president about the questions of election fraud, we are all now guilty by association, and Big Tech has turned its sights on all of us.
“Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?”
Those were the words that terrified millions of Americans in the 1950s when Joe McCarthy and other senators tried to purge the United States of what they considered a subversive movement designed to overthrow the government.
In that case, of course, it was conservative senators — both Democrat and Republican — who were trying to expose what they called a communist conspiracy. In their zeal to protect the nation, they trampled on the civil liberties of individual Americans and tried to strip them of their jobs, their reputations and in some cases their very freedom.
What was the crime most of those Americans had committed? They had either attended a meeting of the Communist Party, donated money to the Communist Party or signed a petition on behalf of the Communist Party. In other words, they had exercised their First Amendment rights of speech and assembly. They had used their own minds and reached unpopular opinions. That was all it took for McCarthy to try to ruin their lives.
Apparently the American left never forgot what was done to them, and now that they have achieved absolute power, it looks like they want revenge.
In the lead-up to the impeachment vote, Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts put Trump defender Jim Jordan “on trial” for the new crime of having a dissenting view on the 2020 presidential election. The question McGovern barked at Jordan in a congressional hearing last week could be repeated in job interviews for years to come:
Jordan avoided a direct answer, but of course he and millions of other people don’t believe that Biden won fair and square. In a free country, they could say so, but in Pelosi’s “Twenty Twenty-One,” you say so at your own risk. To begin with, you can lose your Twitter account or your Facebook account, but who’s to say that you won’t lose your bank account next? China has a “social credit” system that deprives citizens of certain rights if their score falls below a certain level of acceptability — meaning if they don’t follow the party line in their thinking and their public persona. You might lose your job. You might be denied a ticket on a train or a plane. The only recourse is to do what the party tells you to do — even if it means accepting that 2+2=5.
Now, in modern America, we are precipitously close to duplicating the monolithic control of information that Orwell predicted in “Nineteen Eighty-Four” and that the Chinese Communist Party has perfected.
In the last two weeks, we have seen the power of Big Tech unleashed mercilessly. With the complicit assistance of Big Media, the Silicon Valley oligarchs not only neutered President Trump as a political leader by taking away his bully pulpit but also effectively crushed dissent by demanding that only social media companies that censor unpopular opinions can have a platform on the Internet. Bye-bye, Parler. You can also make a reasonable case that Democrats in Congress would never have impeached President Trump from public office so hastily were they not goaded into action by Twitter and Facebook taking the first step of banning him from public life.
In a sense, Big Tech has taken cyberbullying to its logical conclusion. When 13-year-olds are entrusted with cellphones and Snapchat accounts, they can use them to bring shame on innocent children and even destroy their lives. Often, this involves spreading false rumors about the person or discrediting them for something they espouse, like their religion, their political beliefs or their sexual identity.
Tell me how this is different from what Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have done to Donald Trump and, by extension, the more than 74 million people who voted for him. This group of post-pubescent cyberbullies in Silicon Valley doesn’t like Donald Trump. They feel justified in calling him names like white supremacist and Nazi and racist. They don’t care whether it hurts him or not. They don’t care whether it is true or not. They are strangely enlivened by what they perceive as their ability to hurt him, to weaken him. Like the mob that they have attempted to link the president to, these bullies act in mindless concert, emboldened by each other to see who can strike the deeper blow, who can make the victim hurt more.
And over what? Differences of opinion, for the most part. Strong border or no border? Mask or no mask? Globalism or Americanism? Carbon credits or fracking? Abortion or no abortion? And then the last straw — fair election or fraudulent election?
These should be legitimate subjects for debate in a free society. But not anymore. Big Tech has banned debate about government policy on the coronavirus, and any discussion of election fraud is treated as if it were a crime. But wait? It’s only a crime to question the government in a totalitarian system, like that in communist China or Orwell’s fictional Oceania, right? In America, we have the right and obligation to question our government, don’t we? Because, if we don’t have that right any longer, then what are they afraid of? What are they hiding?
Bottom line: At some point in some election, the allegations of election fraud have to be real. It can’t always just be the figment of some right-wing president’s imagination. And if we aren’t allowed to have free speech, then how do we fight back? If Big Tech and Big Government have their way, we don’t. Just keep your head down and your nose clean — and never ever question what you are told.
Remember, 2+2=5.
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The Despicables
FRIDAY, JAN 22, 2021 - 21:40
Authored by Eric Peters via EricPetersAutos.com,
One of the nuggets to be mined from the wholesale cancelling of politically unapproved speech by the Tech Oligarchs – soon to be empowered by government oligarchs, if the “kraken” doesn’t somehow prevent it – is how obvious their pathological dishonesty has become.
Amazon, Facebook and Twitter have asserted that, as private businesses, they have the right to decide with whom to do business – and not do business with. But do they feel the same way about the right of other private businesses to practice what they preach?
Only when it conforms with what they preach.
Consider the religious tenets of the Sickness Cult; specifically, the dogma that requires all to wear a Face Burqa within a privately owned business, even if the owner isn’t religious and isn’t interested in proselytizing to his customers, much less insisting they show respect for a religion he doesn’t subscribe to.
It is a private business, is it not?
Why then must this private business be forced to conduct its business according to the religious tenets of people who don’t own the business? Isn’t that a violation of the owner’s rights, just the same as the rights asserted by Amazon, Facebook and Twitter?
They claim no one is forced to use their services; that people are free to use other services more to their liking. Bully! But why doesn’t the same standard apply to other private businesses, the ones the people who run Amazon, Twitter and Facebook insist be closed to people who aren’t forced to go within?
People should be free to do business with whomever they wish, according to whatever terms are mutually agreeable to the parties. If one party does not find the terms agreeable then they are free to not do business with the other party.
This is the argument purveyed with great unction by Amazon, Facebook and Twitter justifying their decisions to stop doing business with Parler, for instance (in the case of Amazon) and cancelling the ability of people whose opinions – and facts – they dislike from their platforms, including the president of the United States (in the case of Twitter and Facebook).
Fine. Indeed.
They do have every right. It’s despicable – in the manner of “No Colored” signs on the door of businesses back in the ’50s – but they have every right as privately owned businesses to do business with whomever they wish, according to whatever terms they wish – so long as people are free to take their business elsewhere.
Aye, there’s the rub.
These Despicables want to enjoy the right to cancel, close – and decree – to others while at the same time denying the right of any other privately owned business to set its own terms and conditions.
The Despicables cannot stand the idea of freedom of religion when it comes to the wearing of the Face Burqa, for instance. The Holy Vestment must be worn everywhere, even within privately owned businesses and irrespective of a businesses’ private property rights.
Privately owned businesses are also unfree to unlock their doors and leave it up to customers to decide whether they wish to enter. It is not enough that no one is forced to enter these privately owned businesses. These privately owned businesses must be forced to not let them in – and if they are let in, force them to perform bizarre religious rituals including the wearing of a “mask.”
But this is nothing new. The Left specializes in situational ethics; in fungible etymology. Like Humpty Dumpty, a word means exactly what the Left says it does until the Left says it means something else.
This creates difficulties in the minds of rational, honest people – who take words at face value and base their arguments on moral principles that aren’t fungible.
Thus the stymying of many conservatives – and even libertarians – with regard to the Mandatory Burqua policies imposed by many businesses under pressure from the government to do so – and also with regard to calling out the Despicables who brazenly refuse to do business with those whose opinions – and facts – they do not like, claiming they have private property rights to do so. . . and then going on a rampage when a privately owned business uses the same argument to defend its private property rights.
