Posts on Saturday, January 9, 2021
A security guard and four other people were killed and two others were injured in a shooting rampage that began in Chicago and ended when police in Evanston fatally shot the suspect during a shootout, authorities confirmed. (Snip) When officers arrived, the suspect ran into an IHOP and took a woman hostage.
The woman was then shot by the suspect, police said, and has since been taken into surgery at a local hospital. The suspect then became involved in a shootout with officers, according to Evanston Police Chief Demitrous Cook.
The suspect was shot by police and taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Representative Dan Crenshaw (R., Texas) on Thursday criticized fellow Republicans for “lying to millions” of people about the significance of Wednesday’s electoral vote count, which was delayed for hours after Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol during the proceedings.
In an appearance on Fox News, Crenshaw said that while he disagreed with Senators Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) “in a fundamental way about the constitutionality of this process … and the ability of Congress to overturn any electoral votes,” period, that the pair were not to blame for the rioting that erupted on Wednesday.
Parler, the alternative social media platform favored by conservatives, now finds itself virtually homeless on the internet as Amazon, Apple and Google have all booted it from their platforms in a span of a little more than 24 hours. Amazon will remove Parler from its cloud hosting service, Amazon Web Services, Sunday evening, effectively kicking it off of the public Internet after mounting pressure from the public and Amazon employees. The decision, which goes into force on Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time, effectively shuts down Parler's website until it can find a new Web hosting provider. BuzzFeed News was first to report the move. Parler is an alternative
Only white artists were nominated for Best Children’s Album — and three of them have asked to be taken off the ballot. Artists of color in children’s music are fed up with the genre’s homogeneity: “It’s like being served a baked potato with fries and hash browns on the side,” says one black artist. [SNIP] “The Grammy Awards are the pinnacle. But they’re a part of this system that has been built with white superiority in mind, like all of our other systems in this country.”
One of the many bits of fallout from Wednesday’s riot was the decision by Twitter to permanently ban President Trump’s account, as Allahpundit covered yesterday. While Jack Dorsey’s outfit has deleted some of Trump’s tweets in the past, pasted warnings on others, and even temporarily suspended his account, this was the first time the ban hammer had been swung at a public official in such a forceful and permanent fashion. Their stated reason for doing so was, at best, debatable in terms of any rational justification. Yes, they have rules against promoting violence, but contrary to some of AP’s analysis,
The left and Big Tech have been moving quickly over the past couple of days.
The President of the United States has been booted off Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram. Shopify has booted MAGA merchandise from their stores. Parler is getting pressure by both Apple and Google to ‘moderate’ their site, ‘moderate’ their belief in free speech. So far their CEO is refusing the pressure.
Meanwhile Joe Biden is thinking up a new law to deal with “ideologically-inspired” “domestic terrorism.” He declared the thousands of protesters who had been at the Capitol were “domestic terrorists,” making no distinction between those who committed crimes and those who had not
Apple Inc. removed Parler from its App Store after the social media service was among those used to organize Wednesday’s riots at the Capitol. The removal came a day after the Cupertino, California-based technology giant threatened to remove the app, telling the developers Friday they had 24 hours to provide Apple with a plan for moderating and filtering the service. Apple said in a letter to Parler Saturday that the app was removed because its measures were “inadequate to address the proliferation of dangerous and objectionable content on your app.” Parler will stay off its App Store on the iPhone, iPad, and other devices until it’s able to show
Star Rangers defenseman Tony DeAngelo deleted his Twitter account, calling the platform a “disgrace” after the president was permanently banned from the social media platform two days following the Capitol riots.Like many other outspoken Trump supporters, the 25-year-old DeAngelo said moving forward he would use Parler, an alternative platform popular among conservatives.Parler was recently suspended by Google’s app store because of “continued posting in the Parler app that seeks to incite ongoing violence in the U.S.”Head coach David Quinn said the Rangers spoke with DeAngelo about his actions,
Democrats, their activist media arm, and their Big Tech doorkeepers are perilously close to pressing their advantage far too far and alienating sympathetic right-leaning and centrist voters with their ongoing attacks on President Trump. Not only has the sitting President of the United States of America been deplatformed pretty much everywhere on the internet, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly spoke to the Joint Chiefs about stripping him of his Constitutional authority with regard to his role as Commander in Chief.(Snip)What it was, however, may be considered an attempt to “orchestrate a military coup against a sitting president.”
