What the story is really about is not how the mainstream media sandbagged a story of national import in order to fluff Joe Biden and his campaign. The story is really about the inability of the Democrats to use social media in politics because they don’t need it as they control all the traditional media outlets. They attribute the right’s success, not to entrepreneurialism, and the fact that we believe in American ideals and not merely the raw exercise of power. Nowhere in the post do you find anyone who believes the left has the energy to do what the right has done despite the massive amounts of cash lavished on leftwing outlets. What you do see is the idea that if they can’t do it, then they need to use political power to kill off conservative media. //

This explains the massive investment the left has poured into “fact-checkers” that ensure nothing untoward gets circulated, like truthful material about the virus and information on the ongoing recount. It is pretty obvious that the message has been sent and received.

Shutdown DC, the same group that organized protests to “make sure Trump leaves the White House” by any means necessary after the Nov. 3 election and teaches people how to “punch a Nazi,” is assigning people on its email list to harass lawyers from one of the firms representing the Trump Campaign in election lawsuits. //

The email also brags that “public pressure works” after claiming that another law firm associated with the legal fights in key states, Porter Wright, “announced that they were dropping out of the post-election lawsuit they had filed for Trump in Pennsylvania.”

None of this is being hidden. Some of it is on video. And the national media are reporting that this is usual, that it is common for a tranche of 20+ thousand ballots to arrive without a single dissenting vote among them.

This is being done to win an election, for sure. But the larger message is “your vote doesn’t matter.” They want people in states and counties controlled by Democrats to know that no matter how many people vote, the decision has already been made. That they are adhering to that policy attributed to Josef Stalin, “It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes.”

Cruz is mostly interested in the saga of how Dorsey thought his company had the power to forbid Americans to share a couple of stories published by the New York Post detailing the hijinks of the on-going RICO violation that is the Joe Biden and his relatives and why they thought they had the right to lock a major newspaper out of its own account. Dorsey’s explanation of the so-called “hacking” rule is obvious bullsh**. If it had been invoked, nothing from Wikileaks would have been discussed. The clincher comes here when Dorsey says that Americans can share the New York Post’s reportage on the Biden family.

Dorsey claims that Twitter allows the New York Post stories on the Biden family financial shenanigans to be sent by Twitter because they made a bad decision, and being the adults that they are, they have rectified the error.

This was flagged immediately by Abigail Marone of the Trump campaign fast response team:

“Potentially harmful.” To Joe Biden and the Democrats.

Ted Cruz had it right in his opening remarks. Twitter poses a direct threat to our republic. Jack Dorsey is either a pathological liar or an out-of-touch dupe. In this case, it makes no difference. He lied to a senator in a public hearing.

This exchange between Trump and Lesley Stahl is insane. She repeatedly insists the Biden laptops “can’t be verified” so reporters shouldn’t talk about it.

Trump asks her why it can’t be verified.

Her answer: “Because it can’t be verified.”

Axios reported today that in spite of Facebook’s and Twitter’s attempts to censor the New York Post’s blockbuster story on Hunter Biden’s emails, the story was the most popular election story on their respective platforms last week.

The breakdown in the numbers is as follows:

-The Post’s story generated 2.59m interactions (likes, comments, shares) on Facebook and Twitter last week — more than double the next biggest story about Trump or Biden.

-5 of the 10 biggest stories were about the Hunter Biden story, the fallout, or how Facebook and Twitter reacted.

-It was the 6th-most engaged article this month, trailing pieces like Trump testing positive for COVID-19 and Eddie Van Halen’s death.

-83% of the interactions happened on Facebook, with the other 17% on Twitter.

Vox.com’s Aaron Rupar is one of the left-wing website’s more prominent tweeters, frequently posting video snippets from President Trump’s speeches, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s press briefings, etc. in which he takes what they say out of context.

What’s especially bad about the way Rupar operates is that his bogus descriptions of what’s said in the clips are often retweeted uncritically by mainstream media journalists and Democratic politicians alike, who don’t bother to actually watch the videos or ask about context.

This is how fake news often spreads and goes viral. I’ve documented several instances here, of Rupar getting away with this cheap, dishonest tactic. But on Monday, Rupar posted a video and interpretation of a Trump quote that was so mangled and deceitful that even CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale took time out of his 24-7 Trump-bashing to call him out: //

Daniel Dale
@ddale8
For people retweeting without watching the full clip: this quote was not a Trump corruption admission. It was him being defensive about Biden outraising him - saying he COULD easily raise tons of money if he wanted to call up CEOs and make corrupt bargains, but he won’t do that. //

Daniel Dale
@ddale8
For those asking (@waltshaub), here's the full transcript of Trump's remarks about Exxon and fundraising. Again, the clip that's circulating has a misleading caption; Trump's point was that it compromises a president to make personal fundraising calls to big CEOs, so he won't.