The Left is defined not so much by its leftism but its psychotic doublethink. It is rancidly intolerant while touting itself as ethereally tolerant. It promotes racism in the name of combatting it.
And it thinks property rights only apply to correct privately owned businesses; i.e., to their businesses.
This has always been the case but now it’s out in the open – which may finally put an end to this business.
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Biden Admin Previews Fight Against ‘Serious Threat' of ‘Domestic Violent Extremism'
President Joe Biden requested that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence increase the assessment of domestic violent extremism.
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Biden Admin Previews Fight Against ‘Serious Threat’ of ‘Domestic Violent Extremism’
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President Joe Biden has asked the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to begin enhanced assessments of the threat posed by “domestic violent extremism,” according to the White House.
“The January 6th assault on the Capitol and the tragic deaths and destruction that occurred underscored what we have long known: The rise of domestic violent extremism is a serious and growing national security threat,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced at a press briefing Friday afternoon.
Psaki said that Biden had tasked the ODNI to request a “comprehensive threat assessment” of domestic violent extremism, including ways to strengthen government capabilities to monitor the threat.
“The Biden administration will confront this threat with the necessary recourses and resolve,” she said.
Psaki said that the Biden administration would prioritize “facts” and “objective rigorous analysis” claiming that the government could still maintain “respect for constitutionally protected free speech and political activities.” She stressed, however, that President Biden wanted to dramatically increase the level of intelligence and law enforcement directed at domestic violent extremism.
“We need to understand better its current extent and where they may be gaps to address so we can determine the best path forward,” she said.
Biden’s National Security Council, Psaki said, would ask three of his national security advisors, Joshua Geltzer, Liz Sherwood-Randall, and Russ Travers, to lead a policy review to properly “enhance and accelerate” the government threat of domestic violence.
“This considered NSC convened process will focus on addressing evolving threats, radicalization, the role of social media, opportunities to improve information sharing, operation responses, and more,” she concluded.
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‘We Don’t Have To Guess About Where This Goes’: Tulsi Gabbard Issues Warning About Domestic Terrorism Bill
Former Democratic Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard issued a stark warning Friday about the proposed bill to combat domestic terrorism.
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‘We Don’t Have To Guess About Where This Goes’: Tulsi Gabbard Issues Warning About Domestic Terrorism Bill
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Former Democratic Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard issued a stark warning Friday about the proposed bill to combat domestic terrorism.
Gabbard joined “Fox News Primetime” to discuss the legislation with host Brian Kilmeade, and she made it clear that she was concerned the legislation could be used to undermine civil liberties.
Kilmeade introduced Gabbard, who had just stepped away from her congressional seat two weeks earlier, and asked, “Are you surprised they’re pushing forward with this extra surveillance on would-be domestic terror?”
“It’s so dangerous as you guys have been talking about, this is an issue that all Democrats, Republicans, independents, Libertarians should be extremely concerned about, especially because we don’t have to guess about where this goes or how this ends,” Gabbard began, saying that former CIA Director John Brennan was already making comments that worried her.
“When you have people like former CIA Director John Brennan openly talking about how he’s spoken with or heard from appointees and nominees in the Biden administration who are already starting to look across our country for these types of movements similar to the insurgencies they’ve seen overseas, that in his words, he says make up this unholy alliance of religious extremists, racists, bigots, he lists a few others and at the end, even libertarians.”
Gabbard said that the real concern was how officials defines the characteristics they were searching for in potential threats.
“What characteristics are we looking for as we are building this profile of a potential extremist, what are we talking about? Religious extremists, are we talking about Christians, evangelical Christians, what is a religious extremist? Is it somebody who is pro-life? Where do you take this?” Gabbard asked.
The logical conclusion, she said, was “a very dangerous undermining of our civil liberties, our freedoms in our Constitution, and a targeting of almost half of the country.”
“You start looking at obviously, have to be a white person, obviously likely male, libertarians, anyone who loves freedom, liberty, maybe has an American flag outside their house, or people who, you know, attended a Trump rally,” Gabbard said.
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Democrats Move to Ban Trump Supporters From Joining the Military and Holding Federal Jobs - Big League Politics
They're not stopping with the private sector.
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Democrats Move to Ban Trump Supporters From Joining the Military and Holding Federal Jobs
They’re not stopping with the private sector.
Jan 23, 2021
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Jordan Epperson
As conservatives and members of the MAGA Movement in general continue to be ostracized by the mainstream media and establishment politicians for the events that unfolded on January 6th, members of congress are moving to further compromise the lives of those who weren’t even involved in the infamous “siege.”
While many Trump supporters have been quietly disposed of by their employers, this has largely been a policy of businesses to choose with whom they want to associate with as privately owned companies. However, according to Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL), supporters of Donald Trump should be barred from the public sector as well.
Murphy, who is a member of the House Armed Services Committee, has recently proposed a bill that would prevent members of the ‘Stop the Steal’ movement along with subscribers to ‘QAnon’ from being able to obtain security clearances. Security clearances are a necessity for Americans who wish to join the US Military and also a requirement to obtain a number of federal jobs.
This bill would essentially bar any American that has rallied in support of President Trump post-election or publicly voiced concern about election fraud from being able to hold a job in the Armed Forces or any federal law enforcement agency.
According to an article by the Daily Beast:
The bill inherently targets Trump supporters and anyone questioning the fraudulent results of the 2020 election or just the government in general. Murphy, a vocal supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement, has yet to propose any legislation targeting members of ANTIFA or BLM for their largely unpopular and destructive “Summer of Love” which took the lives of many and resulted in billions of dollars worth of damage.
Similarly, we could also see Stalin-style ideological purges of the US Military under the new Biden Administration and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
Several Democratic Senators, including Dianne Feinstein and Richard Blumenthal, joined together to write a letter to the Department of Defense requesting that a military-wide investigation be carried out through the ranks. The Senators believe the military to be a hub for “white supremacists” and “right wing extremists.”
The letter also requests that the DoD do more to prevent service members from subscribing to conspiracy theories or extremist ideology as a whole. While extremism and white supremacy clearly don’t have a place in the military and haven’t for sometime now, it’s well known that many in the federal government already consider that simply holding conservative values or supporting Donald Trump qualifies as white supremacy. Time will only tell if the requests in this letter are literal or just an attempt to further displace the millions of Americans that voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020.
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Biden's Culture War Aggression
He may have needlessly crippled his chances for lowering the temperature already.
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Biden's Culture War Aggression
He may have needlessly crippled his chances for lowering the temperature already.
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U.S. President Joe Biden prepares to sign a series of executive orders at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office just hours after his inauguration on January 20, 2021. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Chris Wallace of Fox News called Joe Biden’s Inaugural address the best he had ever heard. John Heilemann almost likened it to Lincoln’s Second Inaugural. It wasn’t, of course. But in celebrating this country’s liberation from a uniquely delusional, malevolent sociopath in the White House, and his violent mobs, they may be forgiven for a little hyperbole. And Joe Biden’s speech, the most important he has given in his life, was definitely a good speech. It did what it had to do. It wasn’t “some weird shit” as George W. Bush is reported to have said about Trump’s. But equally, it wasn’t fresh or eye-opening; it had none of Obama’s rhetorical genius; or Reagan’s. There is not a line in it that we will be able to remember for very long.