A lawmaker who has been a key defender of Donald Trump said Friday that House Republicans are preparing as though Speaker Nancy Pelosi's team will launch a second impeachment of the president next week."I am not thinking months ahead. I am thinking days ahead," Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said in in an interview with Just the News shortly after emerging from an impeachment preparation call with other GOP colleagues. "And I believe that in the coming days, Democrats are going to bring articles of impeachment to the floor of the Congress, and that I will, again, be defending against them."
It’s not over yet
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As I write to you today, I have no doubt that this letter will find many of you crushed under the weight of despair or perhaps lost in a maze of confusion.It is my hope that by the time you finish reading this letter you will be able to confidently join millions who support the president and another four years.
Federal Prosecutor Opens Excessive Force Investigation
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Into the Death of Ashli Babbitt: Report replies
Michael Sherwin, acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said that his office has started a federal, excessive force investigation over the shooting and killing of former U.S. Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt in the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Sherwin confirmed the investigation with CBS News.
His civil rights section will lead the prosecution, which is being investigated by D.C. police and the FBI.
The Epoch Times hasn’t been able to independently verify the investigation.
Brian Hudak, Acting Civil Chief of the U.S. Attorney Office of District of Columbia, the FBI, and The U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) didn’t respond to a request for comment.
The far-left social media platform Twitter permanently suspended President Donald Trump’s personal account, locked the president’s official government account and conducted a purge of prominent pro-Trump accounts on Friday.The extraordinary, unprecedented, uneven move — one not applied to Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Louis Farrakhan, Richard Spencer and Chinese propagandists — provoked widespread outrage from the right and the middle.The move also provoked the president himself into releasing a scathing statement excoriating “Democrats and the Radical Left” for their endorsement of authoritarian censorship and vowing to develop his “own platform in the near future.”The president initially sought to release the statement through @POTUS after his personal account, @RealDonaldTrump, was suspended
Some supporters of President Donald Trump made a serious error in judgment earlier this week when they decided to break into the U.S. Capitol Building and assault (and allegedly kill) one police officer in the process.Looking back, it’s easy to believe that some of those people were lambasting Antifa and Black Lives Matter supporters all last year as they attacked innocents, burned buildings, looted businesses, and even killed supporters of the president.The invasion of the people’s house was not only a criminal act, but it was also monumental hypocrisy – in spite of the well-earned frustration many of us have felt after having lost a presidential election in an
The White House coronavirus task force sent states a report on Sunday warning that there might be a "USA variant" of the coronavirus. The variant could be fueling the unprecedented number of coronavirus cases and deaths in US, the report said, according to media outlets that obtained the document.But there is no scientific evidence yet that a more contagious version of the coronavirus has originated or started spreading in the US..
A group of House Republicans who voted to accept President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory asked him to persuade Speaker Nancy Pelosi to back off impeaching Donald Trump for instigating Wednesday’s riot at the U.S. Capitol. The lawmakers, led by Representative Ken Buck of Colorado, warned in a letter to Biden on Saturday that Trump’s impeachment would inflame his supporters anew, and damage Biden’s efforts to unify the country.
“In the spirit of healing and fidelity to our Constitution, we ask that you formally request that Speaker Nancy Pelosi discontinue her efforts to impeach President Donald J. Trump a second time,” the wrote.
Following Wednesday's violence at the US Capitol, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown is calling for Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to resign.
Brown said if they do not resign, the Senate "must expel them."
In a tweet, Brown said Hawley and Cruz "have betrayed their oaths of office and abetted a violent insurrection on our democracy."
The third-ranking Democrat in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Patty Murray, also called for Hawley and Cruz to resign, saying their objections to the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory “incited and supported the violent mob that attacked the Capitol.”
