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China Is Showing Its True — and Ugly — Colors Again | RealClearPolitics
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China Is Showing Its True - and Ugly - Colors Again
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China Is Showing Its True — and Ugly — Colors Again
Showing its true colors again this week, the Chinese Communist Party sentenced its first citizen journalist to hard time — for reporting the truth about the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Zhang Zhan, …
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| 2021-01-02T00:00:00 |
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"China Is Showing Its True — and Ugly — Colors Again\nShowing its true colors again this week, the Chinese Communist Party sentenced its first citizen journalist to hard time — for reporting the truth about the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Zhang Zhan, …",
"China Is Showing Its True - and Ugly - Colors Again",
"China Is Showing Its True — and Ugly — Colors Again | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-10T22:04:10 | null | 2021-01-10T00:00:00 |
Twitter Is the Enemy of the American People | RealClearPolitics
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Twitter Is the Enemy of the American People
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Twitter is free to do as it pleases. And I am free to call them what they are: a shill for communist China that seeks the destruction of America.
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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2021/01/10/twitter_is_the_enemy_of_the_american_people_533109.html
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en
| 2021-01-10T00:00:00 |
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"Twitter is free to do as it pleases. And I am free to call them what they are: a shill for communist China that seeks the destruction of America.",
"Twitter Is the Enemy of the American People",
"Twitter Is the Enemy of the American People | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-28T18:27:59 | null | 2021-01-28T00:00:00 |
Reviving the Truth After Trump | RealClearPolitics
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Reviving the Truth After Trump
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Donald Trump is more dangerous than a mere liar because he found a way to exploit the economic doppelganger of science. Behind every government policy that affects us lurks some economic hypothesis whose authority is bolstered by a peer review process that the naked eye can mistake for the scientific process.
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| 2021-01-28T00:00:00 |
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"Reviving the Truth After Trump",
"Reviving the Truth After Trump | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-30T18:01:22 | null | 2021-01-30T00:00:00 |
Schools Must Resist Dems' Harmful Anti-Racist Demands | RealClearPolitics
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Schools Must Resist Dems' Harmful Anti-Racist Demands
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After George Floyd’s killing last spring, protests have flowered on many campuses, and so have manifestos demanding that the schools fully commit themselves to an anti-racist agenda. More are likely as the school restarts and we move into spring. Some may feel that the enlightened course is to simply satisfy these demands out of a commitment to America’s ongoing racial reckoning. However, just as many will see a mismatch between actual conditions on these campuses and the nature and tone of the manifestos, as well as the protest actions usually accompanying them. Administrations must decide where racial reckoning becomes racial wrecking ball, even amid a sincere commitment to addressing racism both open and systemic.
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| 2021-01-30T00:00:00 |
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"Schools Must Resist Dems' Harmful Anti-Racist Demands",
"Schools Must Resist Dems' Harmful Anti-Racist Demands | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-29T22:57:47 | null | 2021-01-29T00:00:00 |
Robinhood Is Right to Save Day Traders From Themselves | RealClearPolitics
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Robinhood Is Right to Save Day Traders From Themselves
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If the powers that be could go back in time to dot-com stock trading in 1999 or subprime mortgage lending in 2005, what would they do differently? That's the question that hangs over comments by both the Biden administration and Securities and Exchange Commission as they watch market volatility generated in part by the wild trading in heavily-shorted stocks like GameStop Corp.
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"If the powers that be could go back in time to dot-com stock trading in 1999 or subprime mortgage lending in 2005, what would they do differently? That's the question that hangs over comments by both the Biden administration and Securities and Exchange Commission as they watch market volatility generated in part by the wild trading in heavily-shorted stocks like GameStop Corp.",
"Robinhood Is Right to Save Day Traders From Themselves",
"Robinhood Is Right to Save Day Traders From Themselves | RealClearPolitics"
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What Wall Street’s War on Reddit Is Really About | RealClearPolitics
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What Wall Street’s War on Reddit Is Really About
Thread by @seanmdav: Wall Street's war on reddit and Robinhood isn't about free markets or price transparency or longs vs. shorts or anything like that. Wall Street institutions have crushed retail shorts with impu...…
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"What Wall Street’s War on Reddit Is Really About",
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[] | 2021-01-16T19:04:41 | null | 2021-01-16T00:00:00 |
Climate Change Is the Greatest Crisis of Our Crisis-Filled Era | RealClearPolitics
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Each of the last seven years has been among the 10 warmest on record. The United Nations warns rightly we are not doing enough to deal with it.
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"Climate Change Is the Greatest Crisis of Our Crisis-Filled Era | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-03T07:12:44 | null | 2021-01-02T00:00:00 |
Reasons for Hope in 2021: Vaccines, Biden and Broader Shifts | RealClearPolitics
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Why the Hispanic Conservative Movement Is Surging | RealClearPolitics
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Why the Hispanic Conservative Movement Is Surging
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Why the Hispanic Conservative Movement Is Surging
Why the Hispanic conservative movement is surging across the US — even without Trump.
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[] | 2021-01-05T09:25:03 | null | 2021-01-04T00:00:00 |
Optimism for the New Year | RealClearPolitics
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There are at least five reasons for optimism in 2021. In the coming year, we can lay the foundations for a new era of sustainable development, peace, and cooperation, though we must also be vigilant to stop the forces of greed, ignorance, and hatred from hijacking the new technologies for their ulterior purposes.
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As the nation gathered to watch the inauguration this week, one thing became glaringly obvious: President Joe Biden is already breaking his promises to the...
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Biden Inauguration Highlights COVID Divide
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As the nation gathered to watch the inauguration this week, one thing became glaringly obvious: President Joe Biden is already breaking his promises to the American people.
If you recall, throughout the presidential campaign, Biden tweeted repeatedly that if elected president, he would "listen to the experts" to combat the coronavirus. Yet, amidst a pandemic where the death toll reached a grim milestone this week -- surpassing 400,000 COVID-19 deaths, according to John Hopkins University -- the president and many of his high-profile guests attending his inauguration flouted CDC guidelines and advice of the so-called experts.
For instance, Lady Gaga, Garth Brooks and Jennifer Lopez were all permitted to sing at the 46th president's swearing in ceremony -- something that Americans are forbidden from doing at church, our kids' schools, music venues and elsewhere because the "experts" say singing can spread the highly contagious coronavirus.
"It is possible that COVID-19 may spread through the droplets and airborne particles that are formed when a person who has COVID-19 coughs, sneezes, sings, talks, or breathes," says the CDC. It warns, "There is growing evidence that droplets and airborne particles can remain suspended in the air and be breathed in by others, and travel distances beyond 6 feet (for example, during choir practice, in restaurants, or in fitness classes)."
As such, California Governor Gavin Newsom banned singing and chanting in churches last summer. A ban that's still in effect restricting Americans from practicing their faith singing Gospel music and other forms of religious expression.
Yet, the "rules" never seem to apply to liberal elites.
Consider the irony that while Biden's privileged pals were singing to their heart's content, just two days earlier -- on MLK Day -- Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who Biden has brought on as his top COVID adviser, told more than 100 Black clergy and leading public health officials at a Choose Healthy Life Black Clergy Conclave event that they won't be able to sing at church until "maybe" next fall.
