Most Americans by now should know the name Sam Bankman-Fried and his company FTX. He and the entire Democrat establishment were engaged in a massively corrupt scandal that the mainstream media has worked overtime to hide from the public that subsequently blew up in their faces. Whether or not you know about this scandal, you will either for the first time learn about it or be updated as you read the dirty details here. And do not think about trotting out the trope the corrupt Democrats and their equally corrupt media partners proclaim that the 2020 election was the most fraud free and cleanest in history... It was, as we all now know, an unmitigated disaster which is still unfolding...
Quote: "The Media Undertakers Must be Getting Exhausted. The media worked hard to bury the FTX scandal. There [is[ a young (but well-connected to leftist politicos and media) tech slob Sam Bankman-Fried “lost” eight billion dollars, shelled out at least $40 million to Democrats, is suspected of laundering a lot of taxpayer money through Ukraine, and cloaked his outrageously criminal conduct in the garb of promoting social justice once he realized he could no longer disguise his Ponzi scheme.
The gravediggers hardly had begun to return their shovels to the cemetery shed when there appeared a new story that needed burying. Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi just opened up another crack in the door revealing how outsiders along with the DNC manipulated Twitter in the runup to the election. Not that the shadow banning and actual banning on Twitter of conservative voices wasn’t obvious before, but Musk is inside the belly of the beast and proof of the outrageous behavior at Twitter which preceded his purchase is now being made public, with Musk promising there’s more to come.
Twitter staff and executives used barriers designed to combat spam and fraud to manipulate speech that was neither. Even worse, outsiders, including the DNC with connections to these insiders, used these tools to control what people could post and viewers could read, even going so far as to censor items transmitted on the direct message (private person-to-person) feature of the site. In effect, well-connected private parties (almost exclusively Democrat) could and did remove posters.
Among the stories Twitter actively blocked was that of the salacious Hunter Biden laptop contents. So shocking was the material on this laptop, so revealing of the perversity of Hunter and the corruption of Joe Biden, that one post-election survey reports that 16% of persons who voted for Biden said they would not have had they known of the contents of this laptop. One major newspaper, the NY Post, did publish a story about it, and several online posters did as well. The most detailed, should you care to see for yourself what was on the laptop, is here.
The laptop reveals not only sexual depravity and illegal drug use, but corruption and influence buying as well. Taibbi reports “Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be ‘unsafe’.” The only person it was unsafe for was Joe Biden, the Democrat party’s presidential candidate.
Even then, White House spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany was locked out of her account for tweeting about it. Several insiders questioned what was going on and received the untrue defense that the material was removed because it violated the company’s “hacked materials” policy. The laptop was never hacked. It was abandoned by Hunter, then was unlocked while in the possession of the NY Post, and it and its contents are authentic. At any other time in history of which I am aware such a scandal would have been front-page news in the weeks preceding an election.
In 2020 Twitter and the mainstream media decided that was not to be the case when the scandal clearly would impact the Democrat candidate. The key player in this was the formerly richly compensated, now fired, Twitter head of legal affairs, policy, and trust, Vijaya Gadde. Apparently, CEO Jack Dorsey was never even informed.
No one at Twitter had the guts to reverse Gadde’s deceitful partisan power play. So, as one might expect in a bureaucracy, they just shut up and went along with it, despite even Ro Khanna, Democrat congressman, expressing concern that this autocratic, unwarranted censorship was creating backlash on the Hill. While Gadde was born in India, she was raised and educated here, is a lawyer and should, but evidently does not, have some idea about the scope of the First Amendment. Ro tried in vain to explain to her hat even had the laptop been hacked the story should not have been blocked.
“A journalist should not be held accountable for the illegal actions of the source unless they actively aided in the hack.” Other Democrat congressmen thought this was fine and dandy and said they want even more “moderation,” by which, of course, they mean censorship of facts and views not in their interest.
Of course, if Twitter had merely determined on its own not to allow certain views, there would be no justiciable claim of a constitutional violation. But here’s the problem -- it appears that the censorship was being done on orders from the government to suppress speech.
Now you’d think this was a big story and would garner attention on the front pages of the Washington Post and New York Times. You’d be wrong -- the Fourth Estate biggies apparently like suppression of dissent and are happy to keep their readers from knowing what Taibbi reported.
Charles Lipson posted those papers’ front pages -- nothing there on this. He adds, “CBS News hopes to verify the Twitter release within 2 years.”
It was not only Twitter, certain congressional figures, and the DNC directing the control of information on Twitter. One FBI whistleblower has just testified that ”the FBI held weekly meetings with Big Tech companies in Silicon Valley ahead of the 2020 presidential election to discuss “disinformation” on social media -- muscling the tech firms to censor views and facts. It probably took little effort to get compliance, knowing how FBI Director Wray’s agency and Silicon Valley types share the same penchant for shutting up those not on the Left.