What a difference a year makes. Last year, former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick tweeted praise for the ongoing violent riots that were gripping the country at the time. He stayed on Twitter and even got a $3 million donation from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. This week, President Trump was kicked off Twitter for good for allegedly inciting violence among his supporters before they stormed the U.S. Capitol. The contrast gained immediate attention. [SNIP] In one 2020 tweet highlighted by the site, Kaepernick said of the destructive demonstrations occurring across the country: "When civility leads to death, revolting is the only logical reaction."
The FBI is investigating whether active or retired FDNY firefighters took part in the siege at the US Capitol, The Post has learned. The department issued a statement Saturday in response to questions about a photo posted to Twitter of a man wearing a jacket marked “FDNY Squad 252” on the back, standing near the entrance to the Capitol and carrying an American flag. “The department received anonymous allegations that active or retired members were present at the events at the United States Capitol on January 6 and, as required, has provided that information to the FBI,” the statement said. Squad 252 is a Special Operations Command
The New York City man who joined a mob that breached the US Capitol was seen leaving his home Friday for the first time since he was revealed to be the son of a prominent Brooklyn judge.
Aaron Mostofsky — who sported a wacky fur costume inside the breached building as he griped about a “stolen election” — was caught on camera leaving his home while carrying a suit on a hanger and a plastic bag.
Mostofsky, the son of Brooklyn Supreme Court judge Shlomo Mostofsky, a well-known figure in the Orthodox Jewish community, was apparently still a free man Friday afternoon — as other protesters who stormed the building were arrested.
Last summer, criminal mobs stormed federal buildings in an attempt to intimidate our elected officials and overturn our democratic republic. “Burn it down” and “No USA at all” were their frequent chants. Some demagogic politicians egged them on. People died.
Fast forward to last week. Another criminal mob stormed another federal building in another attempt to intimidate our elected officials and overturn our democratic republic. “Stop the steal” was their frequent chant. Some demagogic politicians egged them on. People died.
The media accurately reported last week’s riot as a riot, but they reported last summer’s riots as “mostly peaceful protests.”
For a half-century, the trend in political culture has been inexorably in one direction: toward the steady loosening and eventually the near-obliteration of media filters. If someone has a voice that other people want to hear, that voice is going to be heard. No smug editor at the New York Times or damn anchorman at CBS News is going to get in the way. Who the hell elected them, after all, to decide what points of view were worthy of dissemination, what facts or rumors or even flat falsehoods should reach average citizens, who could decide for themselves what to make of it?
Wednesday’s mob assault on Capitol Hill was shocking and brazen: Hundreds of MAGA-hat-wearing rioters broke into the seat of American democracy. They stormed the halls, looting property and assaulting law enforcers, all in service of an absurd political demand: reversing the outcome of an election.
Now where had I witnessed such scenes before? The answer: in blue-governed cities in my native Pacific Northwest throughout last summer and into the fall and winter. The right-wing political violence was met with universal rebuke from politicians of both parties and the media. But many of those who are loudest in condemning the Capitol Hill riot went radio-silent
A Florida man allegedly photographed grinning as he carried away House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern after a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the nation’s Capitol is among the latest people charged in Wednesday’s mayhem that left five people dead.
Adam Johnson, 36, of Parrish, Florida, was arrested Friday night on a federal warrant and was being held Saturday without bail in Pinellas County, Florida, according to jail records that do not show if he has an attorney. Johnson is a married father of five who was quickly identified on social media by local residents as the man in a photo smiling as he walked
After the white nationalist riots in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and others renewed their demands for the suppression of conservative speech on social media. After Trump’s supporters breached the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Big Tech companies clamped down on President Donald Trump and many of his supporters. Incoming President Joe Biden has said he plans to pass a law against domestic terrorism. While conservatives rightly denounced the violence this week, this response bodes ill for conservative speech not just on social media, but in the public square and even in private organizations.
In the aftermath of the Capitol riots, Twitter suspended
Deadline.com leans reliably to the Left, but the news outlet played it straight this week for a big announcement.
The site revealed The Daily Wire’s first feature film will be “Run Hide Fight,” a Die Hard-style thriller set during a school shooting. Daily Wire has picked up North American rights to the Venice title, about a 17-year-old who must fight for her life and those of her schoolmates against a group of live-streaming terrorists. Isabel May, Thomas Jane and Radha Mitchell star in the film, whose first full trailer we can now reveal. The Daily Wire announced over the weekend it plans to start producing original films and TV shows
President Donald Trump has reportedly been banned from using at least one email service, severing his ability to communicate with his supporters.