The question came from the Rev. John Vaughn, a pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. He asked Biden's top pandemic adviser, "When can we expect to go back to church, when we'll be able to sing, we'll be able to do wind instruments?" he asked.
Not until "the overwhelming proportion of our population," at least 70-85% of the population, is vaccinated, said Fauci. But again, none of that purported "expert" advice stopped Biden's guests from abiding by the same restrictions imposed on the rest of us.
Inaugural attendees violated social distancing guidelines and at times mask mandates. Many hugged those outside their household --something the CDC and other "experts" strongly discourage. If you think former First Lady Michelle Obama hugging President Biden's grandchildren at the inauguration was no big deal, try telling that to millions of Americans whose children haven't been able to hug or visit their own grandparents for almost a year.
Other attendees held hands, gave fist bumps, high-fives and, in the case of Jennifer Lopez, skipped wearing a mask as she walked arm in arm with a Marine escorting her to the stage.
COVID "rules" for thee, but not for me.
Yes, attendees were required to get COVID-19 tests prior to the event, per reports. However that requirement doesn't lift singing bans for millions of Christians and other people of faith across America, nor does it exempt professional musicians who would gladly get tested if that meant being able to earn a living or sing at their place of worship.
Same with school kids across the country who are still barred from participating in musical theatre or singing in a choir. And let's not forget that just last month in towns across America Christmas caroling, the beloved holiday tradition was canceled because we were told by the "experts" it's too dangerous to sing -- even if the caroling took place outside and participants were distanced.
Let's also consider all the restaurants and other small businesses crushed throughout the pandemic and the millions of jobs destroyed due to social distancing mandates and other government restrictions. Who speaks for them while Lopez belts out "This Land Is Your Land"?
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Good Riots and Bad Riots | RealClearPolitics
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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's incompetent response to the riots last summer that devastated Minneapolis, and to a lesser extent St. Paul, will never be forgotten. He waited four long days before he finally called out the National Guard in numbers adequate to end the reign of terror that had settled over the Twin Cities. Why was Walz so slow to defend public order? He openly expressed support for the aims
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Dem Governors Have Lost Trump as Covid Scapegoat | RealClearPolitics
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Dem Governors Have Lost Trump as Covid Scapegoat
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As the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines continues to stall across America, Democratic governors and state officials can no longer use former President Donald Trump as a scapegoat if doses are delayed while cases and deaths continue to rise.
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| 2021-01-25T00:00:00 |
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"Dem Governors Have Lost Trump as Covid Scapegoat",
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[] | 2021-01-27T11:34:50 | null | 2021-01-27T00:00:00 |
The consequences of the SARS2 coronavirus pandemic and its management have been enormous. Over 400,000 American deaths have been attributed to the virus; more...
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Will the Truth on COVID Restrictions Really Prevail?
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The consequences of the SARS2 coronavirus pandemic and its management have been enormous. Over 400,000 American deaths have been attributed to the virus; more will certainly follow. Even after almost a year, the pandemic still paralyzes our country. Despite all efforts, there has been an undeniable failure to stop cases from rapidly escalating and preventing hospitalizations and death.
Here’s the reality -- almost all states and major cities, with a handful of exceptions, have implemented severe restrictions for many months, including closures of businesses and in-person school, mobility restrictions and curfews, quarantines, limits on group gatherings, and mask mandates dating back to at least the summer. These measures did not significantly change the typical pattern or damage from the SARS2 virus. President Biden openly admitted as much in his speech to the nation on Jan. 22, when he said “there is nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.” Instead of rethinking the results of implemented policies, many want to blame those who opposed lockdowns and mandates for the failure of the very lockdowns and mandates that were widely implemented.
Ironically, all new policies will coincide with a decrease in cases, because that decrease is already evident across the United States. Hospitalizations in every age group, by CDC data, as well as deaths, have begun to decline. Confirming that trend is the marked drop in symptomatic COVID-19 patients coming to emergency rooms, down 40% from its peak almost a month ago to become lower than that seen before Thanksgiving. Despite that reality, is there any doubt how most of the American media will portray this in their analysis of the administration’s “First 100 Days”?
And let’s be clear about behavior -- social mobility tracking of Americans and data from Gallup, YouGov, the COVID-19 Consortium, and the CDC have shown significant reductions of movement as well as a consistently high percentage of mask wearing since the late summer similar to Western European countries and approaching that in Asia.
America has an internal comparison. Florida, a large, diverse, highly populated state, stands out as having one of the highest percentages of vulnerable elderly in the entire nation, one of only two states with more than 20% over 65 years of age. Florida widely opened schools and businesses months ago, discarded most mobility restrictions, and ended mandates. Florida did not eliminate cases, hospitalizations, or deaths, but Florida has outperformed many states during the recent surge, including those with warm climates, like California, that implemented longstanding lockdowns. Florida’s deaths per capita has also beaten half the country as well as the national average. Even if Floridians on their own behaved similarly to people under mandates, why is that not a subject of open discussion and highlighted by the media?
Separate from their limited value in containing the virus -- efficacy that has often been “grossly exaggerated” in published papers -- lockdown policies have been extraordinarily harmful. The harms to children of closing in-person schooling are dramatic, including poor learning, school dropouts, social isolation, and suicidal ideation, most of which are far worse for lower income groups. A recent study confirms that up to 78% of cancers were never detected due to missed screening over three months. If one extrapolates to the entire country, where about 150,000 new cancers are diagnosed per month, three-fourths to over a million new cases over nine months will have gone undetected. That health disaster adds to missed critical surgeries, delayed presentations of pediatric illnesses, heart attack and stroke patients too afraid to call emergency services, and others all well documented.
Beyond hospital care, CDC reported four-fold increases in depression, three-fold increases in anxiety symptoms, and a doubling of suicidal ideation, particularly among young adults after the first few months of lockdowns, echoing the AMA reports of drug overdoses and suicides. Domestic abuse and child abuse have been skyrocketing due to the isolation and specifically to the loss of jobs, particularly in the strictest lockdowns. Given that many in-person schools have been closed, hundreds of thousands of abuse cases are never reported, since schools are the number one agency where abuse is noticed. Finally, the unemployment “shock” from lockdowns, according to a new NBER study, will generate a 3% increase in mortality rate and a 0.5% drop in life expectancy over the next 15 years, disproportionately affecting African Americans and women. That translates into what they called a “staggering” 890,000 additional U.S. deaths from the lockdowns.
We know we have not yet seen the full extent of the damage from lockdowns, because it will last for decades. Perhaps that is why lockdowns were not recommended in previous pandemic analyses, even for infections with far higher death rates.
To determine the best path forward, shouldn’t policymakers objectively consider both the data and the totality of impact of policies to date? That’s the importance of health policy experts with a broader scope of expertise than that of epidemiologists and basic scientists. That necessarily means admitting that social lockdowns and significant restrictions on individuals are deadly and extraordinarily harmful, especially on the working class and poor.
Optimistically, we are seeing the light at the end of the long tunnel with the rollout of vaccines, now at 1.5 million per day. On the other hand, using logic that would put “Alice in Wonderland’s” Mad Hatter to shame, the new vaccines have been more frequently administered first to healthier, younger people instead of those at risk to die. Few states at the time of this writing have administered most of their vaccinations to people over 65; many have given more than 80% to low-risk age groups. And why is the fact that tens of millions already have biological protection after being infected with the virus -- so they should not be immediate priorities -- not even acknowledged?
