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Refuse to Be Silenced-by Kurt Schlichter

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2021/01/14/refuse-to-be-silenced-n2583120

Parler’s gone for now, the victim of a conspiracy to silence, but it will return. The fascists can try, but they can’t shut us up forever. Truth flows like water around obstacles. The Twitbookgram decided to start playing whack-a-prole to bonk unapproved ideas on the noggin and pretty soon too many heads will be popping up out of too many new holes. They will pop up on Gab, or Clouthub, or Dave Rubin’s Locals.com. People will find a way to be heard.

Once you leave their personal domains, the tech overlords become…irrelevant, and powerless.

Now, they can conspire, collaborate, and likely violate antitrust laws, though it is hilarious to assume that a Biden* DoJ will find anything out of sorts about that. The Democrat Party, and far too many Fredocon hacks in the GOP, are bought and paid for. They are happy to auction themselves off in a bidding war between Silicon Valley and Beijing. And there are a few remaining Muh Free Enterprisers who confuse capitalism and monopoly corporatism, and who are happy to surrender their sovereignty if their twisted principles so demand. But there is only so much the silicon villains can do. Eventually, some enterprising entrepreneur in Latvia is going to have a server farm no one in Cupertino can switch off.

They are shooting their wad, as far as the corporate tech censorship goes. It’s a hassle right now, but we will not be gagged.

And we have some plays too. The feds are all on the side of censorship, sure, but what about our red states? Every single state that has a GOP majority has the chance to pass its own laws to protect freedom of thought and speech. And they should. They should do it yesterday.

‘Trump Nation’ Numbers At Least 150 Million Americans Edward Ring

https://amgreatness.com/2021/01/15/trump-nation-numbers-at-least-150-million-americans/

“Getting rid of Trump is the easy part, cleansing the movement he commands is going to be something else.”
— ABC News Political Director Rick Klein, in a tweet he later deleted.

This sums up the sentiments that inform America’s establishment media, its corporate elite, Big Tech, academia, most of the public sector, the entire Democratic Party, and most of the Republican Party leadership. What do we do with 74,222,593 people? How will we reeducate these troglodytic haters? How will we control these dangerous insurrectionists?

Despite virtually every powerful special interest lined up against them, this “cleansing” will indeed be tough. Because, first of all, we are not talking about 74 million Trump supporters. We’re talking about over 150 million Trump supporters. To say that only 74 million Americans support Trump rests on an impossible assumption: that every American who didn’t vote for Trump, or for Biden, automatically is supposed to have supported Biden.

Unfortunately for the tastemakers and kingmakers of America, that’s not how reality works. A careful examination of the official election results by state yields several fascinating facts. For example, assuming the 1.8 percent going to third party candidates splits equally between Trump and Biden (with such a small fraction, it doesn’t matter much anyway), then Trump voters spoke for 47.7 percent of the population, and Biden voters spoke for 52.3 percent of the American population. That would be, for Trump, over 157 million people.

Why wouldn’t this be true? On what basis would anyone assume that Trump would not command the support of as many non-voting households as Biden? Moreover, in the 25 states where Trump won, a larger percentage of the population is under age 18, 24 percent, than in the 25 states where Biden won, 22 percent. That’s a slim difference, but it puts to rest the notion that the states where Trump won are filled with aging hillbillies.

In fact, one of Trump’s most decisive victories came in Utah, where he earned 61 percent of the vote despite the unhelpful influence of Mitt Romney. Utah is America’s youngest state, with 30 percent of its population under age 18.

More Eligible Voters

OPEN Letter to the President J.B. Williams

https://newswithviews.com/open-letter-to-the-president/

Dear President Donald J. Trump,

 
First and foremost, I want to thank you for setting your entire personal and professional life aside to enter national leadership in an effort to “Make America Great Again” by putting America first for the first time in decades. You made many promises in seeking the Presidency and you worked around the clock to keep all of them. You brought to bear, the incredible talents of your entire family in pursuit of an honorable goal, on behalf of all Americans and I thank you and your family for the many sacrifices you have made.
 

That said, I want you to know that more than 80-million patriotic Americans stand the ready to fight for you and our Constitutional Republic. Every American knows that the 2020 elections were rotten with fraud all across the country. Many won’t admit it and others boldly support the fraud, as the end justifies any means for the enemies of America.

Every American also knows that if this fraudulent election is allowed to stand, and Biden and Harris are inaugurated on January 20, 2021, elections and political party functions are entirely irrelevant to our future. We know that the Department of Justice has hidden massive evidence of political crime and corruption in the DNC and RNC ranks. We know that the FBI has done the same, as has the mainstream media, making it impossible for the voting population to have any idea who or what they voted for.