But it matched the occasion: it was conventional, banal even, and anodyne. And how much we’ve missed banality! Biden boldly asked us to be against “anger, resentment, hatred, extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness and hopelessness,” and to reaffirm the “history, faith and reason” that provides unity. Sure. Okay. At that level of pabulum, who indeed could differ? And a nation united in pabulum is better than one divided into two tribal camps waging an “uncivil war” against each other about everything.
And if Biden sticks to this kind of common ground, it will serve him well. He is lucky, in many ways, to succeed Trump. Any normal inauguration would feel transcendent after the sack of the capitol. The Covid19 pandemic is cresting as the economy keeps sinking — all of which can easily be blamed on Trump. But, looking forward, vaccinations are finally gaining momentum and the spurt of economic growth this summer and fall is likely to be any president’s dream. The psychological effects of surviving a plague year also tend to be extremely positive, if history tells us anything. People are also exhausted from the melodrama and psychological abuse the last guy put us through. In politics, timing is everything. And Biden has it.
If Biden’s team meaningfully accelerates the pace of vaccination, he will be rewarded handily, as he should be. (He’s already lowering expectations, to maximize any political pay-off.) If he’s capable of passing an economic stimulus that can mitigate some of the extreme social and economic inequality this teetering republic labors under, rescue and grow the economy and help innovate and expand non-carbon energy sources, ditto. These are clear, measurable tasks that most non-ideologues can heartily support. So too would be a fuller extension of universal access to healthcare, via an Obamacare public option, if they can squeak that through the evenly divided Senate.
These are sane, sensible, center-left policies with majority support. He should make his explanations of these policies simple and clear. If he wins some of these battles this year, he would move the country lastingly leftward. Stick to them, and the politics takes care of itself.
But Joe Biden has also shown this week that his other ambitions are much more radical. On immigration, he is way to Obama’s left, proposing a mass amnesty of millions of illegal immigrants, a complete moratorium on deportations, and immediate revocation of the bogus emergency order that allowed Trump to bypass Congress and spend money building his wall. Fine, I guess. But without very significant addition of border controls as a deterrent, this sends a signal to tens of millions in Central to South America to get here as soon as possible.
Biden could find, very quickly, that the “unity” he preaches will not survive such an effectively open-borders policy, or another huge crisis at the border. He is doubling down on the very policies that made a Trump presidency possible. In every major democracy, mass immigration has empowered the far right. Instead of easing white panic about changing demographics, Biden just intensified it.
Biden has also signaled (and by executive order, has already launched) a very sharp departure from liberalism in his approach to civil rights. The vast majority of Americans support laws that protect minorities from discrimination, so that every American can have equality of opportunity, without their own talents being held back by prejudice. But Biden’s speech and executive orders come from a very different place. They explicitly replace the idea of equality in favor of what anti-liberal critical theorists call “equity.” They junk equality of opportunity in favor of equality of outcomes. Most people won’t notice that this new concept has been introduced — equity, equality, it all sounds the same — but they’ll soon find out the difference.
In critical theory, as James Lindsay explains, “‘equality’ means that citizen A and citizen B are treated equally, while ‘equity’ means adjusting shares in order to make citizen A and B equal.” Here’s how Biden defines “equity”: “the consistent and systematic fair, just, and impartial treatment of all individuals, including individuals who belong to underserved communities that have been denied such treatment, such as Black, Latino, and Indigenous and Native American persons, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and other persons of color; members of religious minorities; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) persons; persons with disabilities; persons who live in rural areas; and persons otherwise adversely affected by persistent poverty or inequality.”
In less tortured English, equity means giving the the named identity groups a specific advantage in treatment by the federal government over other groups — in order to make up for historic injustice and “systemic” oppression. Without “equity”, the argument runs, there can be no real “equality of opportunity.” Equity therefore comes first. Until equity is reached, equality is postponed — perhaps for ever.
Helping level up regions and populations that have experienced greater neglect or discrimination in the past is a good thing. But you could achieve this if you simply focused on relieving poverty in the relevant communities. You could invest in schools, reform policing, target environmental clean-ups, grow the economy, increase federal attention to the neglected, and thereby help the needy in precisely these groups. But that would not reflect critical theory’s insistence that race and identity trump class, and that America itself is inherently, from top to bottom, a “white supremacist” country. Biden just endorsed that with gusto.
The paradox, of course, is that to achieve “equity” you have to first take away equality for individuals who were born in the wrong identity group. Equity means treating individuals unequally so that groups are equal.
How do we know when “equity” has been achieved? That’s a very good question.
It seems to me that the only definition of “equity” that works is that all groups are represented in federal policies in proportion to their share of the population, or more so — since equity can also require over-representation of these groups to make up for the past. The fact that an individual born, say, in the early 21st Century, has no personal or moral connection to slavery or segregation (au contraire), is irrelevant. She must pay for the past sins of her race.
Biden is therefore enforcing the Ibram X. Kendi view that “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.” And he’s enforcing it across the entire federal government and any institution the federal government funds. To show he’s serious, he’s appointed Susan Rice to enforce equity in a “whole-of-government” approach. America is no longer about individual freedom; it’s about identity group power, and its constant management by government.
Biden’s executive order on “LGBTQ+” is also taken directly from critical gender and queer theory. Take the trans question. Most decent people support laws that protect transgender people from discrimination — which, after the Bostock decision, is already the law of the land. But this is not enough for Biden. He takes the view that the law should go further and insist that trans women are absolutely indistinguishable from biological women — which erases any means of enforcing laws that defend biological women as a class. If your sex is merely what you say it is, without any reference to biological reality, then it is no longer sex at all. It’s gender, period. It’s socially constructed all the way down.
Most of the time, you can ignore this insanity and celebrate greater visibility and protection for trans people. But in a few areas, biology matters. Some traumatized women who have been abused by men do not want to be around biological males in prison or shelters, even if they identify as women. I think these women should be accommodated. There are also places where we segregate by sex — like showers, locker rooms — for reasons of privacy. I think that allowing naked biological men and boys to be in the same showers as naked biological women and girls is asking for trouble — especially among teens. But for Biden, this is non-negotiable, and all objections are a function of bigotry.
And in sports, the difference between the physiology of men and women makes a big difference. That’s the entire point of having separate male and female sports, in the first place. Sure, you can suppress or enhance hormones. But you will never overcome the inherited, permanent effects of estrogen and testosterone in childhood and adolescence. Male and female bodies are radically different, because without that difference, our entire species would not exist.
Replacing sex with gender threatens women’s sports for that simple reason.
For good measure, Biden also pledges to remove any protection for orthodox religious freedom and individual conscience in “LGBTQ+” areas in his proposed Equality Act, which repeals the relevant sections of Biden’s own Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and also makes sex indistinguishable from gender.
I wonder if Joe Biden even knows what critical theory is. But he doesn’t have to. It is the successor ideology to liberalism among elites, a now-mandatory ideology if you want to keep your job. But Biden’s emphatic backing of this illiberal, discriminatory project on his first day is relevant. He has decided to encourage “unity” by immediately pursuing policies that inflame Republicans and conservatives and normies more than any others.
And those policies are obviously unconstitutional. The federal government cannot actively discriminate on the basis of race, sex or group identity under the Constitution. It cannot strip women of their rights as a distinct biological class. It cannot void religious freedom for individuals. Biden’s woke rampage in the federal government won’t last, because it cannot last if our constitution means anything. So let the lawsuits commence as Biden alienates and inflames his moderate supporters and snubs practices that most Americans take as common sense.
