Unhinged lefty protesters gave descended upon Washington D.C. and they gathered in Lafayette Park again, which is near the White House. Their goal: to topple the statue of Andrew Jackson, one of our finest presidents. Unlike other statues across the country, law enforcement moved in to prevent its destruction. Our own Julio Rosas had just hopped off a plane from Atlanta and quickly went to cover these antics. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt tweeted, “I just left Lafayette Square where another so-called “peaceful protest” led to destruction tonight. Let me be clear: we will not bow to anarchists. Law and order will prevail, and justice will be served.”
So let's be clear here folks. Those folks who use twitter to plan or promote events that quite literally are advocating breaking of laws are perfectly acceptable. On the flip side, twitter is censoring anyone who suggest that this lawlessness will be prevented?
“This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about abusive behavior. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible,” read the citation.
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| This tweet was temporarily censored, until twitter decided to put it back up |
I am no legal expert here, but it seems to me that twitter opens itself up for possible DOJ or Judicial action for this sort of behavior. While such "social justice" destruction might be popular in certain political circles, that doesn't make it legal and it doesn't make those in charge of upholding the law the bad people inciting violence.
Seems to me that if Twitter wants to allow criminal activity to be planned on their media platform, that would constitute aiding and abetting. But if they actively work against the actual law enforcement or others who are legally sworn to stop this, that makes them possibly even more legally suspect.
Twitter and others seem to be banking on the concept that public opinion will not stand for the atrocity of police or law enforcement actually preventing the law from being broken. I think ultimately they may be wrong, and even if there is a public opinion in favor, that doesn't change the laws that exist.
In this case, they reversed course and the President's tweet is back on twitter without any restrictions, as it should be. But I suspect it took a call from someone in the DOJ to let Twitter know that there are very real consequences for using a public platform to promote criminal behavior and violence and actively work against the very law enforcement tasked to prevent it.
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Twitter ramps up 2020 election interference by banning masterful meme maker Carpe Donktum
STATEMENT: https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1275605761566146561
Looks like the censorship war is on
Does Trump put his administration and perhaps the GOP itself in danger of being sued by holding campaign events which his own pandemic experts say are ill advised?
Question: Did those young people who gathered, mostly maskless, in the church also sign waivers that they or their families would not sue if they became sick or died due to contracting Covid-19?
Barack Obama explains why Democrats can’t afford to get smug about Donald Trump
HuffPost US
Jun 24th 2020 9:09AM
Former President Barack Obama on Tuesday warned Democrats against thinking they’ve already won the 2020 election.
“We can’t be complacent or smug or sense that somehow it’s so obvious that this president hasn’t done a good job, because look, he won once,” Obama said of President Donald Trump during a virtual fundraiser for and with the presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
"This is serious business,” Obama continued during the online event that raised a reported $11 million for his former vice president’s campaign.
“Whatever you’ve done so far is not enough,” he said. “And I hold myself and Michelle and our kids to that same standard.”
Obama, who endorsed Biden via video in April, warned that “just because this energy is out there, it does not mean that it assures our victory.”
He also acknowledged Biden’s campaign would look different to a traditional campaign amid the coronavirus pandemic that has now killed more than 120,000 people nationwide.
“Unlike our current president, we recognize that we have a public health crisis going on,” said Obama, an apparent reference to Trump’s decision to press on with hosting rallies against the advice of public health experts and as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases start to rise again in multiple states.
I proudly contributed to that event, and before I sent my contribution in 4 million had been raised. After I sent in my contribution, the amount soared to 11 million. I guess that's why Joe sent me his thanks for my "freakin'" great contribution, lol.
BUT THESE PEOPLE ARE THUGS
Madison protesters tear down Capitol statues, attack state Senator from Milwaukee as fury erupts again
Molly Beck
Lawrence Andrea
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
MADISON - Fury exploded outside the Wisconsin State Capitol on Tuesday night as protesters smashed windows at the statehouse, attacked a state senator, and tore down two iconic statues — including one of an abolitionist who died trying to end slavery during the Civil War.
The unrest began earlier Tuesday following the arrest of a Black man who was arrested after bringing a megaphone and a baseball bat into a Capitol square restaurant. It followed weeks of mostly peaceful protests of the death of George Floyd, a Black man who was killed by a white police officer.
It prompted Gov. Tony Evers on Wednesday to put the Wisconsin National Guard on notice to protect state buildings, including the Capitol.
