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We analyzed, minute by minute, the crucial two-hour period during which a Trump rally to stop the certification of the election results gave way to a mob that nearly came face to face with Congress. Here’s what we found: https://t.co/HSsHQLiEpp pic.twitter.com/AC9HgwQqbO
— Haley Willis (@heytherehaIey) January 12, 2021
This is a thread from the NY Times which provides a timeline of January 6. These are the same people who put together the Kyle Rittenhouse timeline that shows it was self-defense, showing that someone is able to do actual investigative journalism at the NY Times and present the facts without judgment.
Inflaming emotions isn’t a crime. The president didn’t mention violence, much less provoke it, writes Jeffrey Scott Shapiro https://t.co/bMLW2hmNgA
— WSJ Editorial Page (@WSJopinion) January 12, 2021
This comports with my view that the President’s speech does not constitute “fighting words,” let alone incitement.
Apple is demanding that Parler be held responsible for the content posted by its users OR it will take it off iOS
So basically Apple is demanding that Parler waive its section 230 protections while lobbying to maintain its own 230 privileges
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) January 9, 2021
Combined, Google and Apple control 99.9% of the American mobile OS market
If they kick you off their app stores you are done
But don’t worry the free market can totally solve for that 🙄
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) January 9, 2021
Do we have a free market in this space? In any space?
Our institutions have failed us, and I don’t see them getting better. The media is fomenting division, and has lost all credibility. Our politicians are choosing to energize their base / the extreme elements of their parties, rather than trying to find common ground. The Biden, but especially the Harris speech yesterday showed that they aren’t interested in unity.
I will wait and see regarding why Congress was stormed, and who brought lead pipes and hit a Capitol Officer with a fire extinguisher. I want evidence, not the knee jerk accusations of the media or the defenses proffered by the organizers. I believe that the main Stop the Steal organizers acted in good faith, but that they should have anticipated that agitators would take advantage of the situation and worked to stop it. The President should have anticipated this as well, and been very clear that no violence would be tolerated.
What is the path forward? I believe we need to de-politicize the media, and we need social media to figure out a more even-handed means of moderation. There’s a saying that politics ruin everything, and we’re seeing that play out right now. Everything is viewed through the lens of politics, and as a result, people pick and choose their tribe and engage in a severe form of tribalism we haven’t seen in a long time. Our media is an extreme for of this. Journalists no longer investigate, they form narratives and try to find evidence for their narrative. Here’s an example:
MUST WATCH: @RosaFlores
asks the Governor of Florida about the vaccine rollout but Ron DeSantis fires back pic.twitter.com/8PxJUA99Lh— LaRell CNN (@LaRellCNN) January 5, 2021
I chose a more neutral tweet about this incident. A few things: 1) the reporter could have easily asked the officials in the various counties why senior citizens were waiting in line… you know… doing journalism; 2) Desantis is correct that her main question was why are there problems and the answer is high demand; and 3) the part of the question she wanted was basically a no-win question that is completely improper for a journalist… trying to get Desantis to say that Florida doesn’t have a plan (which is false). But this played out in a polarizing way on Twitter, because the journalist then made this about herself “getting bullied” by Desantis. Desantis could have been better about answering, “Look, our state’s plan is to get this vaccine to as many people as possible, but if you look at each county’s plan, some of the counties haven’t made good distribution plans, and we’re doing what we can to maximize vaccinations without micromanaging them.”
But our media / journalists are no longer journalists. They’re propagandists pushing an agenda, with no in between. There are no more Jim Lehrers. For example, do you know who Roy Ball is? Twitter does.
The man in the photo is intervening to defend the black woman and get her to safety. The woman herself confirms this. @tariqnasheed and others on the Left are lying about him, and he has now lost his job because of their defamation. https://t.co/1H1LYhPUZT
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) January 8, 2021
Now there’s additional video of him yelling at another woman during the rally. As far as I’m aware, the rally in Los Angeles got heated, and there were several incidents (and the incident involving the woman he’s holding may have been a mistaken identity that lead to something a lot worse). Still, journalists and celebrities immediately called for his firing, were successful, and have not apologized or acknowledged that they jumped to a conclusion based on a photo and a bunch of tweets. We live in a mob-rule society where anyone can have the mob whipped into a frenzy against them at any moment for anything.
New study finds that being angry increases your vulnerability to misinformation. Angry participants "tended to be more confident in the accuracy of their memories. But among those participants, increased confidence was associated with decreased accuracy." https://t.co/2gbG5RMQ34
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) January 8, 2021
Not only is this perpetual state of outrage making us unhappy, it’s also affecting our ability to take a breath, wait for evidence, and then evaluate the evidence. The media and Big Tech are to blame, but they have no sense of self-awareness, and no incentive to self-correct (because the financial incentives are to continue pushing up engagement numbers and short term dopamine hits for clicks). What’s the way out? I’m not sure, other than we need to de-politicize everything.
Well, a couple things. 1) Israel basically said, old people first, but if the vaccine is about to expire, anyone can get it, and 2) governors / locals didn’t want to take the same approach. In fact, NY and CA both stated by executive order that there would be fines and license revocations for people who didn’t administer the vaccines according to schedule, then enacted all sorts of byzantine standards for administration. Add onto that licensing requirements, and boom, barely any vaccines get distributed.
The tranching out of covid vaccine has been disastrous. Here's what should happen immediately:
1. Stop stockpiling second doses. It's insane. More doses are coming, and the first dose provides some level of protection.— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 4, 2021
He’s right here. This is ridiculous. The more people, based on risk profile, vaccinated, the better. No dose should be wasted, and more vaccinations is better than no vaccination.