Just as in Galileo’s time, another problem is the “vested academic interests.” Many universities have overtly intimidated views contrary to their own, seemingly for political motives, leaving many afraid to speak up. Perhaps university mottos like Harvard’s “truth,” Stanford’s “the winds of freedom blow,” and Yale’s “light and truth” need revision. Social media has piled on with a heavy hand to eliminate discussion of conflicting evidence. Without permitting, indeed encouraging, open debate and admission of errors, we might never solve any future crisis.
America is now a country where differing interpretations of science in order to seek the truth is the new anathema. I fear that “the science” has been seriously damaged, and many have simply become fatigued by the arguments. That is even worse, because fatigue will allow fallacy to triumph over truth. Perhaps Harvard Medical School Professor Martin Kulldorff was correct when he lamented, “After 300 years, the Age of Enlightenment has ended.”
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"The consequences of the SARS2 coronavirus pandemic and its management have been enormous. Over 400,000 American deaths have been attributed to the virus; more will certainly follow. Even after almost a year, the pandemic still paralyzes our country. Despite all efforts, there has been an undeniable failure to stop cases from rapidly escalating and preventing hospitalizations and death.\nHere’s the reality -- almost all states and major cities, with a handful of exceptions, have implemented severe restrictions for many months, including closures of businesses and in-person school, mobility restrictions and curfews, quarantines, limits on group gatherings, and mask mandates dating back to at least the summer. These measures did not significantly change the typical pattern or damage from the SARS2 virus. President Biden openly admitted as much in his speech to the nation on Jan. 22, when he said “there is nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.” Instead of rethinking the results of implemented policies, many want to blame those who opposed lockdowns and mandates for the failure of the very lockdowns and mandates that were widely implemented.\nIronically, all new policies will coincide with a decrease in cases, because that decrease is already evident across the United States. Hospitalizations in every age group, by CDC data, as well as deaths, have begun to decline. Confirming that trend is the marked drop in symptomatic COVID-19 patients coming to emergency rooms, down 40% from its peak almost a month ago to become lower than that seen before Thanksgiving. Despite that reality, is there any doubt how most of the American media will portray this in their analysis of the administration’s “First 100 Days”?\nAnd let’s be clear about behavior -- social mobility tracking of Americans and data from Gallup, YouGov, the COVID-19 Consortium, and the CDC have shown significant reductions of movement as well as a consistently high percentage of mask wearing since the late summer similar to Western European countries and approaching that in Asia.\nAmerica has an internal comparison. Florida, a large, diverse, highly populated state, stands out as having one of the highest percentages of vulnerable elderly in the entire nation, one of only two states with more than 20% over 65 years of age. Florida widely opened schools and businesses months ago, discarded most mobility restrictions, and ended mandates. Florida did not eliminate cases, hospitalizations, or deaths, but Florida has outperformed many states during the recent surge, including those with warm climates, like California, that implemented longstanding lockdowns. Florida’s deaths per capita has also beaten half the country as well as the national average. Even if Floridians on their own behaved similarly to people under mandates, why is that not a subject of open discussion and highlighted by the media?\nSeparate from their limited value in containing the virus -- efficacy that has often been “grossly exaggerated” in published papers -- lockdown policies have been extraordinarily harmful. The harms to children of closing in-person schooling are dramatic, including poor learning, school dropouts, social isolation, and suicidal ideation, most of which are far worse for lower income groups. A recent study confirms that up to 78% of cancers were never detected due to missed screening over three months. If one extrapolates to the entire country, where about 150,000 new cancers are diagnosed per month, three-fourths to over a million new cases over nine months will have gone undetected. That health disaster adds to missed critical surgeries, delayed presentations of pediatric illnesses, heart attack and stroke patients too afraid to call emergency services, and others all well documented.\nBeyond hospital care, CDC reported four-fold increases in depression, three-fold increases in anxiety symptoms, and a doubling of suicidal ideation, particularly among young adults after the first few months of lockdowns, echoing the AMA reports of drug overdoses and suicides. Domestic abuse and child abuse have been skyrocketing due to the isolation and specifically to the loss of jobs, particularly in the strictest lockdowns. Given that many in-person schools have been closed, hundreds of thousands of abuse cases are never reported, since schools are the number one agency where abuse is noticed. Finally, the unemployment “shock” from lockdowns, according to a new NBER study, will generate a 3% increase in mortality rate and a 0.5% drop in life expectancy over the next 15 years, disproportionately affecting African Americans and women. That translates into what they called a “staggering” 890,000 additional U.S. deaths from the lockdowns.\nWe know we have not yet seen the full extent of the damage from lockdowns, because it will last for decades. Perhaps that is why lockdowns were not recommended in previous pandemic analyses, even for infections with far higher death rates.\nTo determine the best path forward, shouldn’t policymakers objectively consider both the data and the totality of impact of policies to date? That’s the importance of health policy experts with a broader scope of expertise than that of epidemiologists and basic scientists. That necessarily means admitting that social lockdowns and significant restrictions on individuals are deadly and extraordinarily harmful, especially on the working class and poor.\nOptimistically, we are seeing the light at the end of the long tunnel with the rollout of vaccines, now at 1.5 million per day. On the other hand, using logic that would put “Alice in Wonderland’s” Mad Hatter to shame, the new vaccines have been more frequently administered first to healthier, younger people instead of those at risk to die. Few states at the time of this writing have administered most of their vaccinations to people over 65; many have given more than 80% to low-risk age groups. And why is the fact that tens of millions already have biological protection after being infected with the virus -- so they should not be immediate priorities -- not even acknowledged?\nJust as in Galileo’s time, another problem is the “vested academic interests.” Many universities have overtly intimidated views contrary to their own, seemingly for political motives, leaving many afraid to speak up. Perhaps university mottos like Harvard’s “truth,” Stanford’s “the winds of freedom blow,” and Yale’s “light and truth” need revision. Social media has piled on with a heavy hand to eliminate discussion of conflicting evidence. Without permitting, indeed encouraging, open debate and admission of errors, we might never solve any future crisis.\nAmerica is now a country where differing interpretations of science in order to seek the truth is the new anathema. I fear that “the science” has been seriously damaged, and many have simply become fatigued by the arguments. That is even worse, because fatigue will allow fallacy to triumph over truth. Perhaps Harvard Medical School Professor Martin Kulldorff was correct when he lamented, “After 300 years, the Age of Enlightenment has ended.”",
"Will the Truth on COVID Restrictions Really Prevail?",
"The consequences of the SARS2 coronavirus pandemic and its management have been enormous. Over 400,000 American deaths have been attributed to the virus; more..."
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How Do You Save a Democracy From Its Own Citizens? | RealClearPolitics
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How Do You Save a Democracy From Its Own Citizens?
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Critics of liberal democracy have long accused it of being weak, more like a debating society obsessed with the fairness of its own rules than a vital force that can defend itself and triumph over hostile forms of politics and ways of life.