During the melee late Tuesday, Democratic state Sen. Tim Carpenter was assaulted after filming the protesters.
"I don't know what happened ... all I did was stop and take a picture ... and the next thing I'm getting five-six punches, getting kicked in the head," Carpenter told a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter following the assault.
Evers said those responsible for assaulting Carpenter would be held accountable.
"I want to be clear: violence against any person — whether in the middle of the street in broad daylight, at home trying to sleep, going for a run, or happening upon a protest as was the case last night — is wrong," he said in a statement. "It should never be tolerated."
Protesters, chanting for the release of the man who'd been arrested earlier, also broke glass at the Tommy Thompson Center on West Washington Avenue, smashed windows and lights at the state Capitol, and set a small fire at the Dane County jail before police arrived just before 1 a.m.
The violent demonstrations followed the arrest of Devonere Johnson by Madison police officers after Johnson brought a bullhorn and baseball bat into Cooper's Tavern, a restaurant on the Capitol square.
"Officers attempted to place him under arrest for his actions inside the restaurant," the Madison police officers wrote in a report. "Johnson resisted arrest and struggled with officers ... Johnson was able to push past officers and escape from the squad car before being tackled as he attempted to escape."
The destruction followed similar incidents in cities nationwide following the death of Floyd in Minneapolis. But in other cities, statues of Confederate soldiers and other symbols of slavery were destroyed.
In Madison, statues of Wisconsin's motto "Forward" and of Col. Hans Christian Heg were dragged away from their spots guarding the statehouse.
Heg was an anti-slavery activist who fought and died for the Union during the U.S. Civil War. His nearly 100-year-old sculpture was decapitated and thrown into a Madison lake by protesters.
The original Forward statue was first placed in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol in 1895. Protesters tore down a replica that was commissioned in the 1990s.
Forward is "an allegory of devotion and progress," according to the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Madison Police Department said 200 to 300 protesters were within the crowd that ultimately became violent.
The group first entered a private condo building in Madison and surrounded a tow truck, forcing the owner to abandon the vehicle before smashing windows and tearing down the Capitol statues.
A molotov cocktail also was thrown into the Madison and Dane County administration building where the county jail sits.
Police used pepper spray from inside the state Capitol to repel protesters trying to get into the building, according to Madison police.
Tuesday night's violence drew the fury of the Republican leader of the state Assembly, who called the protesters who knocked down the statues "thugs."
"This is absolutely despicable. I am saddened at the cowardice of Madison officials to deal with these thugs," Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, tweeted as the statues were being torn down.
Vos also questioned why Gov. Tony Evers hadn't intervened in the destruction of the statues, given it took place on state Capitol property. Protesters also broke windows of a state building near the Capitol which houses the state jobs agency, among other state offices.
Spokeswomen for Evers and Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway did not respond to questions late Tuesday about police force's slow response.
After 1 a.m., a line of about 20 police officers stood in riot gear as a crowd of about 100 remained, breaking into occasional chants; police played a recording stating the gathering was unlawful and telling people to leave.
Tim Scott Targeted By Death Threats, Racial Slurs
Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott on Tuesday told his colleagues he has received a large number of death threats and phone calls with graphic racial slurs.
During Republicans’ weekly luncheon, Scott mentioned he has been getting a lot of calls with death threats and many racial slurs, The New York Times reported. Scott reportedly mentioned he had been called “Uncle Tim,” in one call and that the caller told Scott to “take your one-way ticket straight to hell.” Another caller reportedly talked about putting Scott “in his crosshairs.”
https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/23/tim-scott-targeted-by-death-threats-racial-slurs/
Dems are proudly racist against conservative blacks, black policemen, and black Republicans.
All blacks do not matter to them. At least not in a good way.
Finally, hopefully we get transparency in pricing, as I’ve always stated is necessary. This does more than anything in Obungholecare
Trump touts court ruling upholding push to require hospitals disclose secret rates
Thank you, Mr President
Well Reverend...
According to your side... the true criminals are those who are trying to stop the rioting and destruction.
Own it!
Trump’s Culture War Playbook Isn’t Working
Adam Serwer:
“Trump, first by embracing the ‘birther’ movement, and later as the candidate who promised to return the United States to an idealized past, successfully rode these backlashes to the White House. Four years later, Trump is hoping to ride the same wave of anger, fear, and resentment to a second term.