“At least one of the services the team used, @CampaignMonitor, has suspended Trump's access, the company confirmed,” Financial Times writer Dave Lee announced on Twitter Jan. 8. Lee commented earlier in that same tweet that Trump as a result has been silenced on email, “There hasn't been any Trump emails for more than 48 hours. Almost unheard of -- he sent 33 in the first six days of Jan; 2,500+ last year. (h/t @TrumpEmail).”
Twitter saw a surprising item trending on Friday night when "Hang Mike Pence" hit around 14,000 tweets, according to reports. The social media platform announced Friday night that it was permanently suspending President Donald Trump’s Twitter account.
The decision was made "due to the risk of further incitement of violence," according to a statement on the company’s blog. Many users were confused, then, to see such a violent item in the trending section.
Another Top Player in the Conservative
Movement Just Dumped Twitter Amid
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Movement Just Dumped Twitter Amid
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Rush Limbaugh has jettisoned Twitter. It’s gone. He was not suspended or banned. He deactivated his account. This comes after the social media giant permanently banned President Donald Trump with just days left in his presidency. The banning of the president is directly linked to the storming of the Capitol Building that occurred after he addressed his supporters at the Save America rally on Wednesday. Five people were killed in the melees. Twitter issued a statement noting that Limbaugh’s departure was voluntary ( (Snip)Trump is banned. Limbaugh went into the bunker, but scores of conservatives are getting purged from the platform. It’s in the thousands. Prominent conservatives have seen
Historic blizzard in Spain kills 5, leaves thousands
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A historic snowstorm that blanketed most of Spain overnight and into the morning has killed at least five people, leaving thousands stranded in cars, airports and train stations. According to the Spanish newspaper El País, storm Filomena paralyzed the country’s capital Madrid, one of the worst affected areas, as an unexpectedly heavy snowfall impacted emergency services to circulate. The BBC reported that further south, the storm caused rivers to burst their banks. Road, rail and air travel were disrupted across the country. Interior Minister Fernando Grande- Marlaska, called Filomena “the most intense storm in the last 50 years.”
CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Friday clarified a seemingly elitist remark he made earlier this week, suggesting the U.S. Capitol rioters were the type of people who might patronize Olive Garden. Many perceived it as condescending to both Trump supporters and the popular restaurant chain. "Look at them, they’re high-fiving each other for this deplorable display of completely unpatriotic, completely against law-and-order, completely unconstitutional behavior. It’s stunning," Cooper said on his show "AC360."
Michelle Obama Gave The Order
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It really is a thing to behold the Left’s active effort to send all the riots, unrest, and fires of the past several years down the memory hole. When Ferguson, Missouri, was set on fire by Black Lives Matter and Lisa Fithian-trained shock troops, no one called for Barack Obama to be taken off Twitter, Facebook, or any other social media. However, his wife, Michelle Obama, this week called for the permanent removal of President Trump from all social media platforms because of Wednesday’s siege at the Capitol Building.
The next day he was.
The petition to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom exceeded one million signatures this week.
“The people are being heard loud and clear, and it is not a matter of IF we are going to reach our goal necessary that will trigger a recall election of Newsom, it is just when we cross the finish line,” Orrin Heatlie, the lead proponent of the effort to remove the Democrat, in a statement.
There are approximately nine weeks for organizers to gather 500,000 additional signatures, which would put the petition on the ballot for Californians to vote on. March 17 is the deadline.
Heatlie called the recall campaign a “literal steamroller and Gavin Newsom’s failed policies
The MAGA mob rioter who was pictured swinging from the Senate balcony is now begging for forgiveness because he just got 'caught up in the moment', while a data-analytics CEO arrested for his involvement says it was the 'single worst' decision of his life. Several Trump supporters who stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday are now expressing their regret as authorities continue to arrest those involved in the rampage that lawmakers have branded a 'terrorist attack'. More than 80 have been arrested so far but dozens of those involved, who were labeled as 'great patriots by Trump, are yet to be identified. The FBI is asking for help
Mark it down, NewsBusters readers: January 8, 2021 will go down as one of the greatest days in the lives of more than a few CNN charlatans due to the massive, unprecedented crackdown on American free speech, including Twitter’s permanent banning of President Trump. On CNN’s Situation Room, the mood was euphoric as they celebrated the “amazing situation” and “historic moment” of Twitter having “kneecapped” Trump before our very eyes, even though it was many years later for these censorship fiends.