Blocking, banning, and shadow banning social media posters does not appear the end of it. As Julie Kelly reports in the context of the January 6 sound and light shows on the Hill and in the D.C. courtrooms, Attorney General Garland’s minions in D.C. are now criminalizing speech with which they disagree, charging the Oath Keepers with “seditious conspiracy” although there were no weapons on them, they were military veterans “most suffering various degrees of service-related disabilities,” and it’s certainly hard to see how unarmed individuals “without a single firearm or explosive device” could possibly meet the law’s test of conspiring “to oppose by force the authority of the Government of the United State, and by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States.”
In China, protestors against Xi’s absurd COVID lockdowns gather and hold up blank pieces of paper to protest the lack of free speech. What do we have to do? Confine ourselves on social media to cat and dog pictures and pretend we are having open dialogues on matters of interest to citizens?" The Media Undertakers Must be Getting Exhausted - American Thinker
This is a typical example of how dishonest, deceptive and left-wing oriented the massively corrupt mainstream media is. They refuse to recognize factual truths. But offer their left-wing biased opinions as fact in order to deceive the public. They do so all the time. They are in fact the propaganda arm of the Fascist/Marxist oriented Democrat party. It is so obvious that even a ten-year-old can see through the charade. How about you???
Quote: "The left-wing media refuses to admit this terrifying reality about political violence in America. Democrats and their allies in the press claim the Republican Party is full of domestic terrorists willing to use violence to achieve their goals. But reality tells a completely different story. And the left-wing media refuses to admit this terrifying reality about political violence in America.
Riots and looting erupted across the United States and went uninterrupted for several months during the summer of 2020. When the rioting finally ended, dozens of Americans were dead and over $2 billion worth of property was damaged or destroyed. But despite all of the chaos that filled the news each night during that summer, the left-wing media refused to hold the violent Black Lives Matter rioters accountable.
Not only did they refuse to condemn the violence, but they treated them as heroes bravely standing up and fighting against “tyranny.” And when left-wing protesters illegally gathered outside the homes of conservative Justices after a draft leak showing the Supreme Court was ready to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Biden administration and the media encouraged the illegal activity.
Ultimately, a Biden supporter was arrested for attempted murder outside the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and over 65 Crisis Pregnancy Centers were firebombed and attacked across the country.
Even though the media excuses left-wing violence, they’ve spent every day since January 6 calling Republicans domestic terrorists who threaten democracy in America. But now the radical left-wing pro-abortion group Jane’s Revenge is threatening to “shoot up” the space where Students for Life holds their meetings.
“Members of Students for Life Action said they saw the note taped to the front of the St. John Paul II Newman Center in Omaha, Nebraska on Saturday after they arrived to host its Nebraska Political Leadership Workshop,” Breitbart reported.
'The purpose of the workshop was to “strategize about how to use Students for Life’s Campaign for Abortion Free Cities to shut down Dr. Leroy Carhart’s infamous late-term abortion facility in the state and work towards the Sanctuary City Ordinance in Bellevue.”
The note directly threatened to murder pro-life individuals.“If our right to abortion in Bellevue is taken away due to the attempt to pass an abortion ban and it gets passed we will shoot up your Newman center with our new AR14 rifles (sic),” the letter read. “Sincerely, Jane’s Revenge.”
The Newman Center is located near the University of Nebraska-Omaha’s Scott Campus. According to public safety officers, they are working with Omaha police and the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office to investigate the “threat of violence.” The pro-life students said they will not be deterred by threats or intimidation tactics.“
This obviously causes us great concern,” Reverend Dan Andrews, the director of the center, said. “Our number one priority is the safety of our students,” he continued, adding that “we are thankful for UNO Police’s prompt response and attention to this threat.”
The media claims Republicans are violent extremists. But the evidence clearly shows this is a lie. The left-wing media refuses to admit this terrifying reality about political violence in America - Right News Wire
If anyone still believes that Facebook is not in league with our left-wing Fascist/Nazi/Marxist oriented Democrat party, consider this information. Way too many people across our nation are bringing back the disastrous era that gave rise to the Second World War. This is more proof that Left-wingers never, ever learn any lessons from history. You may well change your mind about what and who these people after reading this piece. It is proof that facts do not lie but the people who populate the political left lie with impunity. Don't believe me? Read this item. Way too many loyal Democrats all across our country are ignorant of just how anti-American and corrupt they are.
Quote: "FACEBOOK CENSORS FORBID DISCUSSION OF NAZI GERMANY – DANGEROUS AND IGNORANT. I was just restricted on Facebook. No surprise, much of Punching Bag content has been shadow-banned over the past several years. I can post a BS political meme and get tens of thousands of views, but an article on the issue with an identical theme might get a couple hundred. It is useless as a platform now.