“There’s only one problem: His opponent is Joe Biden.
“For the past few months, Trump and the conservative propaganda apparatus have struggled to make the old race-and-gender-baiting rhetoric stick to Biden.
But voters don’t appear to believe that Biden is an avatar of the ‘radical left.’
They don’t think Biden is going to lock up your manhood in a ‘testicle lockbox.’
They don’t buy that Biden’s platform, which is well to the left of the ticket he joined in 2008, represents a quiet adherence to ‘Kenyan anti-colonialism.’
Part of this is that Biden has embraced popular liberal positions while avoiding the incentive to adopt more controversial or unpopular positions during the primary.
But it’s also becoming clear that after 12 years of feasting on white identity politics with a black man and a woman as its preeminent villains, the Republican Party is struggling to run its Obama-era culture-war playbook against an old, moderate white guy.”
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Nope. It ain't working. :-)
Obama VA in 2015: “Become a Kung Flu Fighter! Get Your Flu Shot!”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/obama-va-2015-become-kung-flu-fighter-get-flu-shot/
Having Biden as the opposition is a blessing, not problem. In 50 years in Washington, what has he actually done?
In 50 years in Washington, what has he actually done?
destroyed one USSC nominee for nothing, almost destroyed another, and grabbed a woman BY THE PUSSY.
oh, and been consistently wrong in every single policy he's proposed, both foreign and domestic.
Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
It's clear @twitter & @jack are engaging in a dedicated campaign to shutdown conservative voices as we get closer to the election.
Twitter claiming he violated "copyright infringement" on videos that are public domain or clearly parodies covered by fair use is beyond fraudulent.
rrb said...
Obama VA in 2015: “Become a Kung Flu Fighter! Get Your Flu Shot!”
somehow our ace press missed that.
Or if I went back and looked perhaps they praised him for raising awareness for flu shots.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kentuckys-primary-race-between-democratic-candidates-remains-too-close-to-call/vi-BB15UY4F?ocid=spartan-dhp-feeds
Wonderful video. Especially how it ends!
somehow our ace press missed that.
missed it? LOL. perhaps.
the DNC steno pool that calls itself journalists furiously try to disappear stuff like this like a cat covering a turd in a litter box. sometimes they miss one..
it looks like token wallence sucked all the oxygen out of the room.
Biden Holds Edge In North Carolina
A new Public Policy Polling survey in North Carolina finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in the presidential race, 48% to 46%.
Ohio Is a Battleground Again
A new Quinnipiac poll in Ohio finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in the presidential race, 46% to 45%.
Said pollster Tim Malloy: “You have to go back 60 years to find an election where Ohio was not a lynchpin or a pathway to the presidency. That is why this very close horse race is so deeply consequential. The mantra in the backrooms of GOP and Democratic campaign headquarters has to be… ‘Don’t lose Ohio!'”
Biden Widens Lead In Wisconsin
A new Marquette Law School Poll in Wisconsin finds Joe Biden widening his lead over Donald Trump, 49% to 41%.
In early May, it was Biden 46% to 43%.
Official Warns of Overwhelmed Hospitals In Mississippi
Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs told the Jackson Free Press that residents should prepare for an overwhelmed hospital system in which basic emergency care will be rationed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump Was Right In 2017 When He Said Statue Destroyers Wouldn’t Stop With Confederate Figures
President Trump was roundly mocked and derided for worrying in August 2017 that statue destroyers would move on from statues of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to statues of former presidents and founding fathers George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Major media accused Trump of making inappropriate and even ridiculous comments.
Fewer than three years later, precisely as President Trump predicted, iconoclastic mobs have moved on from toppling Confederate statues to deface, damage, and destroy statues of and memorials to Admiral David Farragut, abolitionist Matthias Baldwin, American Revolutionary War Gen. Philip Schuyler, a Texas ranger, Commanding Gen. of the Union Army Ulysses S. Grant, Frances Scott Key, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. A statue of former President Theodore Roosevelt is facing imminent removal in New York City.
“So this week it’s Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop?” President Trump asked on August 15, 2017.
Removing Confederate memorials doesn’t mean Washington and Jefferson are next, assured Jamelle Bouie of Slate at the time. “Trump’s comparison there is dumb. It doesn’t really even make any sense. And the notion that there’s some slippery slope is dumb,” he said.
Trump was right and all those smug reporters and academics were all wromg.
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