Liberal law professor Jonathan Turley on Saturday issued a warning about Democrats' long-term damage to the Constitution should they continue to press forward with their plans to impeach President Donald Trump (yet again) as his administration comes to a close. "In seeking his removal for 'incitement,' Democrats would gut not only the impeachment standard but free speech, all in a mad rush to remove Trump just days before the end of his term," Turley wrote in an opinion piece for The Hill.Although the law professor took issue with Trump's speech before supporters, as well as Republicans objections
CNN star Anderson Cooper, the son of the famous and uber-wealthy fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt, can’t help it sometimes if his white-haired privilege gets the best of him. On Wednesday, in the immediate aftermath of the Capitol rioting in the Jake Tapper hour, Cooper made an obvious conclusion that rioting at the Capitol was deplorable, and then added that the Deplorables then went to the Olive Garden to celebrate. ANDERSON COOPER: Can I just say, we're watching these images of people, some of them leaving the Capitol grounds, wandering back, high-fiving each other smiling, quite pleased with themselves
Bill Gates has been accused of hypocrisy after entering a bid to buy the world's largest private jet operator, just one month before he releases a book preaching about climate change. The Microsoft boss's company Cascade Investment entered the bidding war for Signature Aviation Friday, teaming up with Blackstone Group to make a $4.3 billion play for the British private jet servicing company. Cascade and Blackstone are now going head-to-head with private equity firm Carlyle, which had already made an initial takeover approach. Gates' Cascade already owns a 19 percent stake in Signature making it the firm favorite to win the bid.
Rudy Giuliani encouraged President Trump to go on a declassification spree in the final days of his administration.With less than two weeks until President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated, the former New York City mayor, who is Trump's personal lawyer, insisted the time for "harmony" is over."At many times, I thought he was ready to do it, and many times it was blocked by, I have to assume, the force that we now call the 'deep state.' I have my suspicions where. Now, there is no longer any reason to try to create some kind of harmony, and therefore, not do it," Giuliani told former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon
They thought they were heroes; that much is obvious. The animal furs and war paint, the banners and utility vests, the slogan slinging and wall climbing: Wednesday’s attack on the U.S. Capitol felt like fiction to watch, and doubtless many pro-Trump insurrectionists had Hollywood on their mind as they pillaged and took selfies. Some participants wore the logo of the Punisher, the Marvel Comics character who stabs muggers in Central Park. Others flaunted shirts that said CIVIL WAR in a font recalling the Avengers sequel of the same name. Those shirts were printed with the date January 6, 2021, which helps clear up whether the chaos was spontaneous.
During a portion of an interview set to air on Sunday’s broadcast of CBS’ “60 Minutes” that was released Friday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that President Donald Trump is a “deranged, unhinged, dangerous” president of the United States. Pelosi said, “Well, sadly, the person who’s running the executive branch is a deranged, unhinged, dangerous president of the United States, and only a number of days until we can be protected from him. But he has done something so serious that there should be prosecution against him.”Pelosi added that invoking the 25th Amendment is still on the table
Trump superfans are heading for the exits.
Just hours after President Trump was permanently banned from Twitter, his diehards on the platform vowed they would move on as well. “Goodbye Twitter” trended during the early morning hours Saturday as people continued to come to grips with the leader of the free world being deplatformed.