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"How Do You Save a Democracy From Its Own Citizens?",
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Merrick Garland Will Finally Be Heard | RealClearPolitics
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Merrick Garland Will Finally Be Heard
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Laura Coates writes that Merrick Garland, a judge who suffered an injustice when he was denied a hearing for a US Supreme Court vacancy in 2016, will likely have the opportunity to lead the Justice Department, which is charged with prosecuting injustice on behalf of the people of the US.
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"Laura Coates writes that Merrick Garland, a judge who suffered an injustice when he was denied a hearing for a US Supreme Court vacancy in 2016, will likely have the opportunity to lead the Justice Department, which is charged with prosecuting injustice on behalf of the people of the US.",
"Merrick Garland Will Finally Be Heard",
"Merrick Garland Will Finally Be Heard | RealClearPolitics"
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How Biden Can Help Forge a New National Narrative | RealClearPolitics
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How Biden Can Help Forge a New National Narrative
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How Biden Can Help Forge a New National Narrative
To survive as a democracy, Trump's ethno-nationalist story of America must be defeated.
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| 2021-01-13T00:00:00 |
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"How Biden Can Help Forge a New National Narrative\nTo survive as a democracy, Trump's ethno-nationalist story of America must be defeated.",
"How Biden Can Help Forge a New National Narrative",
"How Biden Can Help Forge a New National Narrative | RealClearPolitics"
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AOC's Ministry of Truth | RealClearPolitics
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AOC's Ministry of Truth
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Critics say the only solution is to break up the Facebooks and Amazons and other giants currently dominating the landscape, but will the new administration really seek to do that?
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"Critics say the only solution is to break up the Facebooks and Amazons and other giants currently dominating the landscape, but will the new administration really seek to do that?",
"AOC's Ministry of Truth",
"AOC's Ministry of Truth | RealClearPolitics"
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Harris Can Be a Historic—and Influential—Vice President | RealClearPolitics
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Harris Can Be a Historic-and Influential-Vice President
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As a tiebreaker in the Senate and a close adviser to the president, Harris takes on a unique role.
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"Harris Can Be a Historic-and Influential-Vice President",
"Harris Can Be a Historic—and Influential—Vice President | RealClearPolitics"
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Senate Republicans have the opportunity to not only convict Donald Trump of incitement of insurrection, but also punish him with a ban on ever running...
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Might Trump's Final Revenge Be a Third Party?
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Senate Republicans have the opportunity to not only convict Donald Trump of “incitement of insurrection,” but also punish him with a ban on ever running for political office again, so he could never again be president or the standard-bearer of the Republican Party. If you are a Republican who believes Trump is a figurative cancer on the GOP, then this is your best chance to remove the tumor.
The problem, as with any operation, is that the procedure comes with risk. For one thing, the surgeon might not remove all of the cancerous growth. What if Trump and Trumpism have already spread too widely inside the party? Even if he can’t run again, he can still function as a de facto party boss, installing loyalists in the party hierarchy, endorsing candidates, encouraging primary challenges, and running family members for office up to and including the presidency.
Or the cancer may re-appear in another part of the body politic: a new third-party. A nationwide “Trump Party,” if it can master the byzantine state-by-state ballot access process, would ensure that Trump’s name remains on the ballot even if he were no longer allowed to run himself. A party of his own could be a lucrative grift, a fundraising vehicle that sucks up money from his loyalists and skims a significant portion of it into The Trump Organization’s network of businesses. Creating such a schism would also be a potent weapon of revenge against a Republican Party leadership whom Trump has portrayed as backstabbers.
Donald Trump wouldn’t be the first ex-president to divide his former party in two. Teddy Roosevelt stormed out of the 1912 Republican convention, accused his successor, William Howard Taft, and party regulars of robbing him of the presidential nomination, and grabbed the banner of the Progressive Party. The current and former presidents split the Republican vote, helping elect Democrat Woodrow Wilson.
Millard Fillmore, by running as the 1856 presidential nominee of the American Party (or “Know Nothing” Party), accelerated the death of his Whig Party by attracting its conservative supporters, while opponents of slavery flocked to the new Republican Party. Like Wilson, Democrat James Buchanan defeated his splintered opposition with less than 50% of the vote.
The 1848 presidential election saw Martin Van Buren running as the first nominee of the Free Soil Party and peeling off opponents of expanded slavery from the Democratic Party. Van Buren’s gambit helped Whig candidate Zachary Taylor snatch four Northern states with plurality support, enough to win the Electoral College.
All of these examples involve third-party presidential bids by former presidents, something Trump could not directly do himself if convicted in the Senate and barred from running again. But he certainly could give life to a third party, throw his support to its presidential nominee -- one who might share his last name -- and unsubtly suggest he would be the power behind the throne.
Should these examples scare Republican straight, and avoid provoking Trump with an electoral death penalty? No. Granted, the Whigs didn’t survive their 1856 schism. But it was already deeply divided over slavery, and Fillmore wouldn’t have been able to save it even if he wanted to. But the Republican and Democratic parties did survive their temporary schisms, by adapting to new political realities.
While it’s far from the most noble chapter in its history, the Democratic Party was able to let the Free Soilers go after 1848 and successfully regroup in 1852 with New Hampshire’s Franklin Pierce. A supporter of the Compromise of 1850 and its Fugitive Slave Act, Pierce was able to almost completely unify North and South while the Whigs struggled with the slavery issue. (Though Democrats would soon suffer an even deeper schism when Southerners seceded from the Union, the party’s Unionists and Confederates would reunite after the Civil War.) The re-nomination of Taft in 1912 set the Republican Party on a century-long conservative course, one Teddy Roosevelt helped solidify when he abandoned the Progressive Party and endorsed the 1916 GOP nominee.
Republicans can’t know today how much revenge Trump would be able exact on their party if they effectively excommunicated him. Maybe Trump’s base of supporters is big enough to maintain control of the party, or fatally rip it in two. But for a Republican who wants to be part of a party that cares about enacting conservative policies more than blindly worshiping a nihilistic autocrat, the prospect of Trump running for president again under your party’s banner cannot be tenable. The fight for control of the party must be waged; excising the cancer must at least be attempted.
If banning Trump from office means the loss of millions of QAnon supporters and other delusional cultists, so be it. Republicans should have faith that they can adapt to a new political landscape, and compete with Democrats for the votes of rational Americans. If rational Republicans are not in big enough supply today to retain control of the GOP, then they can draw inspiration from their own origin story.
After all, it was the anti-slavery Whigs who recognized their party had become a useless shell, then left it to launch the Republican Party and change the course of history.