I recently made a statement on Facebook about Mein Kampf, the book written by Adolf Hitler, the book that justified the Holocaust. The Facebook censors have decided that the contents of that book should never be spoken about, it is hate speech.
I’ve read it.
Before you form a picture of me carrying a copy around in my back pocket along with my little red book from Chairman Mao, you should know I do a lot of research in psychology, propaganda, mass influence, advertising, marketing, political science, social science and much more. In my office, I’m surrounded by more than 600 books in these areas, mine and from friends, and I’ve generated original research in this area. Not many have a better grasp of the subject, and my close circle of intellectual friends easily (and sadly) overwhelm the expertise of most university psychology departments. (You should see my friend George make a University professor wilt, it’s entertaining…)
I was inspired to read Mein Kampf by the watchwords of the Jewish community, one of the most powerful phrases in the world today.
“Never again.”
I believe that everyone should read Mein Kampf, especially those who are of Jewish descent. Not because it is some great philosophical work (it isn’t), but because it lays out the strategy that led to massive inhumanity, millions of people treated most brutally and callously possible. Ultimately 11 million innocent people (Jewish and others) were executed just because they were NOT Nazis.
Want to know the gist? Well, here it is.
Mein Kampf uses the basic techniques of marketing, capitalizing on several principles of influence outlined by Robert Cialdini’s Principles of Persuasion, notably “commitment and consistency.”
Talking about the Jews, it provides details about Hitler’s perceptions and why he believes they should be hated, in increasing severity. Many of these criticisms are valid, they are based in fact, like that the Jews are rich (some of them certainly were), they tend to do business within their community (like everyone else, especially then), and they are doing relatively well in a down economy while many others suffered. He hated them for that. He proceeds to talk about the comparative suffering of other people and how it bitterly affected his life, playing on some of the anti-Jewish sentiments in society at the time. Again, these are the facts and conditions in 1925 post-WWI Germany.
So you have statements A, B, C, and D, that are based in fact and undeniable in the context of the day. The book created a “commitment” in the people who read it, for those who accepted the statements up to that point. “Consistency” demands that you continue to follow the reasoning and gives you the desire to accept the conclusion (basic marketing doctrine).
If you keep an eye out, you can see this same technique in today’s advertising world. How many times have you watched a commercial and the conclusion was that the product would change your life, or something else outlandish that was not supported by the previous reasoning? If you happen to be following the disinformation about Trump, then you will easily see why the left hates him so much, the techniques are similar. It works, especially on the feeble-minded.
In the case of Mein Kampf (taking some liberties in the paraphrasing) he made a giant, sinister, disjointed jump: “Therefore… Jews are animals, they don’t deserve your sympathy, they must be removed from our society, kill them now.“
Now is the time to say “holy crap” or “WTF.”
This is the giant fraud, the massive leap into dislogic, the statement that cannot be justified by any of the previous statements. But remember, you and I are in 2022 America. If you are in 1925 Germany, perhaps you are experiencing suffering similar to his, looking for a scapegoat and you have spent time “committing” to the previous statements. The “consistency” part of the method forces you to suspend your normal ethics and common sense long enough to accept this logic as possible, to believe the conclusion because you have accepted all of the premises and have experienced a sequence of trusted steps – a moment of suspended reason, a tiny crack in a stressed ethical norm that allowed a dismissal of this insane connection.
Make no mistake, the people of Germany at the time were not monsters, and would never overtly accept this logic. There was an anti-Jewish sentiment, but mass murder was not in their character, not an inkling.
But neither were they strong enough or motivated enough to stop Hitler’s rise. Hitler was able to play on the reality of life in Germany and was accepted despite his psychopathic hate, known from Mein Kampf. That tiny crack allowed them to move the insanity to the back burner – not because they believed it, but because they were able to accept it, if only for a moment, despite its insane nature.
The totality of factors allowing Hitler to rise in Germany is beyond the scope of this article. But if you don’t study the history and ask the questions of how the Holocaust happened, how men who should have been strongly moral carried out the orders of Hitler to kill millions of human beings, then you will never see it developing.
And it will happen again.
The stupidity and ignorance of the Facebook censors have been well-documented by others. But this case may allow you to see the magnitude of the crime that is committed when foolish but powerful people attempt to control speech in the interest of tempering the conversation so that others will not be offended.
So what is the greater crime? Discussing an offensive topic, but one that might educate people as to how a horrific historic event happened? Or suppressing discussion of offensive but historically important material, with the excuse that some people might be offended?
My answer is simple, I only need to accept the logic, the mandate and the implied assignment of the following phrase.
Never again.
How can you prevent something from happening again, if you don’t know how it happened the first time?" Facebook censors forbid discussion of Nazi Germany – Dangerous and Ignorant - The Punching Bag Post
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