“Goodbye Twitter friends. See you @parler,” said one user, citing a more pro free speech social media alternative to Twitter that is popular with conservatives.“I’m a small MAGA account and I have lost 400 followers in 3 days. Goodbye Twitter. You don’t want me,
As insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol this week, a few figures stood out. One man, clad in a combat helmet, body armor, and other tactical gear, was among the group that made it to the inner reaches of the building. Carrying zip-tie handcuffs, he was captured in photographs and videos on the Senate floor and with a group that descended on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office suite. In a video shot by ITV News, he is seen standing against a wall adjacent to Pelosi’s office, his face covered by a bandana. At another point, he appears to exit the suite, face exposed, pushing his way through the crowds of demonstrators
The Space Force proved instrumental in thwarting an Iranian missile attack on American bases in Iraq last year, a new report shows.
A review of the events of January 7, 2020, reported by C4ISRNET indicates that the newly created Space Force’s early warning system allowed hundreds of Americans to quickly shelter in bunkers as Iran fired over a dozen ballistic missiles at U.S. military installations.
The missile attacks came days after a U.S. drone strike killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. A Space Force early warning team at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colo., picked up unusual readings
WASHINGTON — Democrats laid the groundwork on Friday for impeaching President Trump a second time, as Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California threatened to bring him up on formal charges if he did not resign “immediately” over his role in inciting a violent mob attack on the Capitol this week. The threat was part of an all-out effort by furious Democrats, backed by a handful of Republicans, to pressure Mr. Trump to leave office in disgrace after the hourslong siege by his supporters on Wednesday on Capitol Hill. Although he has only 12 days left in the White House, they argued he was a direct danger to the nation.
Joe Biden is poised to launch a COVID-19 economic relief plan worth “trillions” of dollars, the president-elect announced Friday. The relief plan will target state and local governments as well as provide new support for people who have lost their jobs as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, he said. Biden’s original plan was for a bill under $1 trillion but he said on Friday that “economic research confirms that with conditions like the crisis today, especially with such low-interest rates, taking immediate action—even with deficit financing—is going to help the economy.”
Biden, who plans to unveil details on Thursday,
Soul searching and lecturing following the election and Wednesday’s Capitol protests and riots have done nothing to tamp down GOP outrage.
According to a new survey, a record high 71% of President Trump's supporters believe the country is headed toward civil war.
What’s more, 40% of President-elect Joe Biden's supporters agree.
Trump has done little to cool feelings, today tweeting that he plans to stay in the fight after leaving office.
The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected
JAKARTA, Indonesia — A Sriwijaya Air passenger jet carrying 62 people lost contact with air traffic controllers on Saturday, minutes after taking off from Indonesia’s capital on a domestic flight, officials said.
Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said Flight SJ182 was delayed for an hour before it took off at 2:36 p.m. The Boeing 737-500 disappeared from radar four minutes later, after the pilot contacted air traffic control to ascend to an altitude of 29,000 feet (8,839 meters), he said.
The airline said in a statement that the plane was on an estimated 90-minute flight from Jakarta to Pontianak, the capital of West Kalimantan province on Indonesia’s Borneo island.
A football coach for the University of Tennessee has been fire after posting a now-deleted tweet mocking Stacey Abrams as fat. (snip) So horrifying was this rude characterization that the chancellor of the University put out a video denouncing it as “hateful, hurtful, and untrue.” [Video embed](snip) I’ll concede that the tweet was hateful and hurtful (as is being called a racist, rhetoric we hear on campuses nearly every day), but the good Chancellor was not specific as to what was untrue. (snip) Does he mean that Stacey Abrams is not fat? (snip) George Orwell understood why a political system would want to force people to affirm obvious untruths.
The woke purge
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Cancel culture doesn’t exist, they say. And yet with the flick of a switch, billionaire capitalists voted for by precisely nobody have just silenced a man who is still the democratically elected president of the United States. With the push of a button in their vast temples to technology, the new capitalist oligarchs of Silicon Valley have prevented a man who won the second largest vote in the history of the American republic just two months ago — 74million votes — from engaging with his supporters (and critics) in the new public square of the internet age.Not only does cancel culture exist —
Welcome to West China
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Did you ever wonder what it’s like to live in a one-party state?
Well, wonder no more. You’re living in one. The major means of communication—in today’s terms that means social media—have now been taken over completely by the left.
Not only has Donald Trump—still the president of the United States—been permanently banned from Twitter, its rapidly growing, open-to-all substitute Parler has almost simultaneously been de-platformed by Google.
You can’t get their app for Android anymore.