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"Senate Republicans have the opportunity to not only convict Donald Trump of “incitement of insurrection,” but also punish him with a ban on ever running for political office again, so he could never again be president or the standard-bearer of the Republican Party. If you are a Republican who believes Trump is a figurative cancer on the GOP, then this is your best chance to remove the tumor.\nThe problem, as with any operation, is that the procedure comes with risk. For one thing, the surgeon might not remove all of the cancerous growth. What if Trump and Trumpism have already spread too widely inside the party? Even if he can’t run again, he can still function as a de facto party boss, installing loyalists in the party hierarchy, endorsing candidates, encouraging primary challenges, and running family members for office up to and including the presidency.\nOr the cancer may re-appear in another part of the body politic: a new third-party. A nationwide “Trump Party,” if it can master the byzantine state-by-state ballot access process, would ensure that Trump’s name remains on the ballot even if he were no longer allowed to run himself. A party of his own could be a lucrative grift, a fundraising vehicle that sucks up money from his loyalists and skims a significant portion of it into The Trump Organization’s network of businesses. Creating such a schism would also be a potent weapon of revenge against a Republican Party leadership whom Trump has portrayed as backstabbers.\nDonald Trump wouldn’t be the first ex-president to divide his former party in two. Teddy Roosevelt stormed out of the 1912 Republican convention, accused his successor, William Howard Taft, and party regulars of robbing him of the presidential nomination, and grabbed the banner of the Progressive Party. The current and former presidents split the Republican vote, helping elect Democrat Woodrow Wilson.\nMillard Fillmore, by running as the 1856 presidential nominee of the American Party (or “Know Nothing” Party), accelerated the death of his Whig Party by attracting its conservative supporters, while opponents of slavery flocked to the new Republican Party. Like Wilson, Democrat James Buchanan defeated his splintered opposition with less than 50% of the vote.\nThe 1848 presidential election saw Martin Van Buren running as the first nominee of the Free Soil Party and peeling off opponents of expanded slavery from the Democratic Party. Van Buren’s gambit helped Whig candidate Zachary Taylor snatch four Northern states with plurality support, enough to win the Electoral College.\nAll of these examples involve third-party presidential bids by former presidents, something Trump could not directly do himself if convicted in the Senate and barred from running again. But he certainly could give life to a third party, throw his support to its presidential nominee -- one who might share his last name -- and unsubtly suggest he would be the power behind the throne.\nShould these examples scare Republican straight, and avoid provoking Trump with an electoral death penalty? No. Granted, the Whigs didn’t survive their 1856 schism. But it was already deeply divided over slavery, and Fillmore wouldn’t have been able to save it even if he wanted to. But the Republican and Democratic parties did survive their temporary schisms, by adapting to new political realities.\nWhile it’s far from the most noble chapter in its history, the Democratic Party was able to let the Free Soilers go after 1848 and successfully regroup in 1852 with New Hampshire’s Franklin Pierce. A supporter of the Compromise of 1850 and its Fugitive Slave Act, Pierce was able to almost completely unify North and South while the Whigs struggled with the slavery issue. (Though Democrats would soon suffer an even deeper schism when Southerners seceded from the Union, the party’s Unionists and Confederates would reunite after the Civil War.) The re-nomination of Taft in 1912 set the Republican Party on a century-long conservative course, one Teddy Roosevelt helped solidify when he abandoned the Progressive Party and endorsed the 1916 GOP nominee.\nRepublicans can’t know today how much revenge Trump would be able exact on their party if they effectively excommunicated him. Maybe Trump’s base of supporters is big enough to maintain control of the party, or fatally rip it in two. But for a Republican who wants to be part of a party that cares about enacting conservative policies more than blindly worshiping a nihilistic autocrat, the prospect of Trump running for president again under your party’s banner cannot be tenable. The fight for control of the party must be waged; excising the cancer must at least be attempted.\nIf banning Trump from office means the loss of millions of QAnon supporters and other delusional cultists, so be it. Republicans should have faith that they can adapt to a new political landscape, and compete with Democrats for the votes of rational Americans. If rational Republicans are not in big enough supply today to retain control of the GOP, then they can draw inspiration from their own origin story.\nAfter all, it was the anti-slavery Whigs who recognized their party had become a useless shell, then left it to launch the Republican Party and change the course of history.",
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Four Things Democrats Should Do in Biden's First 100 Days | RealClearPolitics
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Four Things Democrats Should Do in Biden's First 100 Days
The events of Jan. 6 will spur both parties to show they can act together on things that are vitally important.
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Democrats claim to want to unify the country but impeaching a former president, a private citizen, is the antithesis of unity. This impeachment is nothing more than a partisan exercise designed to further divide the country.
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Trump's Infamy Will Never Fade | RealClearPolitics
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As we lurch through these last perilous days of the Trump presidency, there will be resignations, recriminations, and revisionist histories from Trumpland. They will be as hollow as the character of the men and women who will make them, writes Paul Begala.
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"Trump's Infamy Will Never Fade",
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Longtime pollster Frank Luntz despaired over the state of the American media ecosystem during an appearance Sunday on FNC's "MediaBuzz."
While he says he's planning to continue his work as a public opinion pollster, Luntz worries he isn't the right man for the job.
"I've been telling my friends and colleague that they have to find someone to replace me because they still need to hear from the public," he said. "My frustration is that almost every news network goes to the pundits rather than the people. That they listen to those who are paid to have points of view rather than the American public who has a point of view and has been either ignored or betrayed."
"I just don't know if I'm the right guy to do it, because I have to tell you I lose my temper and I become the very thing I'm criticizing," he worried. "We did a survey within the last ten days, 95% of MSNBC voters voted for Joe Biden, 96% of CNN voters voted for Joe Biden, and 93% of FOX News viewers voted for Donald Trump. So these cable news programs are preaching to the choir and that's a tremendous challenge because it means that you only go to your network that is supporting you. It's tribal news at its worst."
Full transcript at bottom.
On the eve of the #Inauguration, I held a focus group of 1/2 Biden voters and 1/2 Trump voters.Here are some words they used to describe America right now:o "Seeking solutions"o "Divided"o "Deceased"Things escalated quickly from there... pic.twitter.com/C2uo5EkApf-- Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) January 20, 2021
Watch the full highlight reel from Luntz:
FRANK LUNTZ: They simply don't believe they're getting the truth, which is what they want, and they cannot distinguish between what former President Trump says and what others say. That in reality they're getting their news to affirm themselves rather than inform themselves and that's a problem.
It's the responsibility of the news media to tell the truth, to provide the facts, and if you're going to give opinion, make it clear that that's exactly what it is. The problem with the Trump people is they think that it is all opinion. They think it's opinion from the left and they can't find any place to go that's going to validate them and what they believe.
HOWARD KURTZ, FOX NEWS: But isn't also true that people on the liberal side of the spectrum try to seek out news that validates their opinions?
FRANK LUNTZ: Here is the problem, we did a survey within the last ten days, 95% of MSNBC voters voted for Joe Biden, 96% of CNN voters voted for Joe Biden, and 93% of FOX News viewers voted for Donald Trump. So these cable news programs are preaching to the choir and that's a tremendous challenge because it means that you only go to your network that is supporting you. It's tribal news at its worst.
HOWIE KURTZ: How much of a problem is that for President Biden whose inauguration was based on unity, and half of Republicans don't believe he legitimately won the election?
FRANK LUNTZ: It's almost impossible for him to be heard among those who have written him off.
It's awful for the democracy, it's the reason I told Bret Baier a few nights ago and I need to stop doing these groups, stop interviewing these people because frankly for me I realize that I'm not the focus of this, but it's so upsetting to hear this anger and this distrust and this bile that comes out of people.
And what you did not play is the worst of all is when they go at each other and you can't stop them. I think the ultimate consequence of this is that we've lost our ability to reason with each other, to listen to each other, to learn from each other.
Howie, this is a disaster. I know that you're in the business of analyzing the news. I'm in the business of analyzing public opinion and I have to tell you, I'm not only frightened, but I'm also disgusted by it.
