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-Great Cultural Revolution
Minnesota Nice
[Redstate] It’s not just Cardin. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) also ventured down that dangerous path when she went on "Meet the Press" on Sunday. She was speaking about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and called on changing it so that the government could go after "misinformation."

Democrat Senator Amy Klobuchar endorses subjecting social media companies to "hefty lawsuits" to force them to "do something" about misinformation.

"You can amend it and focus on certain kinds of speech misinformation, disinformation," Klobuchar asserted.
Make that title "Minnesota Lice
Posted by: Mercutio || 01/03/2023 08:21 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "I am the beginning, the end, the one who is many. I am the Borg."
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/03/2023 10:24 Comments || Top||

#2  You can’t change the Act to do that, you have to Amend the Constitution.
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/03/2023 14:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Glenmore, the Constitution was written by a bunch old white slave holders. It is irrelevant today.
/sarcasm, if you haven't already figured it out.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 01/03/2023 14:53 Comments || Top||

#4  the government could go after "misinformation."

Since we now know it was the government which engaged in 'misinformation' about the Hunter Biden laptop, you are certainly within the powers of Congress to go after the perps. Till then, buzz off.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/03/2023 15:35 Comments || Top||

#5  “ Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party. ”
George Orwell, 1984 (1949)
Posted by: JHH || 01/03/2023 19:03 Comments || Top||


Facebook set to decide whether Trump can return
[IsraelTimes] Meta could follow Twitter’s lead and let former US president Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
back on Facebook and Instagram, according to the Financial Times.

The decision is expected later this month, the report says.
Whatevs. President Trump hasn’t gone back to Twitter, so why should he gift “Meta” with the advertising dollars that result from his participation?
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/03/2023 01:16 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More likely a business R.O.I. logic review

Trump = More Viewers, and some initial AD drops.

Will more Viewers = more Clickbait revenue and out weight initial Ad Drops?

Meantime, with FB wanting to decide, Trump is using other Social Media sites and causing a potential revenue stream $$$ loss for FB.

BTW: FB.META Stock down from $183.09 Jul 20 to $120.34 (Dec. 30)
Since becoming Meta, Facebook’s parent company has lost US$650 billion in market value.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/03/2023 7:02 Comments || Top||


#3  See: The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/03/2023 9:47 Comments || Top||

#4  How long must they deny this innocent man access to Candy Crush?
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/03/2023 10:21 Comments || Top||

#5  why would he return?
Posted by: 746 || 01/03/2023 10:28 Comments || Top||

#6  According to various sites I won't read or link to, he's talking third party run. The True Believers™ can't see that the only reason for him to do it is to have prexident erect Kamala-lala-ding-dong guarantee him a harrassment free retirement.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/03/2023 10:30 Comments || Top||

#7 
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/03/2023 10:31 Comments || Top||

#8  He'd be a fool to go back.
Posted by: Angstrom || 01/03/2023 11:34 Comments || Top||

#9  Who cares? Facebook is dying anyway
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/03/2023 12:20 Comments || Top||

#10  Zuckerberg might be afraid that Klobuchar is gonna sue him.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/03/2023 12:35 Comments || Top||

#11  Who cares. Zuck is a democrat cuck...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 01/03/2023 17:59 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Joe Biden plans White House event marking January 6 attack
[Jpost] Friday's event will mark a rare moment for Biden to wade into the live issues stoked by the deadly riot by supporters of former President Donald Trump.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/03/2023 08:46 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Jan 6 will become a holy day for the left.
Posted by: lord garth || 01/03/2023 12:09 Comments || Top||

#3  A leftist holiday to bask in the successful completion of their coup...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 01/03/2023 12:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Echoes of the Reichstag Fire, serving the Puppet Show in exactly the same way.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/03/2023 12:47 Comments || Top||

#5  "Joe Biden plans White House event milking January 6 attack"

There - that's more like it!
Posted by: Raj || 01/03/2023 12:51 Comments || Top||

#6  I guess we can’t celebrate Joan of Arc’s birthday anymore.
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/03/2023 14:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Ray Epps attorney is ex-FBI.
Ray Epps wife works for Dominion.
The Democrat False-Flag Pipe-Bomber was never found.
~65% of Proud Boy leadership were CIs.
Who flew in the Azov Ukrainian Speakers?
Who unlocked the Capital Doors?
Posted by: mossomo || 01/03/2023 15:06 Comments || Top||

#8  Biden and Kamala will publicly commit seppuku?
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/03/2023 15:42 Comments || Top||