Apple threatens to be next, demanding Parler kowtow (by Saturday!) to Cupertino’s vision of what the world should be.
I suppose that’s a social-justicey-politically-correct totalitarianism led by left-leaning… or so they want us to believe… tech billionaires.
John Sullivan, videographer and founder of “a group for racial justice and police reform,” posted a video on YouTube on Jan. 7 that shows him entering the Capitol building in Washington with a group of Trump supporters and possibly others on the previous day. He’s heard on video encouraging others and convincing Capitol police to let the trespassers through at several impasses.
The Zuckerberg Heist
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In September 2020, right here in this nationally syndicated newspaper column and on a subsequent report on my Newsmax show, "Sovereign Nation," I sounded the alarm over Silicon Valley's hijacking of our election system through a private nonprofit called the Center for Technology and Civic Life.
In October, I tipped off the White House and publicly urged the FBI and Justice Department to investigate. Nothing was done. Not a single federal official objected. So, the Zuckerberg Heist will happen again and again in this farce of a constitutional republic. Free and fair elections in America are a pipe dream.
The most recent Gallup survey on media credibility found that the percentage of Americans who trust the Fourth Estate “a great deal” is 9 percent. Assuming that this abysmal showing doesn’t constitute some perverse source of pride in America’s newsrooms, an honest self-examination of their coverage concerning Wednesday’s mayhem on Capitol Hill would be a good way to begin rehabilitating their reputation. Their response to that utterly predictable event was both monolithic and moronic. That they are guilty of both charges can be validated by typing “insurrection” into Google and searching News. This word is used—fallaciously—in countless headlines about an event that didn’t remotely justify such a description.
US President Donald Trump has urged his followers to leave the Capitol peacefully after they stormed the building following his angry speech denouncing the 2020 election results earlier in the day.
Videos have emerged on social media that appear to show US Capitol Police officers pulling barricades away to let pro-Trump protesters through outside the US Capitol on Wednesday.
Shortly after President Trump was banned on Twitter on Friday, Hillary Clinton was out in force on Twitter, spending the time and effort it takes to dig up one of her years-old tweets against him in order to crow about the event as some kind of victory. On Twitter, she put out this: (Snip for tweet) Her tweet is a reference to an old pre-2016-election tweet she put out, demanding that President Trump close his entire account. "Delete your account" was her insulting demand to something then-candidate Donald Trump tweeted at the time, and among her supporters, she got a lot of applause.
If you believe the media and most Beltway politicians, the entire country is appalled at President Trump and wants him erased from history. (snip) The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll, Sponsored by SLANTED from Sharyl Attkisson, for Friday shows that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. (snip) On the fifth and sixth of January, Trump's total approval figure was 47%. The movement may be small, but it is the direction that is important. (snip) The media and other Democrats don’t realize it, but they have so discredited themselves that their attacks on Trump are now working against their own interests.
Georgia will elect Republican senators if the state’s legislature “shuts the door on future election fraud,” Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA) told Breitbart News on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with special guest host Matt Boyle.
Hice said some Republican voters abstained from voting in Tuesday’s runoff U.S. Senate elections in Georgia due to distrust in election integrity.
“It was a high turnout for a runoff election,” he remarked. “It was a significantly high turnout. Now there were some [Republican voters] who did not turn out, because of their lack of confidence that it was going to be a secure vote, and that has to be addressed.”
D.C. has spoken. It is fine to burn down businesses and threaten homeowners in the name of "racial justice," but you must never, ever question the results of a political election that takes most of a week to sort out before declaring a winner.
Black Lives Matter and Antifa are reportedly sitting on billions of dollars in donations after causing billions of dollars in property damage in this last year. Americans who took part in "Stop the Steal" rallies at the Capitol will not find fat bank accounts awaiting them once D.C.'s wrath goes scorched earth on Trump-supporters.
My "hockey mom" wife had the best analysis of the Trump-supporters march on the Capitol. She observed that this is what happens when there are too many "no-calls" in a hockey game. Players can skate through the bad calls, but it's one no-call after another that leads to the gloves dropping. Games get out of hand when the players on the aggrieved team come to believe they have nothing to lose by retaliating because the rules aren't being enforced anyway. They've reached the breaking point.