HOWIE KURTZ: Let me play a brief clip of what you said to Bret Baier on fox.
Saying it's tough is understatement. I reached the point where I don't want to do this anymore. Howie: so you sound exacerbated a little depressed, are you ready to walk away from your business?
So you're feeling depressed, feeling perhaps the problems aren't fixable? Are you ready to walk away from your business?
FRANK LUNTZ: I've been telling my friends and colleague that they have to find someone to replace me because they still need to hear from the public. My frustration is that almost every news network goes to the pundits rather than the people. That they listen to those who are paid to have points of view rather than the American public who has a point of view and has been either ignored or betrayed. I believe that your listeners have the right and responsibility to neglect what other Americans think and the problem is that no one is bringing it to them. I just don't know if I'm the right guy to do it, because I have to tell you I lose my temper and I become the very thing I'm criticizing.
I think this is a great country, a great population and they've been horribly treated by too many people in your profession.
HOWIE KURTZ: So given the fact that -- and I accept the criticism. Given the fact that you feel like you're losing your temper and that you're becoming part of the strident voices here, and I know you get mad when you do focus groups. Is this it for you, it sounds to me like you've made a decision?
FRANK LUNTZ: I've made the decision, I just need the courage to follow it through.
By the way, I do not feel that way about you.
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On the eve of the #Inauguration, I held a focus group of ½ Biden voters and ½ Trump voters.
Here are some words they used to describe America right now:
• “Seeking solutions”
• “Divided”
• “Deceased”
Things escalated quickly from there… pic.twitter.com/C2uo5EkApf — Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) January 20, 2021
FRANK LUNTZ: They simply don’t believe they’re getting the truth, which is what they want, and they cannot distinguish between what former President Trump says and what others say. That in reality they’re getting their news to affirm themselves rather than inform themselves and that’s a problem.
It’s the responsibility of the news media to tell the truth, to provide the facts, and if you’re going to give opinion, make it clear that that’s exactly what it is. The problem with the Trump people is they think that it is all opinion. They think it’s opinion from the left and they can’t find any place to go that’s going to validate them and what they believe.
HOWARD KURTZ, FOX NEWS: But isn’t also true that people on the liberal side of the spectrum try to seek out news that validates their opinions?
FRANK LUNTZ: Here is the problem, we did a survey within the last ten days, 95% of MSNBC voters voted for Joe Biden, 96% of CNN voters voted for Joe Biden, and 93% of FOX News viewers voted for Donald Trump. So these cable news programs are preaching to the choir and that's a tremendous challenge because it means that you only go to your network that is supporting you. It's tribal news at its worst.
HOWIE KURTZ: How much of a problem is that for President Biden whose inauguration was based on unity, and half of Republicans don't believe he legitimately won the election?
FRANK LUNTZ: It's almost impossible for him to be heard among those who have written him off.
It's awful for the democracy, it's the reason I told Bret Baier a few nights ago and I need to stop doing these groups, stop interviewing these people because frankly for me I realize that I'm not the focus of this, but it's so upsetting to hear this anger and this distrust and this bile that comes out of people.
And what you did not play is the worst of all is when they go at each other and you can't stop them. I think the ultimate consequence of this is that we've lost our ability to reason with each other, to listen to each other, to learn from each other.
Howie, this is a disaster. I know that you’re in the business of analyzing the news. I’m in the business of analyzing public opinion and I have to tell you, I’m not only frightened, but I’m also disgusted by it.
HOWIE KURTZ: Let me play a brief clip of what you said to Bret Baier on fox.
Saying it's tough is understatement. I reached the point where I don't want to do this anymore. Howie: so you sound exasperated a little depressed, are you ready to walk away from your business?
So you're feeling depressed, feeling perhaps the problems aren't fixable? Are you ready to walk away from your business?
FRANK LUNTZ: I've been telling my friends and colleague that they have to find someone to replace me because they still need to hear from the public. My frustration is that almost every news network goes to the pundits rather than the people. That they listen to those who are paid to have points of view rather than the American public who has a point of view and has been either ignored or betrayed. I believe that your listeners have the right and responsibility to neglect what other Americans think and the problem is that no one is bringing it to them. I just don't know if I'm the right guy to do it, because I have to tell you I lose my temper and I become the very thing I'm criticizing.
I think this is a great country, a great population and they've been horribly treated by too many people in your profession.
HOWIE KURTZ: So given the fact that -- and I accept the criticism. Given the fact that you feel like you're losing your temper and that you're becoming part of the strident voices here, and I know you get mad when you do focus groups. Is this it for you, it sounds to me like you've made a decision?
FRANK LUNTZ: I've made the decision, I just need the courage to follow it through.
By the way, I do not feel that way about you.
Longtime pollster Frank Luntz despaired over the state of the American media ecosystem during an appearance Sunday on FNC's "MediaBuzz."While he says he's planning to continue his work as a public opinion pollster, Luntz worries he isn't the right man for the job."I've been telling my friends and colleague that they have to find someone to replace me because they still need to hear from the public," he said. "My frustration is that almost every news network goes to the pundits rather than the people. That they listen to those who are paid to have points of view rather than the American public who has a point of view and has been either ignored or betrayed.""I just don't know if I'm the right guy to do it, because I have to tell you I lose my temper and I become the very thing I'm criticizing," he worried. "We did a survey within the last ten days, 95% of MSNBC voters voted for Joe Biden, 96% of CNN voters voted for Joe Biden, and 93% of FOX News viewers voted for Donald Trump. So these cable news programs are preaching to the choir and that's a tremendous challenge because it means that you only go to your network that is supporting you. It's tribal news at its worst."Full transcript at bottom.Watch the full highlight reel from Luntz:
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They think it’s opinion from the left and they can’t find any place to go that’s going to validate them and what they believe.\nHOWARD KURTZ, FOX NEWS: But isn’t also true that people on the liberal side of the spectrum try to seek out news that validates their opinions?\nFRANK LUNTZ: Here is the problem, we did a survey within the last ten days, 95% of MSNBC voters voted for Joe Biden, 96% of CNN voters voted for Joe Biden, and 93% of FOX News viewers voted for Donald Trump. So these cable news programs are preaching to the choir and that's a tremendous challenge because it means that you only go to your network that is supporting you. It's tribal news at its worst.\nHOWIE KURTZ: How much of a problem is that for President Biden whose inauguration was based on unity, and half of Republicans don't believe he legitimately won the election?\nFRANK LUNTZ: It's almost impossible for him to be heard among those who have written him off.\nIt's awful for the democracy, it's the reason I told Bret Baier a few nights ago and I need to stop doing these groups, stop interviewing these people because frankly for me I realize that I'm not the focus of this, but it's so upsetting to hear this anger and this distrust and this bile that comes out of people.\nAnd what you did not play is the worst of all is when they go at each other and you can't stop them. I think the ultimate consequence of this is that we've lost our ability to reason with each other, to listen to each other, to learn from each other.\nHowie, this is a disaster. I know that you’re in the business of analyzing the news. I’m in the business of analyzing public opinion and I have to tell you, I’m not only frightened, but I’m also disgusted by it.\nHOWIE KURTZ: Let me play a brief clip of what you said to Bret Baier on fox.