Tag: politics

  • Websites of chaos

    Websites of chaos

    News today.. TWITTER purged more than 70,000 accounts affiliated with QAnon… That’s quite a bit.

    We already know that included with that purge was the President himself.. While the decision to purge some extreme accounts has been applauded, others like Jim Cramer are noting how little they suddenly check Twitter. How … un-exciting it has become to just go to the site for sports scores again. Trump, Cramer said, was the draw. Without him the site will need to find another star–and their stocks did tumble.

    Since Twitter’s purge, Parler was shut down by app stores and eventually Amazon decided who gets to be on their vast internet servers. Again, applauded but a few, just a very few, are shocked that Jeff Bezos has that much power!

    And since this big ‘cleaning’ online, the following has happened:
    Rumors have persisted and rapidly been sent around the world that 1) the Pope was arrested during a blackout this weekend, 2) The Italian Prime Minister is in jail, 3) ATM machines all over the nation are not working and 4) Bible ‘experts’ all over were posting videos that they were given secret messages about the end times coming.

    Additionally, upcoming dates in January of armed mass protests were being planned, just as Congress plans the Impeachment sequel, almost a spinoff series at this point of the Trump Reality Show.

    So with all of these dangerous accounts gone, it seemingly became even more increasingly easy to spread misinformation for fun.

    I get the sense of quite a few users at 4CHAN having a blast with spreading the website “the conservative beaver” about the Pope’s indictment that your grandparents most likely have spread to their friends on Facebook..

    THE SCARY SIDE OF MAYHEM

    Parler was reportedly being used to help assist in planning chaos.. As a result, effectively all other businesses shut them down. There will undoubtedly be antitrust suits and allegations of corporate monopoly, but somehow life started to move so fast since 2021 began, it is difficult to keep up. And it makes you look old fashioned not to join along..

    Just a few news clips on Parler before proceeding:



    Right-wing app PARLER booted off internet over ties to siege…

    What Was Actually Being Allowed On Platform?

    Every Deleted Post Archived, Many With Users’ Location Data…

    Hackers Say Downloaded Everything Before Taken Offline…

    AMAZON hit with antitrust suit…

    FACEBOOK Removing All Content Mentioning ‘Stop the Steal’…

    Warns Employees Not to Wear Company Gear In Public…

    Meanwhile.. this from the FBI: All 50 states need to prepare for mass chaos. That’s right, all 50. Every capitol.. ABC says they obtained the memo and printed it for the world–but still no official in person press conference or statement from anyone in the FBI:

    The FBI has also received information in recent days on a group calling for “storming” state, local and federal government courthouses and administrative buildings in the event President Donald Trump is removed from office prior to Inauguration Day. The group is also planning to “storm” government offices in every state the day President-elect Joe Biden will be inaugurated, regardless of whether the states certified electoral votes for Biden or Trump.

    “The FBI received information about an identified armed group intending to travel to Washington, DC on 16 January,” the bulletin read. “They have warned that if Congress attempts to remove POTUS via the 25th Amendment, a huge uprising will occur.”

    Washington has suddenly become tense since January 6. The newest memo has added misery to the discomfort..

    The abrupt resignation of Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf added to the mounting tension in Washington ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration next week.. Wolf announced that “the evolving security landscape” had led to a decision to begin security for the inauguration on Jan. 13. The efforts were originally scheduled to begin on Jan. 19…

    ONLY HOURS TO GO UNTIL THE END OF THE TRUMP SHOW.. PEOPLE SUDDENLY ON PINS AND NEEDLES OVER WHAT THE CLIMACTIC SERIES FINALE WILL INCLUDE..

  • The Battle of the Don: Meet the Monsters on Capitol St

    The Battle of the Don: Meet the Monsters on Capitol St

    1/6/21 will be a new day of infamy..
    Some will defend it, some will say it was ANTIFA..
    Others will call it insurrection and treachery.

    Senator Tammy Duckworth, a Democrat from Illinois, told CBS News that a Senate staffer managed to secure the wooden chests containing the Electoral College certificates before senators were evacuated from the Senate chamber.

    Before the violence began a the Capitol, the President addressed a crowd of faithful at a “Stop the Steal” rally in DC that the media was at fault, that the election was stolen, and it was time to fight…

    Minutes later, as Trump went into his secure limo despite saying he would tell his supporters he would “walk down” with them, MAGA supporters began to break through police lines as storm the United States Capitol building.