He confirmed to the undercover journalist that he’s trained Chinese workers in China to do this for several companies, including Google and FitBit. Okay, that — right there — gives me the creeps.

And though Lakhkar appears to not hold to a specific, political view, his words don’t leave any room for interpretation, when he says Google “is the worst” company he’s ever worked for, “when it comes to, like, following the leftist agenda… Your opinion matters more than your work.”

A Christian can believe that homosexuality is wrong and that the lifestyle should not be engaged in. They can also love anyone who is LGBT as they would love anyone else. The rejection isn’t of the person, it’s of the action. As Pratt said, we are commanded by Christ to love one another. While Christ makes it clear that we’re not to engage in sinful behaviors ourselves, loving the person while rejecting the sin can happen simultaneously.

We, as Christians, do not make the sin and the person the same entity. They are separate things. A person may choose to reject his sin and ask Christ to take it from him. When Christ does, the entire person isn’t scrapped.

This makes Christians a rather friendly group who rejects the idea of hatred of an individual based on their sins. Christians reject homosexuality in the same way they reject thievery, lying, and adultery. At some point, everyone sins, and everyone, if asked, is forgiven. The vast majority of Christians still have homosexual friends while not condoning or participating in the lifestyle.

The hard-left doesn’t seem to have this ability to disagree or reject a lifestyle while still maintaining a friendship or loving the person while not participating in the idea they oppose. To them, being a Christian is intolerable and thus must not only be rejected, but anyone who is one must be canceled.

No idea can thrive but theirs. So they let their hatreds and intolerances run wild. They make false claims about individuals or institutions, accuse of their opponents of pure evil, and destroy the lives of whoever they can if they keep to it. Even if they don’t just being friendly with someone who believes in Christianity may get you canceled as well.

The real bigots here aren’t the Christians…it’s the hard left.

Now, White House advisor Scott Atlas, who is a major player on the coronavirus task force, has been banned from Twitter for sharing an inconvenient truth. You see, he dared to suggest that masks are not magical strips of cloth that forever protect one from all ailments, but rather they should be used in ways that actually have some scientific backing.

Atlas had also tweeted out links to various studies backing his point, including the most recent guidance from the all knowing WHO, an organization that Twitter claims as authoritative when it meets their narrative.

when they call it a “Woman’s March” what they really mean is a leftist festival, it’s not open to or welcoming of people on the right. //

Also it’s not something that media will ever point to as a “super spreader” event, since they agree with its political purpose.

But the purpose or focus of the leftist march today was against the confirmation of a woman to the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett. Imagine women who claim to support women arguing against the confirmation of a woman, because she politically disagrees with them. //

Carrie Lukas
@carrielukas
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Oct 17, 2020
Free speech for me but not for thee: BLM blasting music to drown out pro-ACB event. #ImWithHer //

Carrie Lukas
@carrielukas
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Oct 17, 2020
Women's March protestors now surrounding ACB confirmation rally, screaming "RBG" and intent on shutting down any alternative speakers. This is the "tolerant left," folks. //

Carrie Lukas
@carrielukas
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Oct 17, 2020
Now protestors storm the stage, shut down event.

Twitter suspended the Trump campaign’s account Thursday after the social media team posted a video that labeled Joe Biden a liar for his dishonesty about his knowledge of his son’s business dealings, which the New York Post revealed on Wednesday after obtaining a copy of one of Hunter Biden’s alleged hard drives.

“Twitter has suspended ⁦@TeamTrump for posting a video calling Joe Biden a liar who has been ripping off our country for years, as it relates to the ⁦@nypost article. 19 days out from the election,” wrote Mike Hahn, Director of Social Media for the Trump campaign.

The group then turned to the nearby Abraham Lincoln statue, pulling it to the ground at 8:59 p.m. Spray-painted on the base of the statue was “Dakota 38,” a reference to 38 Dakota men executed after the Dakota-U.S. War of 1862 in the largest mass execution in a single day in American history. (Lincoln commuted the same sentence, handed down by a military tribunal, for 265 others.) //

The rioters continued down Southwest Fifth Avenue where they smashed storefront windows for seven blocks, punishing all those people who checks notes exist.

perhaps the biggest abdication of Wallace’s duty involved the very beginning of the debate. Biden was asked if he supports packing the court, one of the most damaging, consequential possibilities in modern American history. When Biden refused to answer the question, Wallace simply moved on. When Trump tried to press, Biden told him to shut up and Wallace just let it happen. It was astonishing to watch.

Now, the video clips have been edited and you can see exactly how incredibly out of line he got throughout the proceedings if you were lucky enough to have not watched yourself. From refusing to press Biden on key questions to ending debate altogether when it might benefit Trump, there was no mystery about whose side he was on.

Credit to Greg Price over at The Daily Caller for putting this together.