\nSaying it's tough is understatement. I reached the point where I don't want to do this anymore. Howie: so you sound exasperated a little depressed, are you ready to walk away from your business?\nSo you're feeling depressed, feeling perhaps the problems aren't fixable? Are you ready to walk away from your business?\nFRANK LUNTZ: I've been telling my friends and colleague that they have to find someone to replace me because they still need to hear from the public. My frustration is that almost every news network goes to the pundits rather than the people. That they listen to those who are paid to have points of view rather than the American public who has a point of view and has been either ignored or betrayed. I believe that your listeners have the right and responsibility to neglect what other Americans think and the problem is that no one is bringing it to them. I just don't know if I'm the right guy to do it, because I have to tell you I lose my temper and I become the very thing I'm criticizing.\nI think this is a great country, a great population and they've been horribly treated by too many people in your profession.\nHOWIE KURTZ: So given the fact that -- and I accept the criticism. Given the fact that you feel like you're losing your temper and that you're becoming part of the strident voices here, and I know you get mad when you do focus groups. Is this it for you, it sounds to me like you've made a decision?\nFRANK LUNTZ: I've made the decision, I just need the courage to follow it through.\nBy the way, I do not feel that way about you.\nLongtime pollster Frank Luntz despaired over the state of the American media ecosystem during an appearance Sunday on FNC's \"MediaBuzz.\"While he says he's planning to continue his work as a public opinion pollster, Luntz worries he isn't the right man for the job.\"I've been telling my friends and colleague that they have to find someone to replace me because they still need to hear from the public,\" he said. \"My frustration is that almost every news network goes to the pundits rather than the people. That they listen to those who are paid to have points of view rather than the American public who has a point of view and has been either ignored or betrayed.\"\"I just don't know if I'm the right guy to do it, because I have to tell you I lose my temper and I become the very thing I'm criticizing,\" he worried. \"We did a survey within the last ten days, 95% of MSNBC voters voted for Joe Biden, 96% of CNN voters voted for Joe Biden, and 93% of FOX News viewers voted for Donald Trump. So these cable news programs are preaching to the choir and that's a tremendous challenge because it means that you only go to your network that is supporting you. It's tribal news at its worst.\"Full transcript at bottom.Watch the full highlight reel from Luntz:",
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It's tribal news at its worst.\"\r\n\r\nFull transcript at bottom. \r\n\r\nOn the eve of the #Inauguration, I held a focus group of 1/2 Biden voters and 1/2 Trump voters.Here are some words they used to describe America right now:o \"Seeking solutions\"o \"Divided\"o \"Deceased\"Things escalated quickly from there... pic.twitter.com/C2uo5EkApf-- Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) January 20, 2021 \r\n\r\nWatch the full highlight reel from Luntz:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFRANK LUNTZ: They simply don't believe they're getting the truth, which is what they want, and they cannot distinguish between what former President Trump says and what others say. That in reality they're getting their news to affirm themselves rather than inform themselves and that's a problem.\r\n\r\nIt's the responsibility of the news media to tell the truth, to provide the facts, and if you're going to give opinion, make it clear that that's exactly what it is. The problem with the Trump people is they think that it is all opinion. They think it's opinion from the left and they can't find any place to go that's going to validate them and what they believe.\r\n\r\nHOWARD KURTZ, FOX NEWS: But isn't also true that people on the liberal side of the spectrum try to seek out news that validates their opinions?\r\n\r\nFRANK LUNTZ: Here is the problem, we did a survey within the last ten days, 95% of MSNBC voters voted for Joe Biden, 96% of CNN voters voted for Joe Biden, and 93% of FOX News viewers voted for Donald Trump. So these cable news programs are preaching to the choir and that's a tremendous challenge because it means that you only go to your network that is supporting you. It's tribal news at its worst. \r\n\r\nHOWIE KURTZ: How much of a problem is that for President Biden whose inauguration was based on unity, and half of Republicans don't believe he legitimately won the election?\r\n\r\nFRANK LUNTZ: It's almost impossible for him to be heard among those who have written him off. \r\n\r\nIt's awful for the democracy, it's the reason I told Bret Baier a few nights ago and I need to stop doing these groups, stop interviewing these people because frankly for me I realize that I'm not the focus of this, but it's so upsetting to hear this anger and this distrust and this bile that comes out of people.\r\n\r\nAnd what you did not play is the worst of all is when they go at each other and you can't stop them. I think the ultimate consequence of this is that we've lost our ability to reason with each other, to listen to each other, to learn from each other. \r\n\r\nHowie, this is a disaster. I know that you're in the business of analyzing the news. I'm in the business of analyzing public opinion and I have to tell you, I'm not only frightened, but I'm also disgusted by it.\r\n\r\nHOWIE KURTZ: Let me play a brief clip of what you said to Bret Baier on fox.\r\n\r\nSaying it's tough is understatement. I reached the point where I don't want to do this anymore. Howie: so you sound exacerbated a little depressed, are you ready to walk away from your business?\r\n\r\nSo you're feeling depressed, feeling perhaps the problems aren't fixable? Are you ready to walk away from your business?\r\n\r\nFRANK LUNTZ: I've been telling my friends and colleague that they have to find someone to replace me because they still need to hear from the public. My frustration is that almost every news network goes to the pundits rather than the people. That they listen to those who are paid to have points of view rather than the American public who has a point of view and has been either ignored or betrayed. I believe that your listeners have the right and responsibility to neglect what other Americans think and the problem is that no one is bringing it to them. I just don't know if I'm the right guy to do it, because I have to tell you I lose my temper and I become the very thing I'm criticizing. \r\n\r\nI think this is a great country, a great population and they've been horribly treated by too many people in your profession. \r\n\r\nHOWIE KURTZ: So given the fact that -- and I accept the criticism. Given the fact that you feel like you're losing your temper and that you're becoming part of the strident voices here, and I know you get mad when you do focus groups. Is this it for you, it sounds to me like you've made a decision?\r\n\r\nFRANK LUNTZ: I've made the decision, I just need the courage to follow it through. \r\n\r\nBy the way, I do not feel that way about you."
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The National Guard's presence is a spectacle, but not much of an impediment. For Washingtonians, life goes on much as it did before.
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After Republican Losses in GA, Let the Blame Game Begin
The recriminations about the likely loss of two GOP incumbents in Georgia will ripple through Republican circles in a display of total acrimony.
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Did the Coronavirus Escape From a Lab? | RealClearPolitics
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Did the Coronavirus Escape From a Lab?
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For decades, scientists have been hot-wiring viruses in hopes of preventing a pandemic, not causing one. But what if …?
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"For decades, scientists have been hot-wiring viruses in hopes of preventing a pandemic, not causing one. But what if …?",
"Did the Coronavirus Escape From a Lab?",
"Did the Coronavirus Escape From a Lab? | RealClearPolitics"
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Tech Giants Can't Be Trusted to Police Speech | RealClearPolitics
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Tech Giants Can't Be Trusted to Police Speech
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Tech Giants Can't Be Trusted to Police Speech
The job of regulating incendiary discourse belongs to democratically elected governments, not powerful private interests.