I want Biden to succeed. I want Republicans to moderate. I want to lower the temperature. I want to emphasize those policies that really do bring us closer together, even though many may still freely dissent. Biden says he wants to as well. But none of that can or will happen if the president fuels the culture war this aggressively, this crudely, and this soon. You don’t get to unite the country by dividing it along these deep and inflammatory issues of identity. And you don’t achieve equality of opportunity by enforcing its antithesis.
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ARIZONA: Gosar Slams Establishment Republicans For Labeling #StopTheSteal Push For Election Integrity 'Sedition'
Gosar received thunderous applause while speaking at the State Committee of the Arizona Republican Party.
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ARIZONA: Gosar Slams Establishment Republicans For Labeling #StopTheSteal Push For Election Integrity ‘Sedition’
Gosar received thunderous applause while speaking at the State Committee of the Arizona Republican Party.
January 23, 2021
While speaking at the Statutory Meeting of the State Committee of the Arizona Republican Party, U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) defended the Stop the Steal movement and chided establishment Republicans and Democrats for attempting to erase 75 million Americans’ right to freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, as outlined in the First Amendment.
Entering the stage to Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White, And Blue”, Gosar began his speech by reading a “love letter” – hate mail – he received from Republican Andy Kinuset, a retired member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, which has repeatedly refused to abide by subpoenas from the Arizona Senate demanding they immediately allow a forensic audit in the county.
“Dear Congressman Gosar, as a recovering politician I have deliberately avoided engaging in dialog with those still in office, but your deplorable behavior over the last few days has compelled me, and I hope others, to condemn your acts and words which have incited violence and clearly resulted in the death of our fellow Americans, and the undermining of our Democratic institutions,” Gosar read aloud.
“You are an embarrassment to Arizona. For the good of the state and the Republican Party, you should apologize to the American people, resign, and accept punishment for your acts of sedition, the former Maricopa County official demanded.
“Signed, sincerely, Andy Kunasek, former Maricopa County Supervisor, district 3,” Gosar read, inciting a chorus of boos from the crowd.
“Let’s get our facts straight: Sedition is actively advocating for the overthrow of the government by force,” said Gosar. He then joked, “I believe you know, some of my colleagues and I wanted to make sure we had a fair and clean election.”
“In a divided country, we wanted to lower the temperature instead of raising it. And what a beautiful way that would have been, to have transparency in an election.”
Gosar then noted the series of questions that remain unanswered about the suspect Dominion Voting Systems, which have been accused of allowing elections to be stolen and receiving its original funding from Venezuelan socialists.
“Particularly when it comes to mind that a machine that was used, a series of machines were used in Maricopa County, used in Nevada, Used in Georgia, used in Michigan and in Wisconsin, was deemed 100% corruptable,” said Gosar. “Now that’s not me, that was a subcommittee on homeland security in the US Senate, 2019, talking about election security.”
“This is the same machine that was denied, uncertified three times in Texas for not being able to do its job,” he added.
“This is the same machine that, in North Carolina, when they did a proposal, when they asked who their investors were and if there were foreign countries involved, they pulled back,” he added.
Gosar then directed his attention to Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs a seasoned Democrat who smeared millions of Trump supporters as racists, and declared that the purpose of her job was to “get Democrats elected.”
“Then you have a Secretary of State in this state who has made two outstanding comments,” said Gosar. “She called all of us a bunch of Nazis. She also called us, and said that she was voted in to get Democrats elected. That’s hardly an air of support.”
Gosar noted that Maricopa County initially seemed willing to allow a forensic audit of some ballots. They initially offered 100 ballots, adjudicated with Dominion machines. Americans were shocked to learn there was a 3% error rate in Joe Biden’s favor. This would have far exceeded the number of votes President Donald Trump needed to carry the state.
“What’s interesting about those two ballots is how they were changed: Both of those ballots voted for Trump. One of those ballots was taken from Trump and given to Biden. The second one they dropped, didn’t even count Trump’s ballot,” said Gosar. “Then they decide to go to 2500, and they don’t even complete it, and they refused to go any further. You’d think there’d be a little suspicion?”
Gosar then returned to the accusation levied against him by former Maricopa County Supervisor Kunasek.
“I spoke at a number of Stop the Steal rallies, I advertised it, but we were all about peaceful exchange: First Amendment to assemble, to petition your government, to give your voice, your religion, whatever you want to do. They were nonviolent,” said Gosar. “We advocated peaceful, we sang hymns, we said prayers, we recited the Constitution, we even sang YMCA,” he added, causing the crowd to laugh and cheer.
“There was nothing about it that was violent. I have, from the very beginning and the very end, not condoned violence,” said Gosar, before adding “Here is my speech on the floor when we actually were petitioning lawfully under the Electoral Count act of 1887.”
Gosar then read his speech before the U.S House, that asked both House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence to pause the January 6 electoral vote count while Arizona investigates questionable activities that happened during the state’s 2020 election.
“My ask to the Vice President is simple: Do not count these electors until and unless the Secretary of State allows a forensic audit o the election indecently, a request she has denied repeatedly.”
“In Arizona, as my attachments make clear, mail-in ballots were altered on the first day of counting,” said Gosar. “Over 400,000 votes could have been altered, switched from Trump to Biden.”
“Until this is done, Madam Speaker, do not count this slate. You have received a letter from Arizona’s legislators stating its intent to review this issue on January 11. They would have done it sooner, but the governor did not call them into session.”
As he concluded his speech, he asked “So tell me, what do you find about that speech that is seditious? It doesn’t exist.”
“We are on a precipice that has never been seen before, maybe since the middle 1800s. We’re divided, surely we’re divided,” Gosar explained. “But that forensic audit would have lowered the tensions: That’s exactly why we wanted it. Peaceful exchange, that First Amendment, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion. Words don’t hurt, people do. Stay the course.”
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ARIZONA: Gosar Slams Establishment Republicans For Labeling #StopTheSteal Push For Election Integrity 'Sedition'
Gosar received thunderous applause while speaking at the State Committee of the Arizona Republican Party.
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ARIZONA: Gosar Slams Establishment Republicans For Labeling #StopTheSteal Push For Election Integrity ‘Sedition’
Gosar received thunderous applause while speaking at the State Committee of the Arizona Republican Party.
January 23, 2021
While speaking at the Statutory Meeting of the State Committee of the Arizona Republican Party, U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) defended the Stop the Steal movement and chided establishment Republicans and Democrats for attempting to erase 75 million Americans’ right to freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, as outlined in the First Amendment.
Entering the stage to Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White, And Blue”, Gosar began his speech by reading a “love letter” – hate mail – he received from Republican Andy Kinuset, a retired member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, which has repeatedly refused to abide by subpoenas from the Arizona Senate demanding they immediately allow a forensic audit in the county.
“Dear Congressman Gosar, as a recovering politician I have deliberately avoided engaging in dialog with those still in office, but your deplorable behavior over the last few days has compelled me, and I hope others, to condemn your acts and words which have incited violence and clearly resulted in the death of our fellow Americans, and the undermining of our Democratic institutions,” Gosar read aloud.
“You are an embarrassment to Arizona. For the good of the state and the Republican Party, you should apologize to the American people, resign, and accept punishment for your acts of sedition, the former Maricopa County official demanded.
“Signed, sincerely, Andy Kunasek, former Maricopa County Supervisor, district 3,” Gosar read, inciting a chorus of boos from the crowd.
“Let’s get our facts straight: Sedition is actively advocating for the overthrow of the government by force,” said Gosar. He then joked, “I believe you know, some of my colleagues and I wanted to make sure we had a fair and clean election.”