San Diego used to be a conservative / Republican town because of the heavy naval presence. Now it’s a battleground, with the school system getting rid of grades because they are racist?
As for why Seattle and Portland allow CHAZ related anarchy, it’s because their voting bases have elected explicitly anti-police leaders. They’ve changed the rules of engagement (with Ted Wheeler taking over the police department), and as a result, de-escalation and appeasement are the priority. What happens when you appease any group that wants to seize power? They seize more power. At some point, the neighborhoods demand eviction, and then a painful balancing / negotiation occurs.
Here’s a fun analysis of why this is all happening.
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) December 30, 2020
I'm not even mad, this is amazing pic.twitter.com/z4EsbnpNzL
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) December 30, 2020
It’s because journalists and activists are in their own self-justifying echo chamber.
Oh my lord has this tweet taken off. Allow me to clarify.
Pence was not wrong to say 2.1M ppl = millions. I shouldn't have said "not true." That's my bad.
I should have said "overstatement." The millions he's talking about is barely over 2M. Hence the link to CDC data.
Fin.
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) December 30, 2020
Come on everyone!
LET'S READ LINE 17 TOGETHER!
🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨 pic.twitter.com/MZPrLmv1HT— Elisha England🌟🌟🌟 (@elishaengland82) December 23, 2020
I’m assuming this is for staff salaries, not for Congress (they can’t raise their pay without an intervening election). But there’s a LOT of pork in this bill.
Back in the good ol’ days, the media would have been all over the pork, but today… they won’t report on it, leaving it for people to get outraged on Twitter (and some congressmen and congresswomen to tweet about it). They’re setting us up to accept “modern monetary theory” and make government such a large part of our economy, that politics will consume our lives.
Amazon inks lobbying deal with Ricchetti Inc., the firm co-founded by Biden's incoming White House counselor, Steve Ricchetti.
This is Ricchetti Inc's 10th new lobbying client this year. They had booked just 1 from '16-'19. https://t.co/Ttadt86Ddm
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) December 27, 2020
Huh. It’s as if big tech knows how a Biden administration will work. This lobbying firm is suddenly awash in clients.
How come so many huge corporations are hiring a previously obscure lobbying firm co-founded by the brother of a key Biden WH official? Does anyone have any speculation about why this might be happening? https://t.co/9hYkiRQdaG
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 28, 2020
Amazing.
The story is relevant to lame duck activity because 1) there’s a potential Special Counsel appointment, and 2) the difference in media coverage / high tech suppression of the story will demonstrate that the media and the tech companies actively interfered in an election. Furthermore, it looks like the media will basically take a nap for a few years as it takes PR / damage control narratives from the DNC.
[quote quote=4010]\I’m not sure what Hunter Biden has to do with this, but it is not surprising that his name gets dropped in a response to a thread about Trump. Can’t let an opportunity go by without mentioning Hunter Biden. [/quote]
Hunter Biden is accused of selling access and influence. Why is he relevant? Because he is accused of selling access to, and the influence of… Joe Biden. Not just selling access and influence, but selling access and influence to China, and committing actual interference with the Ukrainian justice system. There is evidence for this, and it was suppressed by the media and Big Tech.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Wisconsin_gubernatorial_election
I expect he will continue to work until the end. The media will make is seem like he’s doing all sorts of dirty deeds. I don’t think he’ll order the continued investigation of a political rival’s campaign. The political rival’s son, maybe, but not the political rival’s campaign.
When we elected Gavin Newsom, I told people why do we want to make the entire state San Francisco? If you get rid of the Electoral College, you can ask, “why do you want to make the whole country San Francisco (or New York City, or Los Angeles)?”
Oh, and there’s this:
This is making me a populist. Payments to people and small businesses (less than $2M annual revenue, willing to go a little higher), not luxury brands and restaurants.
Our media has lost the plot in terms of covering justice issues. It’s all partisan now. Bill Barr was the consummate professional. There is more evidence of a conspiracy to push the Russian Collusion narrative (created by the Clinton campaign and laundered through a willing media and the Deep State) than there is that Russian Collusion happened. It’s sad what the politicized media and the politicized bureaucracy can do to pull the wool over the eyes of the American people.
Remember the 50+ “intelligence professionals” who told you that the Hunter Biden story had “all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation” as soon as the Democratic party set the narrative and all the reporters (and Big Tech) suppressed the story? I’m glad those “intelligence professionals” are not in the business of analyzing intelligence anymore, as they have shown that they would rather put politics over country. F— them, and f— our media, who have become editorializing propaganda flacks for the Democratic Party, rather than even attempting to tell the truth to the American people.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/12/10/kate-bolduan-cnn-anchor-facts-first-sweater-air/
Liars, the whole lot of them.
Nice to see @politico catching up to the Hunter Biden scandal that they wrote off back in October.
A little too on the nose to use the same picture though, don’t you think? pic.twitter.com/AJnfSkFn6F
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) December 10, 2020
Facebook’s Andy Stone (former DNC staffer), Twitter, and Google all suppressed a story to favor Democrats. These are the same people complaining about money buying policy. Now they’re suppressing any claims of election fraud. Big Tech decided to join the enemy of the people with gusto. You wonder why right-leaning populism is in vogue? Silicon Valley and the main-stream media deciding that everything is political, and to become propaganda wings is the answer.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chinese-spy-eric-swalwell-cnn-broadcast-networks-ignore
SFGate covered the story with a summary. Unclear when other networks will begin covering this story. The media is so politicized that they cannot be relied upon to report news.