For the Trump-supporters, the last four years were a litany of "no-calls." I can't even begin to think of them all.
On Friday, although President Trump is still President of the United States, Twitter officially and permanently banned him from the site. The other media sites were not far behind. Indeed, they’re systematically banning anyone associated with Trump’s contention that there was election fraud. Moreover, they’re doing so by erasing Trump’s actual words in order to present him as a vicious agitator. (snip) Google has therefore removed Parler from the App store for “user safety.” Apple is threatening to do the same unless Parler starts acting like the other tech companies and censors speech Democrats find offensive. Amazon is also making noises about deplatforming Parler.
It's our own fault. We allowed Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to control the narrative while Google controlled the answers to any questions. They now believe they can define what happened on January 6, 2021 with impunity and we will accept their lies as truth. We the people, however, are all too aware of what they are trying to accomplish, having been witness to the Hunter Biden story dissolving into the ether from inaccessibility and the silencing of any dissent as they stole a presidency. (Snip) For the entire year, the left has tried to provoke the right into violence. On Wednesday, they got what they wished for. CORRECTION*
Big tech has launched an unprecedented and coordinated cyber attack on President Donald Trump and his 74,000,000 voters.
As this was happening — the GOP was dead silent.
On Friday, Twitter permanently banned hundreds, if not thousands, of Trump supporters and prominent allies — before banning the president himself. Nearly every account that helped to promote the Stop the Steal rallies or challenge the election results were banned, including Ali Alexander, Michael Coudrey, Gen. Mike Flynn, Sidney Powell, and Lin Wood. Countless smaller accounts that supported the president were also getting suspended in a seemingly constant rate.
The same has been happening over on Facebook and Instagram.
Sen. Sherrod Brown continues calls for 25th Amendment,
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asks Republicans to acknowledge fair election replies
If the U.S. House moves on impeachment hearings, it needs to happen quickly, Sen. Sherrod Brown said. In a news conference Friday morning, Brown said he supports first invoking the 25th Amendment, which allows the vice president and a majority of the president's Cabinet to remove the sitting president.(Snip)But either way, Brown said his main concern is not punishing President Donald Trump but restricting what he could do over the next 12 days with national and domestic security. “This is beyond anything we’ve ever seen,” Brown said. “There’s no telling what this president might do in the next 12 days.”
The political crisis the United States is now facing brings into the open a contest for the soul of our country. As important as this recent election is, the stakes transcend particular political arrangements—they go to fundamental issues, about which each of us must make a choice and take a stand.
A peculiarity of our current situation is this: While every American is intricately familiar with the pandemic and the effect it has had on our lives, this is not the case for voter fraud, despite the evidence being overwhelming.
Some Americans are ignorant of these facts because they have been misinformed by a media that willfully withholds information.
An appointee to the Ohio Arts Council resigned Friday after making a vulgar comment on social media about Vice President-elect Kamala Harris that also supported President Donald Trump’s false claims that he won the election. Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said he accepted Susan Allan Block’s resignation a day after his office issued a statement saying her comments were highly offensive.
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Newsweek logo Donald Trump Block Shows Twitter 'Must Not Like Democracy,' Says Parler CEO John Matze
The CEO of Parler, a social media platform favored by conservatives, has said Twitter's blocking of Donald Trump suggests it "must not like democracy." John Matze—who co-founded the website in 2018—made the comment on Thursday in response to the president's daughter, Tiffany Trump, who shared a statement released by her father that pledged an "orderly transition" to Joe Biden later this month.
RUSH: We just have a new sound bite here from Nancy Pelosi, CNN’s Newsroom.(Snip)Manu Raju reported about Pelosi’s California call with the House Democrat caucus about possible new articles of impeachment against the Trumpster.(Snip)I’ve never seen personal animosity like this. I mean, it is almost to the point of uncontrollable and unpackageable.(Snip)They’re terrified that Trump is gonna unleash classified documents. You know, he’s got a bevy of ’em, folks. He’s got classified documents about the hoax, the four-year coup.(Snip)They are scared to death--they are terrified--that Trump is gonna pardon people who are dangerous to the establishment.