“In a divided country, we wanted to lower the temperature instead of raising it. And what a beautiful way that would have been, to have transparency in an election.”
Gosar then noted the series of questions that remain unanswered about the suspect Dominion Voting Systems, which have been accused of allowing elections to be stolen and receiving its original funding from Venezuelan socialists.
“Particularly when it comes to mind that a machine that was used, a series of machines were used in Maricopa County, used in Nevada, Used in Georgia, used in Michigan and in Wisconsin, was deemed 100% corruptable,” said Gosar. “Now that’s not me, that was a subcommittee on homeland security in the US Senate, 2019, talking about election security.”
“This is the same machine that was denied, uncertified three times in Texas for not being able to do its job,” he added.
“This is the same machine that, in North Carolina, when they did a proposal, when they asked who their investors were and if there were foreign countries involved, they pulled back,” he added.
Gosar then directed his attention to Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs a seasoned Democrat who smeared millions of Trump supporters as racists, and declared that the purpose of her job was to “get Democrats elected.”
“Then you have a Secretary of State in this state who has made two outstanding comments,” said Gosar. “She called all of us a bunch of Nazis. She also called us, and said that she was voted in to get Democrats elected. That’s hardly an air of support.”
Gosar noted that Maricopa County initially seemed willing to allow a forensic audit of some ballots. They initially offered 100 ballots, adjudicated with Dominion machines. Americans were shocked to learn there was a 3% error rate in Joe Biden’s favor. This would have far exceeded the number of votes President Donald Trump needed to carry the state.
“What’s interesting about those two ballots is how they were changed: Both of those ballots voted for Trump. One of those ballots was taken from Trump and given to Biden. The second one they dropped, didn’t even count Trump’s ballot,” said Gosar. “Then they decide to go to 2500, and they don’t even complete it, and they refused to go any further. You’d think there’d be a little suspicion?”
Gosar then returned to the accusation levied against him by former Maricopa County Supervisor Kunasek.
“I spoke at a number of Stop the Steal rallies, I advertised it, but we were all about peaceful exchange: First Amendment to assemble, to petition your government, to give your voice, your religion, whatever you want to do. They were nonviolent,” said Gosar. “We advocated peaceful, we sang hymns, we said prayers, we recited the Constitution, we even sang YMCA,” he added, causing the crowd to laugh and cheer.
“There was nothing about it that was violent. I have, from the very beginning and the very end, not condoned violence,” said Gosar, before adding “Here is my speech on the floor when we actually were petitioning lawfully under the Electoral Count act of 1887.”
Gosar then read his speech before the U.S House, that asked both House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence to pause the January 6 electoral vote count while Arizona investigates questionable activities that happened during the state’s 2020 election.
“My ask to the Vice President is simple: Do not count these electors until and unless the Secretary of State allows a forensic audit o the election indecently, a request she has denied repeatedly.”
“In Arizona, as my attachments make clear, mail-in ballots were altered on the first day of counting,” said Gosar. “Over 400,000 votes could have been altered, switched from Trump to Biden.”
“Until this is done, Madam Speaker, do not count this slate. You have received a letter from Arizona’s legislators stating its intent to review this issue on January 11. They would have done it sooner, but the governor did not call them into session.”
As he concluded his speech, he asked “So tell me, what do you find about that speech that is seditious? It doesn’t exist.”
“We are on a precipice that has never been seen before, maybe since the middle 1800s. We’re divided, surely we’re divided,” Gosar explained. “But that forensic audit would have lowered the tensions: That’s exactly why we wanted it. Peaceful exchange, that First Amendment, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion. Words don’t hurt, people do. Stay the course.”
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Democrats Have Released a Roadmap to One-Party Rule
The Democrats appear intent on instituting one-party rule in the United States. They’re trying to use the U.S. Capitol riots as an excuse to criminalize dissent and banish conservative voices from the public sphere, and at the same time they’re hoping to use their temporary, razor-thin majority ...
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Democrats Have Released a Roadmap to One-Party Rule
JANUARY 23, 2021
The Democrats appear intent on instituting one-party rule in the United States.
They’re trying to use the U.S. Capitol riots as an excuse to criminalize dissent and banish conservative voices from the public sphere, and at the same time they’re hoping to use their temporary, razor-thin majority in Congress to rewrite the rules governing our elections in a way designed to keep the Democratic Party entrenched in power for decades to come.
In the House, Democrats have revived sweeping election reform legislation that died in the Senate during the previous session, perhaps hoping they can browbeat enough Republicans into going along with them. If that happens, the “Grand Old Party” of Abraham Lincoln might as well disband, because Republicans would never have any hope of regaining a congressional majority or controlling the White House under the rules that HR 1 would put in place.
Although the Constitution explicitly places state legislatures in charge of managing federal elections, HR 1 seeks to use the power of the purse to bludgeon the states into conforming to a centralized system pioneered in California and other deep-blue states. Congress can’t technically compel the states to change their voting laws, but seasoned politicians know that the states have become dependent on federal money to run their elections, and can’t afford to pick up the tab themselves.
To make matters worse, HR 1 declares that Congress possesses “ultimate supervisory power over Federal elections” — an extraordinary usurpation of governmental authority that the Founders specifically assigned to the states.
The 2020 election witnessed private interests dictating the manner in which the election was conducted in the nation’s urban cores. Mark Zuckerberg alone poured $419 million into this scheme.
The goal of centralizing power in the hands of the federal government has long been at the heart of liberal politics, and this legislation demonstrates why.
HR 1 would codify the very practices — many of them currently illegal in most states — that created widespread irregularities in the 2020 elections and contributed greatly to public mistrust of the electoral process. In 2020, state and local officials used the COVID-19 pandemic as justification to ignore or deliberately violate state election laws. If HR 1 is enacted, they won’t need any such excuse in 2022 because the states will have no choice but to implement policies such as legalized ballot harvesting, early voting, and universal mail-in voting, as well as repeal of voter ID laws, signature-matching laws, and other ballot security measures.
For example, HR 1 would allow ballot harvesting on steroids. Voters would — for the first time — have the ability to print out their ballots at home, creating a gaping security hole that could easily be exploited by either domestic or foreign interests. The legislation also allows third parties to collect ballots from an unlimited number of absentee voters and submit them through ballot drop boxes, dramatically increasing the risk that vulnerable Americans could be bullied, bribed, or blackmailed for their votes without the protection of election workers.
Under the rules outlined in HR 1, election observers wouldn’t even be able to challenge the legitimacy of ballots without written documentation, making it virtually impossible to document or detect election irregularities.
Nothing in this legislation could plausibly be interpreted as a means of restoring public confidence in our elections — but the reforms establish a clear roadmap to one-party rule. This is especially so when you consider the new proposals for the war on “domestic terror” aimed directly at the free expression of American citizens.
We can only hope that principled Republicans and Democrats will reject this direct assault on American democracy and individual freedom, and resist the institutionalists in both parties who believe the American people need them to protect us from ourselves.
The way to create one-party rule is to control information and control the way a nation selects its leaders. The political left has joined with Big Tech and government careerists in aggressively trying to do both.
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The Overreach Against the Trump Movement Will Backfire | The Red Elephants
Following the events in the nation’s capital on January 6th, the media and the Democratic party surfaced in unison to condemn the people who stormed the capitol building. They called them insurrectionists, seditionists, and white nationalist terrorists. Less than 24 hours later, these labels...