The progressive left is so allergic to opposing views that they will even avoid having to engage with people on their side who don’t quite follow the prevailing narratives of the day. Their propensity for avoiding dissent is evident in the case of Glenn Greenwald, who stated that far-left news media outlet MSNBC has prohibited him from appearing on its network.

Out of the clear blue sky yesterday, a Democrat lawyer emailed this one-liner to a China newsgroup list in reply to an article posted by the moderator on a report in the Korea Times that a reservoir dam that provides the hydroelectric power for the North Korean nuclear complex at Yongbyon had been breached:

THIS is what a real leader, a real President, a real American and a real man would do. //

However, that one-liner served as the equivalent of a red flag to a bull, and I responded as follows:

No, that’s not the way it works. One would think that you as a lawyer would know better, but then you unmasked yourself as a Democrat hack by implying that President Trump isn’t a “real leader, real President, a real American, and a real man.” And in reply to an article that was posted to the group that had nothing to do with the US Supreme Court, no less. Your gratuitous one-liner requires a detailed response:

The political divisions that existed during the Eisenhower era were kindergarten squabbles compared to today’s political chasm. For example, I don’t recall Democrat-condoned/instigated rioting and anarchy in the streets in the ’50s. Nor do I recall the Truman administration working to undermine Eisenhower’s campaign and presidency through the equivalent of an illegal counter-intel investigation and Russian and Ukrainian hoaxes, either.

There is NOTHING in the Constitution requiring a “political balance” in the USSC.

There is an interesting graphic going around on Twitter. It appears to portray the levels and activities of civil uncoupling before open guerrilla warfare breaks out and we have a full-blown revolution happening. Here is the Tweet and the diagram.

This pic.twitter.com/ZWgWcO1rnA

— R.J.C. (@RJC_1776_USA) September 25, 2020

You can see the pyramid has multiple levels showing activities that take place before there is an open, armed revolt against the constituted government. /)

Back in the day, I used to teach this at the JFK Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg. One thing that has stuck with me since that brief time in my life is a very hard truth and its even harder analog. The hard truth is that before the first guerrilla picks up a gun and kills a police officer or Soldier, the revolution or precursors to it, have been going for at least 10 years prior. Of course, the analog to that says that once you’ve defeated the insurgency, killed, captured, or jailed the leaders, there is still a decade or more of work to do to get back to a condition of popularly supported stability.

Over the next few days, we’ll explore the USASOC graphic. We will talk about what is happening and the part these activities play in a successful insurgency. As we all know, You can’t tell the players without a scorecard. To get at that info, we’ll rely on a bit of Latin, cui bono? Who benefits?

I find it very funny that they spent many hours four years ago mocking conspiracy theorists on the right who thought Obama might try to pull this stunt, only to themselves start believing the same conspiracy theory about Trump.

That they routinely allow Trump to tweak them is a testament to how broken they’ve become over his presidency. There is no reason to believe that he could actually pull something like this off, yet they never fail to take the bait and lose their minds simply because he won’t say he would step down peacefully.

And you know what? He shouldn’t have to say it. It shouldn’t be a question he’s asked. There is no reason to actually think he would reject the election’s results. The Democrats have spent the last four years rejecting them with no criticism from the media, but if Trump doesn’t say outright he’ll accept them, then clearly he’s planning a coup.

That’s insane.

What conservatives oppose is top-down authority-powered pseudo-progress. The kind that liberals are trying to invent right now in Seattle, as they propose to “re-envision the way we handle public safety” to fix methods of policing that they consider “broken.”

What liberals don’t get is that conservatives don’t oppose progress, we just don’t believe that humans are all that good at making it happen. It seems obvious to us that humans advance by trial and error, in small increments. We try things. Most things we try don’t work, at least not as well as we’d hoped. But a few do. Those we keep. The others we toss over the side. People copy good ideas from each other, and they warn each other about the ideas that went bad. To our minds, this is how progress happens. It bubbles up from the bottom in what the Quality Assurance fraternity calls “continuous improvement.”

What we don’t get is why liberals fail to notice that virtually all of their Great Leaps Forward that are carefully planned by Smart People Wearing Suits, and then executed by government, either waste vast resources without accomplishing anything or waste vast resources while making things worse. //

Law enforcement has a long history in our culture. Our word sheriff is a contraction of the Old English ‘shire reeve’, a local official responsible for property management, supervising peasants, and so on.

Shire reeves were already common in England before the Norman Conquest. What this means for us is that today’s modern police force — the way it’s organized, the way it operates — is something that millions of humans have contributed to, thought about, puzzled over, worked on, and improved via trial and error for a thousand years. This is not a good place for liberals to go looking for improvements by starting over, by “re-envisioning” how we do things, from the top down.

The liberals on the Seattle City Council will not care. They won’t be deterred no matter what we tell them. Liberals never have any respect for the people who came before, who worked the problems, who tried and failed and tried again, to produce the methods we use every day and now take for granted. They always think they are so smart that they can start over and do it better.