    Images that graced us today included Trump supporters taking over the halls of Congress, sitting in the Speaker’s chair and posting for a photo, and even sitting in the offices of Congresspersons and rummaging through their paperwork.

    Among the harrowing moments: People scaling walls, a shooting, the floor of the Congress being attacked and guarded by a few armed security officials…

    Twitter deleted a pre-taped video of Trump telling people to “go home” and subsequently suspended Trump’s account for 12 hours.. many called for a deletion and more..

    While the Capitol was cleared late in the day of protesters, images of gallows erected near the building have become showcased online..

    For some, it feels like a new 9/11, a moment when the nation is shaken to its core..

    Gerald Seib writes,

    Never in recent memory have the events of a single 24-hour period so shaken two presidencies, the very Capitol of the United States and the nation itself as they did on Wednesday.

    The effects will ripple out for years to come, and the full consequences will be left for historians to sort out. It seems likely, though, that the chances that other Republicans will see Mr. Trump as the leader of their party after he leaves office have been diminished significantly. As Mr. Trump himself tried to remind his supporters after violence broke out, Republicans like to be seen as the party of law and order, and that is hardly the image he is now projecting.


    WE will all have to come to grips with this moment in time.. and with time comes perspective. While so many are quick to have an immediate reaction to moments in real time, at unique historical point like this, it is better to refrain from comment and final judgement.. as the historical events have yet to change and end.

    Joe Biden has been officially named the President Elect as of 4am today. But will he be the 46th president? Or 47th?

    Moments in time captured by screenshot and photographic evidence of anarchy at the nation’s capitol. The world watched, by the way. THAT should be as scary as what we saw yesterday.

  • Giuliani’s tuck and roll

    Giuliani’s tuck and roll

    Just as Rudy Giuliani gets himself entangled in the Hunter Biden scandal.. he gets himself tangled in a Sacha Cohen scandal and his shirt!

    But was he just tucking?

    Was he rolling?

    Scandal develops

  • Political stories to share in the dark

    Political stories to share in the dark

    Facebook and Twitter have both been accused of violating the first amendment rights of the New York Post by censoring an article that the post published referencing emails found about Hunter Biden.

    I would say you can go to Twitter or Facebook to find the article but you cannot. The article has been banned from being published, and the algorithms are even stopping private messaging from sharing the link to the New York Post.

    Instead you have to go about it the old-fashioned way and go directly to the post website itself.

    Meanwhile the potential issue of censorship has become a hot topic on Facebook, and Twitter. Users of both social media platforms are actively sharing the screenshots of the New York post main page about the boat and emails and protesting their right to share the link.

    Here is a great video to explain the background and aftermath

    Major media stars and also the president have weighed in on this on Facebook, and today Ted Cruz announced that subpoenas will be issued for Jack Dorsey a Twitter for him to appear next Friday under oath before the Senate Judiciary committee.

    In the meantime, CEO Jack opined on Twitter that the communication regarding the banning of the link was not handled very well.

  • Report: RUSSIAN HACKERS share personal data of almost every voter in Michigan, and a million more in Arkansas, Connecticut, North Carolina, and Florida

    Report: RUSSIAN HACKERS share personal data of almost every voter in Michigan, and a million more in Arkansas, Connecticut, North Carolina, and Florida

    This news developing in the Russian paper Kommersant

    Data reportedly appeared on the Darkweb thanks to a user named Gorka9.. Since then it is reported that Russian Internet users have shared the personal data of nearly every voter in Michigan (7.6 million of the state’s 7.8 million voters), as well as the information of another million voters in Arkansas, Connecticut, North Carolina, and Florida..

    Even more:

    According to Kommersant, the voter data was released online for free, but the newspaper says forum members apparently used the U.S. government’s own “Rewards for Justice” program to earn money on the stolen information by reporting the election interference to the State Department. One forum member told the newspaper that he received $4,000 for sharing a hyperlink with U.S. officials to the leaked database of Connecticut voters..

    BUT

    A spokesperson for the U.S. State Department told journalist Christopher Miller that the agency has yet to pay “any rewards from the August 5 Rewards for Justice announcement.”

    Another reporter tonight is calling it a nonthingburger at this point. .Kevin Rothrock writes, “Looks like the Kommersant story is mostly a nothingburger at this point, at least from a U.S. perspective. For Russianists, however, this is interesting insofar as (1) why did Kommersant run this story? and (2) what exactly are Russian hackers doing with these open-access data?”

    What is real?
    What is true?
    What is dark.

    DEVELOPING..