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The Overreach Against the Trump Movement Will Backfire
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The Red Elephants
January 22, 2021
Following the events in the nation’s capital on January 6th, the media and the Democratic party surfaced in unison to condemn the people who stormed the capitol building. They called them insurrectionists, seditionists, and white nationalist terrorists.
Less than 24 hours later, these labels expanded to President Trump himself, and the hundreds of thousands of others who merely showed up to watch him speak.
Journalists and other verified accounts on Twitter, took to the platform to dox everyone and anyone that was a Trump supporter who merely attended the event. Even as they saw them in airports for their departing flights.
The unanimous condemnation then trickled down to the rest of the 74 million Americans who voted for President Trump.
Not only did President Trump get permanently banned from Twitter and basically every other platform that he was on, but millions of his supporters did also.
Political NGO’s and their activists started reaching out to all platforms that allowed Trump’s most prominent supporters to have a voice. Mainstream journalists wrote article after article about the people who were at the event, with pictures of them on the thumbnail image.
If they could not get them convicted by federal enforcement agencies, they instead destroyed their lives by printing stories that went viral with their faces on the front page.
This snapshot of the major reaction to the capitol siege was not because the media, big tech, or the Democratic party cares about specific actions by Trump supporters during the storming of the capitol building. They don’t care about the windows that were broken or even Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed Airforce veteran who was shot and killed by an unidentified capitol police officer.
If there is anything that we have learned from the months of Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots, they cheerlead demonstrations hundreds of times worse than those that occurred on January 6th.
Left-Wing riots rots during the summer of 2020 led to ATM’s being exploded, hundreds of small businesses being burned to the ground, dozens of deaths and assassination attempts of police, and the destruction of countless state capitol and federal buildings across the nation.
The media and the Democratic party called them fiery, but ‘mostly peaceful.’
The women’s march of 2017 ended with thousands of protesters storming past police lines and entering the DC capitol building, as well as other capitol buildings across the country.
They occupied the halls of the capitol, chanting and demonstrating, and then bragged on Twitter about how they overpowered police lines and stormed the building.
This was met with cheers from their peers and the mainstream media.
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The media, Democratic party, and the political NGO’s that are lashing out right now against Trump’s supporters, do not care about about the damages inside the capitol building or roughing up police. What they care about, is the complete destruction of the Trump movement by any means necessary. Their goal is the complete destruction of their political enemies by weaponizing every institution possible at the top of the American power structure.
This was proven on January 7th, a day after the capitol siege, when an ABC News political director told accidentally told the truth.
“The fact is that getting rid of Trump is the easy part. Cleaning up the movement he commands or getting rid of what he represents to so many Americans, is going to be something else,” said Rick Klein of ABC News.
Right now, the institutions at the top of the power structure of the American regime, which includes the media, big tech, mega corporations, and left-wing NGO’s, are attempting to do just that. This reaction is the empire striking back. It’s an attempted purge of the movement that President Trump created, and the destruction of what Trump represents.
It will be futile. President Trump created the biggest political movement in history, dwarfing the Reagan movement and the Tea Party by multiples. The Trump movement will never die. His supporters are resilient, and each one of them are far more pissed than all the most vocal Tea Partiers combined.
This is what they fear. A powerful movement that is not approved by the regime.
The Media Overreach
Trust in traditional media has declined to an all-time low. Faith in society’s institutions, especially government and the media, has been part of what holds society together.
If faith in our institutions is lost, the power of the regime to control the outcome is lost as well.
According to data from Edelman’s annual trust barometer, for the first time is history, fewer than half of all Americans have trust in the media. Trust in social media, the backup plan if the legacy media falls, has hit an all-time low of 27%.
- 56% of Americans agree with the statement that “Journalists and reporters are purposely trying to mislead people by saying things they know are false or gross exaggerations.”
- 58% think that “most news organizations are more concerned with supporting an ideology or political position than with informing the public.”
- When Edelman re-polled Americans after the election, the figures had deteriorated even further, with 57% of Democrats trusting the media and only 18% of Republicans.
Imagine what the trust level in traditional media is going to look like when Americans are polled after they have had time to absorb the hypocritical coverage of the media regarding the capitol siege.
The Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots are still fresh in the minds of Americans. In fact, hundreds of violent riots at state capitol buildings, federal buildings, and even at the Democratic Party headquarters happened directly after the inauguration of President Joe Biden.
During his presidency, Trump co-opted the term “Fake News,” and used it against the media every chance that he could. Millions of his supporters took to their social media platforms to expose the lies and blatant bias of the mainstream media. Trump and the movement he created exposed the media for what they are more than ever before. Only President Trump could have accomplished such a task.
The blatantly biased and sensationalized news coverage of media regarding the events on January 6th, will only fast-track the decline in trust of the media that President Trump expedited.
Additionally, without Trump the mainstream legacy media as we know is all but dead. Directly after the inauguration of President Joe Biden, CNN announced they would be ending their contracts with American airports, which represent a good portion of the outlet’s viewers.
Whether Brian Stelter would like to admit it or not, Trump was the legacy media’s last gasp.
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Social Media Overreach
On January 7th, a day after the capitol demonstration, Twitter suspended President Trump’s account permanently. This is an action that Twitter warned was coming for months leading up to the election, when they said that Trump’s special protections would go away if he lost the election.
The event on January 6th gave them an opportunity to use as a pretext for the permanent suspension of Trump’s account, which they desired to take action on for quite some time.
Twitter issued a statement after the ban, claiming that it was not what Trump said on Twitter that led to his permanent suspension, it was what some might interpret from what he said.
The reason why Twitter finally took this action had nothing to do with the actions of Trump’s supporters, or even as Twitter admitted, what Trump himself said on the platform. Twitter’s goal was to pull the plug on Trump’s most effective and favorite line of communication.
They understand this is war, and in war if you can cut the lines of communication of your enemy. you do it.
In June of 2019, the head of Responsible Innovation at Google, Jen Gennai during an undercover video, talked about what tech companies can do to prevent ‘the next Trump situation.’
‘We’re also training our algorithms, like, if 2016 happened again, would we have, would the outcome be different?’ she asked in the video.
By cutting the head off the snake, they could cut the line of communication between the man they fear and the movement they fear even more. This has been the intention of the top three social media companies since the 2016 election, and that especially became true following the 2020 election.
Just as he fast-tracked the decline in faith in one institution, the media; Trump with the help of his tens of millions of loyal supporters were successful in destroying faith in another institution, the American electoral process.
By permanently suspending President Trump from Twitter, and just about every other social media platform he was on, this also exacerbated the decline in trust Americans have in social media.
Confidence in American institutions is what academics say is the ‘glue that holds society together.’ If Americans lose confidence in the institutions, especially the media, political outcomes become unpredictable. The system starts to ‘unrig’ itself.
Even faith in the judicial institution is falling. The courts will experience an even steeper decline in confidence as Americans see the hypocrisy of the courts. Future lawsuits filed against executive orders from the Biden administration, surely will not receive the same reaction from the courts that Trump executive orders experienced. Sudden deference to the executive from the courts is certain.
When President Trump said “the system was rigged, and we are going to change it,” he meant it. And it seems like he was successful in exponentially expediting this process without needing the legislative branch at all.
After President Trump and many of his supporters were purged from several of the most popular social media platforms, millions of people started flocking to alternatives. Parler, an alternative social media platform started by computer scientist John Matze, was the most mainstream and well known.
Because of the mass exodus to Parler, big tech and the media felt that this reaction could be a viable threat to the control they had over the flow of information. Because of the potential drastic political and financial consequences this could have on the system, like clockwork the media and social media began a coordinated effort to take these platforms down.