#9  [adds "wearing Mishima uniform" to mental list of things Don would do better than Joe]
Posted by: Butch Grealing6607 || 01/03/2023 21:33 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Justice Department is concealing 400 pages of 'sensitive documents' laying bare payoffs and gifts to Hunter and Jim Biden from China, Russia and Ukraine - after acknowledging the records exist - lawyer claims in suit
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Colorado lawyer Kevin Evans sued the Department of Justice in March after it failed to comply with his request for records on the Bidens' business dealings

  • Evans asked for documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

  • He requested information regarding 'any relationship, communication, gift(s), and/or remuneration in any form' between Bidens and China, Russia or Ukraine

  • He said government lawyers first admitted in court to having at least 400 pages of 'potentially relevant' documents

  • Evans claims the DoJ are now trying to get away with saying they can 'neither confirm nor deny' the existence of any records that match his request
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/03/2023 00:20 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Isn’t this the point where somebody gives us the Russian disinformation line?
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/03/2023 10:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Have they ordered enough black ink to redact all the national security issues?
Posted by: Bobby || 01/03/2023 16:31 Comments || Top||


Yes, Virginia, General Mark Milley Committed Treason
In which Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft waxes hysterical about the new book by Bob Woodward and Bob Costa that lays out in somewhat more detail than was originally reported at the time how General Mark Milley and his team viewed themselves as a Praetorian Guard acting behind the back of President Trump — hiding the nuclear codes and assuring Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as well as Chinese officials that Trump would be prevented from waging a surprise attack — then defied incoming President Biden by refusing to organize the ordered withdrawal from Afghanistan.
[GatewayPundit] Gen. Mark Milley Hid Nuke Codes from Trump – Held Secret Calls with Chinese Defense Officials – Then Surrendered to Taliban and Armed Them with $80 Billion in US Weapons

According to the book “Peril” written by Bob Woodward, General Mark Milley, the Joint Chiefs chairman, told China in a secret phone call that he would give advance warning if the US was ever going to attack.

“In a pair of secret phone calls (Oct. 20 and Jan. 8), Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assured his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the PLA, that the U.S. would not strike, according to the new book written by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward and national political editor Robert Costa.

On January 8, 2021, the same day Milley reportedly spoke to China in a secret phone call, CNN ran a story claiming Pelosi had gotten assurances from Milley there are safeguards in place in the event President Trump wants to launch a nuclear weapon.

According to Fox News, 15 people were present when Milley called China on teleconference in October 2020, which was coordinated with then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s office (Trump eventually fired Esper).

Milley released a statement through a spokesman that confirmed the reporting in the book Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa that stated Milley had two conversations with his counterpart in the Chinese military that undermined President Trump.

Christopher Miller, Trump’s Acting Secretary of Defense from the 2020 election through Inauguration Day, called Milley’s phone calls an “unprecedented act of insubordination” in a statement to Fox News.

On Monday Robert Costa reported that Milley told Speaker Pelosi that he agreed that Trump was crazy and he reassured the Speaker that the nuclear codes were safe.

It was the final coup against Trump involving the DOJ, FBI, US Military, Pelosi and Democrats.

Just months later General Mark Milley surrendered to the Taliban and armed the terrorist group with $80 billion in US weapons and supplies.
Posted by: Woodrow || 01/03/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  So when will he be arrested and charged?

OH! that's right, he must be a good little LSD / Pelosi puppet General.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/03/2023 7:18 Comments || Top||

#2  ....told China in a secret phone call that he would give advance warning if the US was ever going to attack.

That alone should be grounds for treason, or at a minimum, relief and discharge.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/03/2023 7:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Once Milley established that precedent, next step is an off the reservation general making a false warning to trigger a first strike by China.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/03/2023 7:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Technical question - if a serving member of the military commits treason, is he/she/xir shot or hanged?
Posted by: Mercutio || 01/03/2023 10:24 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Drowned in rotten fruit salad
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/03/2023 10:33 Comments || Top||

#6  He was is and always will be one of those generals that could care less about right and wrong, care even less about the constitution, the troops and the people he swore to defend, only caring about himself and his personal agenda. A narcissist and sociopath.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 01/03/2023 12:28 Comments || Top||

#7  My guess is he was not acting on his own but taking orders from the Politburo and they will make sure he is not prosecuted.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/03/2023 12:47 Comments || Top||

#8  The Hofts are often over the top but they are not wrong about this. Nothing will happen though. Precedent is scary, and one more reason for the Second Amendment.
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/03/2023 14:29 Comments || Top||

#9  Technical question - if a serving member of the military commits treason, is he/she/xir shot or hanged?

Apparently they get promoted to football mascot.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/03/2023 15:25 Comments || Top||

#10  Technical question - if a serving member of the military commits treason, is he/she/xir shot or hanged?

Retirement in London.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/03/2023 17:36 Comments || Top||



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