  • Bannon arrested

    Bannon arrested

    Slight political earthquake developing the day that Biden will give his nomination acceptance speech..

    Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has been arrested after being charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors.

    Drudge blared his siren to announce to the world..

    Drudge Report the morning of August 20 2020
  • The Unconventions of 2020: ratings sink

    The Unconventions of 2020: ratings sink

    Democrats began this year’s hot political season with a dull pre-taped snooze fest on the first night of their DNC convention. They will do this for the rest of the week. Republicans will join them next week.

    People are responding with……..snooze.

    Neilson states that 5.7 million people tuned in to the first night of the Democratic National Convention on the major broadcast networks, cutting the viewership of four years ago in half as the virtual event proved a tougher sell than the traditional live gathering.

    From 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. New York time, Monday’s convention debut drew 2.1 million viewers on Walt Disney Co.’s ABC, 1.9 million on Comcast Corp.’s NBC and 1.7 million on ViacomCBS Inc.’s CBS, according to Nielsen’s fast affiliate data. About 11.6 million people watched the first night of the event on those networks four years ago between 10 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., the website TV by the Numbers reported at the time.

  • SUNDAY MORNING LIVE: DONALD TRUMP ASKS IF THE FCC SHOULD…

    SUNDAY MORNING LIVE: DONALD TRUMP ASKS IF THE FCC SHOULD…

    SUNDAY MORNING LIVE: DONALD TRUMP ASKS IF THE FCC SHOULD INVESTIGATE SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE!

    The FEC examines improper campaign contributions while the FCC originated the fairness doctrine – a regulation that requires the news give equal time to both sides. However the doctrine was discontinued in 1987 and is no longer on the books. Additionally, when it was used by the FCC as a method of distributing television and radio licenses, it was found not to apply to elected officials.

    Also, ‘Saturday Night Live’ is a comedy show and its satire is protected free speech.

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  • Rep OMAR somewhat censured

    Rep OMAR somewhat censured

    RT:

    The House of Representatives adopted a resolution condemning all forms of bigotry (including anti-Semitism) after a long day of linguistic gymnastics that saw it morph from censuring Rep. Ilhan Omar to frowning on… intolerance. 

    The thrice-rewritten bill was barely recognizable as a rebuke of the alleged anti-Semitism of the Minnesota Democrat, instead bristling with denunciation of bigotry against every imaginable minority group in the US – a process that began when Omar’s supporters requested the language be modified to include Muslims 

    The final resolution veered close to self-parody after Democrats insisted Latinos, Asians, Pacific-Islanders, and LGBTQ people be added to the “traditionally persecuted peoples” list, pushing the vote back an hour on Thursday afternoon. Internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, and even the Dreyfus affair – which took place in 1800s France! – were name-dropped in the final version of the bill.

    Dems pass watered-down anti-hate bill, upsetting those thirsty for ‘anti-semitic’ Omar’s blood
  • Attention deficit democracy

    Attention deficit democracy

    The national mood is dark..

    Ever since that dreaded blood moon—oh and an meteorite hit the moon DURING THE TOTAL ECLIPSE that was seen from earth this weekend. .
    The Covington Catholic High School fiasco is a symptom of an even greater problem we face: WE have no time to get to know a story..let it develop..we judge quickly and hate even quicker when something newsworthy bursts open and makes the “viral” rounds..
    There are Hollywood stars and media moguls proclaiming that the children involved should be doxxed, that someone should put the young teens in wood chippers.. and that the school and teachers need to be “taught a lesson”—and Saturday Night Live ‘comedy writers’ saying they will give fellacio to whoever punches the MAGA teen.. 
    While the media and some stars had to back track on the video when MORE video and more information was released and known, others line just don’t care.. Everyone is dying to give their political view on the topic. They are spreading their hate on social media… on Facebook and Twitter we are developing into de-evolution..
    George Orwell wrote of a ‘Face crime” in 1984..This young teen, who now is taking to media to defend himself as his image has been spread around the world and his family and friends have been threatened with bodily harm.

    You can read the full report on what occurred somewhere—maybe you’ll get an unbiased report here or there.. All sources seem shaded just a bit towards their own side … their own political end game in mind..

    But in mind is how we are three seconds away from hate at all times on Twitter.. how people can make horrid comments about anyone at any time and call for violence.. Twitter may suspend some. But not all..and in the end the attention deficit democracy spreads far and wide.. with common sense, true journalism, and the dream of America falling by the wayside.
    We are divided. And when divided, much easier to be conquered…