Hundreds of hit pieces from every major mainstream media outlet hit the digital presses. These hit pieces were then used by individual journalists and NGO activists to put pressure on the corporations that allow these alternative social media platforms to exist.
Parler was removed from the Apple app store and Google play store. Following the removal of their app, Parler’s webhosting was taken away by Amazon.
The regime received instantaneous results. Because of this, they decided to push even further using January 6th as a pretext. Coordinated attack campaigns were launched by the regime to take down other social media platforms.
Telegram, an alternative to Facebook’s WhatsApp but allows public channels was the next target. Because Telegram would not censor most of the figures they wanted terminated, Apple was pressured again. A prominent left-wing Washington nonprofit group sued Apple in federal court on January 15th, demanding that it remove Telegram from its app store for failing to crack down.
The suit was a pressure tactic to get Apple to act against Telegram as it already has against Parler, which the Washington Post calls “a social media site that swelled with calls for violence and insurrection ahead of the Capitol siege.”
The source they use to back this claim comes from more than flimsy ‘research’ from another institution the regime has taken control of and weaponized, academia.
Filing the suit was the Coalition for a Safer Web. A similar lawsuit is planned against Google, according to the coalition’s lawyer, Keith Altman.
“Telegram stands out by itself as the ‘super-spreader’ of hate speech, even compared to Parler,” Marc Ginsberg, the coalition’s president said in an interview.
Ginsberg, who is Jewish, claims in the lawsuit that Telegram’s ‘hateful’ content puts him at risk, and that his ownership of an iPhone gives him standing to sue Apple.
The coordinated attacks on Telegram, Parler, DLive, and others are just a snapshot of the broader social media overreach that started on January 6th. Additionally, payments processors were targeted and Trump himself was banned from banks.
Just like the targeting of individuals by journalists and the media, the digital crackdown represents a counterassault against a movement that is a real threat to the system. This is an overreach though, and overreach always comes with unintended consequences.
As much as Republican politicians adored talking about social media censorship, even going so far as grilling tech CEO’s in countless theatrical hearings, no one took this issue seriously until recently. Because the digital crackdown was so severe, this has caught the attention of everyone.
If there is going to be a free market solution to social media censorship, it is more likely to surface now more than ever before.
The crackdown has also caught the attention of state legislators.
In states like Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas, and North Dakota; state legislators have proposed laws aimed at striking back at big tech companies. One bill suggests fining social media companies for taking down posts or accounts for ‘hate speech.’ Another bill suggests allowing users to sue social media companies for taking down their accounts or posts.
The recent swift and severe censorship has also led to millions of people migrating to two main platforms; Gab and Telegram. For video content, many created Bitchute accounts. Platforms like Gab and Telegram were called ‘neo-Nazi’ platforms just months ago. Now, prominent conservatives voices and even elected Republicans are flocking to Gab.
Rhetorical Overreach
Today more than ever before, average Trump supporters are being labeled ‘insurrectionists’ or ‘seditionists.’ It also seems that ‘white domestic terrorists’ is a very popular term for them suddenly as well. Year after year labels like these encompassed more and more conservative pundits. After January 6th, essentially all Trump supporters were being characterized as such.
This decision will lead to the weakening of the effectiveness of these labels, disarming one of the regimes most powerful tactics. This will also lead to more mainstream conservatives becoming less reluctant than they otherwise would be, to start looking into figureheads who were previously fringe. Because of this obvious overreach, they will be absorbed into the mainstream right under a big tent movement.
Due to the charismatic nature of more reactionary commentators like Vincent James or Nick Fuentes, this will inevitably drive many millions more conservatives further to the reactionary right. Millions of Trump’s supporters are disenfranchised and feel that they have no representation in government. The movement Trump built will eventually transform into a more right-wing version, even more capable of challenging the system and its institutions.
The Tea Party was founded in 2009, but the strong rise of the Tea Party was a reaction to the Obama administration’s weaponized institutions. In April of 2017, hundreds of new documents were released containing admissions by IRS officials about the targeting of conservative organizations.
Beginning in March 2010, groups with names containing the words “Tea Party” or “patriot” were singled out for greater IRS scrutiny. Later, in an attempt to change from overtly partisan to more general criteria, the IRS shifted to targeting organizations with the goal of “teaching about the Constitution.”
Conservative groups were raided for documents, investigated, and audited. In July of 2010, True the Vote, a Houston-based conservative grassroots organization, applied for IRS tax-exempt status. In the following months, the group’s founder, Catherine Engelbrecht, endured six FBI domestic terrorism inquiries, investigations by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Texas environmental quality officials, as well as multiple IRS audits and five IRS requests for additional information about the organization.
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This is just a snapshot of the targeting by Obama’s weaponized institutions during a time when America was in economic crisis, and the internet was far less advanced.
Today, America’s institutions are more powerful than ever before. Big tech and billion-dollar corporations have more power than the FBI, IRS, and the ATF combined. In fact, big tech alone has more political power than the entire federal government.
Left-wing political NGO’s are more in quantity and have more power than at any time in the history of the country. The rise of the internet allows for individual journalists, and everyday citizens to use these weaponized institutions to destroy their political enemies, and the lives of their family members.
The Pendulum Swing
If the rise of the Tea Party, and the Presidency of Trump was a reaction to the Obama administration, imagine what will be the reaction to a Biden administration; which has already shown it has more teeth.
With every institution on his side ready to be weaponized, some more powerful than ever before; what Americans experienced under the Obama administration will feel like a cakewalk.
With Kamala Harris as VP, gun rights organizations dying out, and the anti-gun allies Biden has already placed around him; the threat to the second amendment will be more real than ever before.
With coronavirus lockdowns, millions of pending evictions, the coming end to fracking, and certain new wars in the middle east; Biden will preside over a down economy and a nation at war once again.
Regardless of how hard they try, the movement Trump created will never die, it will only go stronger awaiting to be activated. If the Regime thought that the Tea Party and then Trump was a right-wing reaction to Obama, they haven’t seen nothing yet.
Social Media Overreach
On January 7th, a day after the capitol demonstration, Twitter suspended President Trump’s account permanently. This is an action that Twitter warned was coming for months leading up to the election, when they said that Trump’s special protections would go away if he lost the election.
The event on January 6th gave them an opportunity to use as a pretext for the permanent suspension of Trump’s account, which they desired to take action on for quite some time.
Twitter issued a statement after the ban, claiming that it was not what Trump said on Twitter that led to his permanent suspension, it was what some might interpret from what he said.
The reason why Twitter finally took this action had nothing to do with the actions of Trump’s supporters, or even as Twitter admitted, what Trump himself said on the platform. Twitter’s goal was to pull the plug on Trump’s most effective and favorite line of communication.
They understand this is war, and in war if you can cut the lines of communication of your enemy. you do it.
In June of 2019, the head of Responsible Innovation at Google, Jen Gennai during an undercover video, talked about what tech companies can do to prevent ‘the next Trump situation.’
‘We’re also training our algorithms, like, if 2016 happened again, would we have, would the outcome be different?’ she asked in the video.
By cutting the head off the snake, they could cut the line of communication between the man they fear and the movement they fear even more. This has been the intention of the top three social media companies since the 2016 election, and that especially became true following the 2020 election.
Just as he fast-tracked the decline in faith in one institution, the media; Trump with the help of his tens of millions of loyal supporters were successful in destroying faith in another institution, the American electoral process.