You cannot surrender to this evil cabal. If you do, you will not just be surrendering yourself and your family, but over 80-million Americans, our Constitution and Bill of Rights and the entire American way of life. You will be surrendering everything, for all of us. You simply cannot do that!

Major Twist in US Capitol Storming Might Have Gutted the Democrats’ Narrative on Trump Impeachment Matt Vespa

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2021/01/14/oh-so-the-capitol-hill-riot-was-a-planned-attack-n2583122

How Could Trump ‘Incite’ a Pre-Planned Attack?

President Trump was impeached yesterday by a mostly party-line vote. Ten House Republicans did cross the picket line to back the Democratic Party’s unhealthy fetish with impeaching this president. They did it using the Ukrainian quid pro quo sham which was pretty much was an offshoot of the wider Russian collusion hoax. Both were tied to a similar narrative. Both had next to nothing in terms of hard evidence. Now, with this riot that erupted on Capitol Hill last week, we’re back to this urge to remove Trump days before he’s set to leave office. 

The chaos occurred on January 6 when Congress was certifying the 2020 Electoral College results. Pro-Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol. Five people died. It renewed an impeachment push from Democrats. More Republicans were going to back it. In the Senate, Mitch McConnell reportedly is not all that upset over the move and did not rule out convicting the president. Did Trump mean to urge his supporters to storm the Hill? No. But it doesn’t take much after a contentious election with mountains of voter fraud allegations and years of populist rage to create a situation for things to boil over.

It’s Not Censorship, It’s a Coordinated Effort A time to strengthen families and communities Lee Smith

https://www.theepochtimes.com/its-not-censorship-its-a-coordinated-effort_3651971

Big Tech, social media, and the press used the violence on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6 as a pretext to purge their platforms of conservative figures and Republican officials, most notably President Donald Trump. Amazon, Apple, and Google conspired to deplatform Parler, regarded as a conservative, or free-speech, alternative to Twitter.

Critics of the sweeping actions argue, rightly, that censorship violates not only First Amendment freedoms but also the spirit of the law protecting internet service providers from liability.

But this isn’t censorship. Rather, it’s part of the strategic logic of mass conflict. The leadership of the political, corporate, and cultural establishment that today rules America shut down the communications of those against whom they are waging war.

The moves fully expose the architecture of the American oligarchy—Big Tech is a Democratic Party-funding mechanism and part of its operational arm, with social media and the prestige press serving as information-warfare platforms disseminating propaganda and blocking information damaging to the regime. For instance, Simon and Schuster canceled Sen. Josh Hawley’s book with the timely title of “The Tyranny of Big Tech,” claiming that Hawley played a dangerous role in events at the Capitol.

Jan. 6 was indeed a big deal, but not for the reasons the regime gives publicly. From its perspective, what Hawley did was much more dangerous when he officially questioned the integrity of the 2020 vote, i.e., the regime’s legitimacy.

In fact, the communication lockdowns began long before the election. Most famously, social media blocked allegations of Biden family corruption and financial ties to Chinese Communist Party proxies. Given Big Tech’s relationship with the CCP, concerns that a foreign power played a role in the decisions made by tech executives to silence Trump, Beijing’s most outspoken and still most powerful critic, can hardly be dismissed. In any case, the corruption of the American regime is now a matter of record, and that’s why its vanguard moved so quickly after the events of Jan. 6.

They were spooked.

Graham Releases Transcripts from Russia Probe, FISA Abuse Investigation Katie Pavlich

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2021/01/15/breaking-graham-releases-transcripts-from-russia-probe-investigation-n2583223

 Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham has released eleven transcripts of interviews conducted during his investigation of the origins of Crossfire Hurricane and FISA abuse. “As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I have decided to release all transcripts of depositions involving the committee’s oversight of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. We have released as much material as possible, but some classified material has still been withheld.

I appreciate all those who participated in the depositions and their candor. They have charted a path to allow us to reform the system,” Graham released in a statement. “I believe that Crossfire Hurricane was one of the most incompetent and corrupt investigations in the history of the FBI and DOJ.” “The FISA court was lied to. Exculpatory information was withheld on those being investigated. The investigators, with some notable exceptions, were incredibly biased and used the powers of law enforcement for political purposes.