By permanently suspending President Trump from Twitter, and just about every other social media platform he was on, this also exacerbated the decline in trust Americans have in social media.
Confidence in American institutions is what academics say is the ‘glue that holds society together.’ If Americans lose confidence in the institutions, especially the media, political outcomes become unpredictable. The system starts to ‘unrig’ itself.
Even faith in the judicial institution is falling. The courts will experience an even steeper decline in confidence as Americans see the hypocrisy of the courts. Future lawsuits filed against executive orders from the Biden administration, surely will not receive the same reaction from the courts that Trump executive orders experienced. Sudden deference to the executive from the courts is certain.
When President Trump said “the system was rigged, and we are going to change it,” he meant it. And it seems like he was successful in exponentially expediting this process without needing the legislative branch at all.
After President Trump and many of his supporters were purged from several of the most popular social media platforms, millions of people started flocking to alternatives. Parler, an alternative social media platform started by computer scientist John Matze, was the most mainstream and well known.
Because of the mass exodus to Parler, big tech and the media felt that this reaction could be a viable threat to the control they had over the flow of information. Because of the potential drastic political and financial consequences this could have on the system, like clockwork the media and social media began a coordinated effort to take these platforms down.
Hundreds of hit pieces from every major mainstream media outlet hit the digital presses. These hit pieces were then used by individual journalists and NGO activists to put pressure on the corporations that allow these alternative social media platforms to exist.
Parler was removed from the Apple app store and Google play store. Following the removal of their app, Parler’s webhosting was taken away by Amazon.
The regime received instantaneous results. Because of this, they decided to push even further using January 6th as a pretext. Coordinated attack campaigns were launched by the regime to take down other social media platforms.
Telegram, an alternative to Facebook’s WhatsApp but allows public channels was the next target. Because Telegram would not censor most of the figures they wanted terminated, Apple was pressured again. A prominent left-wing Washington nonprofit group sued Apple in federal court on January 15th, demanding that it remove Telegram from its app store for failing to crack down.
The suit was a pressure tactic to get Apple to act against Telegram as it already has against Parler, which the Washington Post calls “a social media site that swelled with calls for violence and insurrection ahead of the Capitol siege.”
The source they use to back this claim comes from more than flimsy ‘research’ from another institution the regime has taken control of and weaponized, academia.
Filing the suit was the Coalition for a Safer Web. A similar lawsuit is planned against Google, according to the coalition’s lawyer, Keith Altman.
“Telegram stands out by itself as the ‘super-spreader’ of hate speech, even compared to Parler,” Marc Ginsberg, the coalition’s president said in an interview.
Ginsberg, who is Jewish, claims in the lawsuit that Telegram’s ‘hateful’ content puts him at risk, and that his ownership of an iPhone gives him standing to sue Apple.
The coordinated attacks on Telegram, Parler, DLive, and others are just a snapshot of the broader social media overreach that started on January 6th. Additionally, payments processors were targeted and Trump himself was banned from banks.
Just like the targeting of individuals by journalists and the media, the digital crackdown represents a counterassault against a movement that is a real threat to the system. This is an overreach though, and overreach always comes with unintended consequences.
Because the President of the United States himself was purged from twitter, and millions of his supporter suffered the same fate, a major spotlight was shone on the issue.
As much as Republican politicians adored talking about social media censorship, even going so far as grilling tech CEO’s in countless theatrical hearings, no one took this issue seriously until recently. Because the digital crackdown was so severe, this has caught the attention of everyone.
If there is going to be a free market solution to social media censorship, it is more likely to surface now more than ever before.
The crackdown has also caught the attention of state legislators.
In states like Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas, and North Dakota; state legislators have proposed laws aimed at striking back at big tech companies. One bill suggests fining social media companies for taking down posts or accounts for ‘hate speech.’ Another bill suggests allowing users to sue social media companies for taking down their accounts or posts.
The recent swift and severe censorship has also led to millions of people migrating to two main platforms; Gab and Telegram. For video content, many created Bitchute accounts. Platforms like Gab and Telegram were called ‘neo-Nazi’ platforms just months ago. Now, prominent conservatives voices and even elected Republicans are flocking to Gab.
The counterassault by the regime has pushed conservatives in America further into a corner in reality and digitally. Conservatives are now more condensed online than ever before. Mainstream conservatives are now digital neighbors with people further to the right, and closer than ever before.
Rhetorical Overreach
Today more than ever before, average Trump supporters are being labeled ‘insurrectionists’ or ‘seditionists.’ It also seems that ‘white domestic terrorists’ is a very popular term for them suddenly as well. Year after year labels like these encompassed more and more conservative pundits. After January 6th, essentially all Trump supporters were being characterized as such.
This decision will lead to the weakening of the effectiveness of these labels, disarming one of the regimes most powerful tactics. This will also lead to more mainstream conservatives becoming less reluctant than they otherwise would be, to start looking into figureheads who were previously fringe. Because of this obvious overreach, they will be absorbed into the mainstream right under a big tent movement.
Due to the charismatic nature of more reactionary commentators like Vincent James or Nick Fuentes, this will inevitably drive many millions more conservatives further to the reactionary right. Millions of Trump’s supporters are disenfranchised and feel that they have no representation in government. The movement Trump built will eventually transform into a more right-wing version, even more capable of challenging the system and its institutions.
Overreach by Weaponized Institutions
The Tea Party was founded in 2009, but the strong rise of the Tea Party was a reaction to the Obama administration’s weaponized institutions. In April of 2017, hundreds of new documents were released containing admissions by IRS officials about the targeting of conservative organizations.
Beginning in March 2010, groups with names containing the words “Tea Party” or “patriot” were singled out for greater IRS scrutiny. Later, in an attempt to change from overtly partisan to more general criteria, the IRS shifted to targeting organizations with the goal of “teaching about the Constitution.”
Conservative groups were raided for documents, investigated, and audited. In July of 2010, True the Vote, a Houston-based conservative grassroots organization, applied for IRS tax-exempt status. In the following months, the group’s founder, Catherine Engelbrecht, endured six FBI domestic terrorism inquiries, investigations by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Texas environmental quality officials, as well as multiple IRS audits and five IRS requests for additional information about the organization.
1:01 min
This is just a snapshot of the targeting by Obama’s weaponized institutions during a time when America was in economic crisis, and the internet was far less advanced.
Today, America’s institutions are more powerful than ever before. Big tech and billion-dollar corporations have more power than the FBI, IRS, and the ATF combined. In fact, big tech alone has more political power than the entire federal government.
Left-wing political NGO’s are more in quantity and have more power than at any time in the history of the country. The rise of the internet allows for individual journalists, and everyday citizens to use these weaponized institutions to destroy their political enemies, and the lives of their family members.
The Pendulum Swing
If the rise of the Tea Party, and the Presidency of Trump was a reaction to the Obama administration, imagine what will be the reaction to a Biden administration; which has already shown it has more teeth.
With every institution on his side ready to be weaponized, some more powerful than ever before; what Americans experienced under the Obama administration will feel like a cakewalk.
With Kamala Harris as VP, gun rights organizations dying out, and the anti-gun allies Biden has already placed around him; the threat to the second amendment will be more real than ever before.
With coronavirus lockdowns, millions of pending evictions, the coming end to fracking, and certain new wars in the middle east; Biden will preside over a down economy and a nation at war once again.
Regardless of how hard they try, the movement Trump created will never die, it will only go stronger awaiting to be activated. If the Regime thought that the Tea Party and then Trump was a right-wing reaction to Obama, they haven’t seen nothing yet.