The subjects of the investigation had their lives turned upside down. It is my hope that counterintelligence investigations will be reined in and this never happens again in America,” he continued. “I hope that the media will look closely at what happened and examine these documents, but I am not holding my breath…I will be pursuing reforms of counterintelligence investigations and warrant applications, and hope that my Democratic and Republican colleagues can find common ground on these matters. I also hope and expect that FBI Director Wray will continue the reforms he has started.

MORE HEADLINES JANUARY 16, 2021

FROM NATIONAL REVIEW:

Convict and Disqualify Trump By Dan McLaughlin

For the health of the Republican Party — and the nation — it is the right and just thing to do.

Biden inaugural rehearsal rescheduled, Amtrak trip canceled over security concerns: report https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-inaugural-rehearsal-rescheduled-amtrak-trip-canceled-over-security-concerns-report
Joe Biden Inauguration Featuring Choral Group, The Resistance Revival Chorus, That Smeared Conservatives as ‘Fascists’ https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/01/15/joe-biden-inauguration-featuring-choral-group-the-resistance-revival-chorus-that-smeared-conservatives-as-fascists/ 
Tucker Carlson: The latest ‘national crisis’ and the coming crackdown https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-national-crisis-coming-crackdown
House Dems who accused colleagues of aiding Capitol rioters have yet to provide any evidence https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-republicans-tours-capitol-riot-suspicious-reconnaissance
President Trump Declassifies Russia Collusion Documents — Coming as Soon as Friday https://canadafreepress.com/article/president-trump-declassifies-russia-collusion-documents-coming-as-soon-as-f

Beginning to Look Like It’s Time to Invent Another Internet https://townhall.com/columnists/marthaboneta/2021/01/13/beginning-to-look-like-its-time-to-invent-another-internet-n2583069

Twitter Permanently Bans Trump; Why Do Hillary Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Harry Reid Get a Pass? https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2021/01/14/twitter-permanently-bans-trump-why-do-hillary-clinton-jimmy-carter-harry-reid-get-a-pass-n2583095?
Huxley’s Warning: Totalitarianism in the 21st Century https://thejewishvoice.com/2021/01/huxleys-warning-totalitarianism-in-the-21st-century/

Project Veritas Video Shows Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Saying Censorship Is Not ‘Going Away Anytime Soon https://thejewishvoice.com/2021/01/project-veritas-video-shows-twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-saying-censorship-is-not-going-away-anytime-soon/
AOC and other progressives have a new goal: Silence the press https://nypost.com/2021/01/13/aoc-other-progressives-have-a-new-goal-silence-the-press/

PolitiFact Lies, Fake News Denies, and BLM Thrives https://townhall.com/columnists/ryanbomberger/2021/01/13/politifact-lies-fake-news-denies-and-blm-thrives-n2583063?
Arrest in Capitol siege – anarchist! https://www.wnd.com/2021/01/arrest-capitol-siege-anarchist/

Capitol Hill “Coup” Antagonist Is Radical Climate Change Activist. https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/capitol-antagonist-climate-change/
Another Violent Leftist Arrested at US Capitol Protest: Registered Democrat and 34-Year-Old Son of a New York Judge https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/another-leftist-arrested-capital-protest-identified-democrat-34-year-old-son-new-york-judge/

Microsoft helping create COVID-19 vaccination ‘passport’ https://www.wnd.com/2021/01/microsoft-helping-create-covid-19-vaccination-passport/

In Final Act, Trump Admin To Present ‘Bombshell’ Findings Blaming Wuhan Lab For COVID-19, WHO Cover-Up https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/final-act-trump-admin-present-bombshell-findings-blaming-wuhan-lab-covid-19-who-cover

China Locks Down 22 Million, More Than Double Last Year https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/pandemic-lockdowns-covid-19/2021/01/13/id/1005511/
13 people suffer facial paralysis after coronavirus vaccine – report https://www.jpost.com/health-science/13-people-suffered-face-paralysis-after-corona-vaccine-655542

23 Dead In Norway After Taking COVID Vaccine https://summit.news/2021/01/15/23-dead-in-norway-after-taking-covid-vaccine/

Pompeo: Four Years of Success in US-Israel Ties, Unprecedented Achievements Under Trump Administration https://unitedwithisrael.org/pompeo-four-years-of-success-in-us-israel-ties-unprecedented-achievements-under-trump/?

Netanyahu Warns Biden: Entering Iran Deal Would be Nuclear ‘Nightmare’, Spark Arms Race https://unitedwithisrael.org/netanyahu-warns-biden-entering-iran-deal-would-be-nuclear-nightmare-spark-arms-race/?

With Middle East on edge, miscalculation could trigger conflagration https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/with-middle-east-on-edge-miscalculation-could-trigger-conflagration-655322

Time to Fight A party is what people say it is and the people who say what it is run and win primaries, show up at conventions, and run for precinct chair. No more whining. Time for work. By Ned Ryun

https://amgreatness.com/2021/01/15/time-to-fight/

If you had any doubts about how much the swamp hates, loathes, fears, and despises Donald Trump, the fact that it has impeached him twice in roughly 13 months should remove all doubt. Mind you, neither of the impeachments has anything to do with facts. Both were about power and who wields it. 

Neither had anything to do with the Constitution or the republic or the betterment of the American people. Oh, no. This was the deeply corrupt D.C. system we have let run rampant for far too long, flexing its muscle, giving the middle finger to the American working class and taxpayer, who, of course, funds the system that funds the swamp. It was a warning shot to the American working class and taxpayers to mind their betters: anyone who champions their cause will be dealt with in like manner. 

This was entirely about setting the bar—warning any other American, any outsider who seeks even to try to restore the American republic or challenge the administrative state and ruling class—that there will be massive personal and financial costs for such activity.

The latest impeachment should also put to rest the farce that somehow Democrats and Biden desire unity. Spare me!

Part of the justification for the latest abuse of the impeachment process was the talk of Trump being like Osama bin Laden and that his supporters are “domestic terrorists.” This should have made it very clear that the Democrats’ idea of unity is submission and conformity to their radical ideas, not compromise or a return to sanity and reason. They want nothing to do with unity, and you’d better get that memo straight in your head: there will be no dissent. Once the “highest form of patriotism, dissent is now terrorism.

Our Mounting Orwellian Nightmare By Jeffrey Folks

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/our_mounting_orwellian_nightmare.html

So we are to imagine that those who objected to Biden’s having stolen the election are responsible for the violence at the Capitol?  And that, going forward, any public official who questions Biden’s win should be removed from office, and that any corporate leader who objects should be fired?  All this when the truth is that Trump in all likelihood won the election.

It is the perfect example of Orwellian speech.  In his classic essay “Politics and the English Language,” Orwell spoke of the condition where “words and meaning have almost parted company.”  If that “almost” is a measure of Orwellian speech, then today’s Democrat leaders are beyond Orwellian.  Their words and meaning have parted company entirely.

As Orwell also stressed, the decline of language is both cause and effect of the decline of politics.  When politicians and media begin speaking nonsense, it is the symptom of an underlying corruption of political thinking.  The idea that the president should be removed from office for having defended the electoral process is truly bizarre, but it has been repeated throughout the liberal media and by most liberal politicians and even by some conservatives.

One might say progressives like Nancy Pelosi have become “unhinged,” but that would let them off the hook.  It would suggest that they don’t quite realize what they are doing.  But what they are doing is the result of crafty political calculation.  They want to tie President Trump with the Capitol violence to the point that he can never run again.  The same political deviousness lies behind suggestions that he should not be in control of the nation’s nuclear arsenal because of his supposed mental instability.

US Media: ‘Telling China’s Story Well’ by Judith Bergman

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16885/us-media-china

“If foreign audiences know that a piece of information comes from an official Chinese media source, they are likely to interpret it as ‘propaganda’ rather than ‘news,'” wrote China expert Anne-Marie Brady in 2015…
Fortunately for the CCP, China could rely on large segments of mainstream US media to help it….
The CCP evidently knew the West well enough to calculate that framing the debate [on the coronavirus] in terms of racism would be a highly successful strategy that would play into the divisive issue of identity politics in the US and Europe.
The CCP could not have done it, however, without the media’s lack of critical judgment of China’s behavior, as well as the media’s utter lack of interest in the CCP’s quest for global domination and, according to FBI Director Christopher Wray, its willingness to achieve it “by any means necessary.”

One of the foremost tasks of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under Xi Jinping is, at his directive, to “tell stories about China well and spread China’s voice well; enable the world to see a multidimensional and colorful China; present China as a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and an upholder of international order”.

When the coronavirus pandemic broke out in December 2019 in Wuhan and the Chinese authorities allowed it to spread to the rest of the world, “telling China’s story well” suddenly became an acute concern. It was necessary to save the regime’s face, deflect blame and seek to portray China as heroically battling the pandemic, instead of the reality of having caused it. China went into an even more energetic propaganda mode than usual, seeking to control the narrative about the virus at every turn.