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"Tech Giants Can't Be Trusted to Police Speech\nThe job of regulating incendiary discourse belongs to democratically elected governments, not powerful private interests.",
"Tech Giants Can't Be Trusted to Police Speech",
"Tech Giants Can't Be Trusted to Police Speech | RealClearPolitics"
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You Can't Dissolve the People and Elect Another | RealClearPolitics
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You Can't Dissolve the People and Elect Another
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You Can't Dissolve the People and Elect Another
Here comes the Mitch McConnell impeachment effort, as effective and well-thought as his filibuster defense effort.
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"You Can't Dissolve the People and Elect Another\nHere comes the Mitch McConnell impeachment effort, as effective and well-thought as his filibuster defense effort.",
"You Can't Dissolve the People and Elect Another",
"You Can't Dissolve the People and Elect Another | RealClearPolitics"
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The End of the 1776 Commission and the Fight Over History | RealClearPolitics
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The End of the 1776 Commission and the Fight Over History
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The 1776 Commission - dissolved in one of President Biden's first acts in office - is more than the detritus left by the Trump administration, says historian Nicole Hemmer. It marks the depth of right-wing commitment to ideological pseudo-history that can be used to shut down any meaningful conversation about racism -- a commitment that Trump's exit from office on its own won't relegate to the fringe.
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"The 1776 Commission - dissolved in one of President Biden's first acts in office - is more than the detritus left by the Trump administration, says historian Nicole Hemmer. It marks the depth of right-wing commitment to ideological pseudo-history that can be used to shut down any meaningful conversation about racism -- a commitment that Trump's exit from office on its own won't relegate to the fringe.",
"The End of the 1776 Commission and the Fight Over History",
"The End of the 1776 Commission and the Fight Over History | RealClearPolitics"
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Georgians Must Stop Dems' Radical Socialist Agenda | RealClearPolitics
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Georgians Must Stop Dems' Radical Socialist Agenda
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If Democrats prevail in the U.S. Senate runoff elections Tuesday they will have the control of Congress they need to impose their radical, socialist agenda on the American people. My fellow Georgia Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler and I are working tirelessly each day to defeat our opponents so that doesn't happen.
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| 2021-01-03T00:00:00 |
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"If Democrats prevail in the U.S. Senate runoff elections Tuesday they will have the control of Congress they need to impose their radical, socialist agenda on the American people. My fellow Georgia Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler and I are working tirelessly each day to defeat our opponents so that doesn't happen.",
"Georgians Must Stop Dems' Radical Socialist Agenda",
"Georgians Must Stop Dems' Radical Socialist Agenda | RealClearPolitics"
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Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen | RealClearPolitics
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Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen
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Firmly linking teen suicides to school closings is difficult, but rising mental health emergencies and suicide rates point to the toll the pandemic lockdown is taking.
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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2021/01/24/surge_of_student_suicides_pushes_las_vegas_schools_to_reopen_534274.html
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| 2021-01-24T00:00:00 |
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"Firmly linking teen suicides to school closings is difficult, but rising mental health emergencies and suicide rates point to the toll the pandemic lockdown is taking.",
"Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen",
"Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen | RealClearPolitics"
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Trump Is Banned. Who Is Next? | RealClearPolitics
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Trump Won't Get Credit, But US Will Beat Covid Before Europe | RealClearPolitics
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Trump Won't Get Credit, But US Will Beat Covid Before Europe
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Over at Asia Times, I report that the Europeans now think America will be the first Western country to eliiminate COVID-19. By midyear more than two-thirds of Americans will have resistance to the virus due to either vaccination or past infection, enough to achieve herd immunity. Europe by contrast can’t get its act together. East Asia controlled the virus by other means but will remain vulnerable to future outbreaks.
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"Over at Asia Times, I report that the Europeans now think America will be the first Western country to eliiminate COVID-19. By midyear more than two-thirds of Americans will have resistance to the virus due to either vaccination or past infection, enough to achieve herd immunity. Europe by contrast can’t get its act together. East Asia controlled the virus by other means but will remain vulnerable to future outbreaks.",
"Trump Won't Get Credit, But US Will Beat Covid Before Europe",
"Trump Won't Get Credit, But US Will Beat Covid Before Europe | RealClearPolitics"
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Four Things Democrats Should Do in Biden's First 100 Days | RealClearPolitics
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Four Things Democrats Should Do in Biden's First 100 Days
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Four Things Democrats Should Do in Biden's First 100 Days
The events of Jan. 6 will spur both parties to show they can act together on things that are vitally important.
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| 2021-01-13T00:00:00 |
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"Four Things Democrats Should Do in Biden's First 100 Days\nThe events of Jan. 6 will spur both parties to show they can act together on things that are vitally important.",
"Four Things Democrats Should Do in Biden's First 100 Days",
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Biden Will Try to California-ize the Nation | RealClearPolitics
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Biden Will Try to California-ize the Nation
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Biden Will Try to California-ize the Nation
(Office of the Governor via AP)
California lawmakers' arrogance won't change, but now Congress will try to impose these regulatory policies on the entire country.
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"Biden Will Try to California-ize the Nation\n(Office of the Governor via AP)\nCalifornia lawmakers' arrogance won't change, but now Congress will try to impose these regulatory policies on the entire country.",
"Biden Will Try to California-ize the Nation",
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Let us begin with this fact: The left always suppresses speech. Since Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917, there has been no example...
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Why the Left Has to Suppress Free Speech
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Let us begin with this fact: The left always suppresses speech. Since Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917, there has been no example of the left in control and not crushing dissent.
That is one of the important differences between liberal and left: Liberalism and liberals believe in free speech. (The present leftist threat to freedom in America, the greatest threat to freedom in American history, is made possible because liberals think they have more to fear from conservatives than from the left. Liberals do not understand that the left regards liberals as their useful idiots.)
The left controls universities. There is little or no dissent allowed at universities.
The left controls nearly every "news" medium. There is little or no dissent in the mainstream media -- not in the "news" sections and not in the opinion sections.
The left controls Hollywood. No dissent is allowed in Hollywood.
That is why we have "cancel culture" -- the silencing and firing of anyone who publicly dissents from the left, and even "publicly" is no longer necessary. The National Association of Realtors has just announced that if you express dissenting views (on race, especially) in private, you may be fined and lose your membership in the organization -- which effectively ends your career as a realtor.
So, we return to the opening question: Why does the left need to crush all dissent? This is a question made all the more stark because there is no parallel on the right: Conservatives do not shut down dissent or debate.
The answer, though the left will not acknowledge it, is the left fears dissent. And they do so for good reason. Leftism is essentially a giant balloon filled with nothing but hot air. Therefore, no matter how big the balloon -- the Democratic Party, The New York Times, Yale University -- all it takes is a mere pin to burst it.
Leftism is venerated by intellectuals. But there is little intellectual substance to leftism. It is a combination of doctrine and emotion. The proof? Those with intellectual depth do not stifle dissent; they welcome it.
That is why universities are so opposed to conservatives coming to speak on campus. One articulate conservative can undo years of left-wing indoctrination in a one-hour talk or Q and A. I know this from personal experience on campuses. You can, too. Watch the speeches given by any conservatives allowed to speak on a campus -- many of these talks are still on YouTube -- and you will see large halls filled with students yearning to hear something other than left-wing pablum. Look at their faces, filled with rapt attention to ideas they never heard that are clearly having an impact. Universities are entirely right to fear our coming to speak. We come with the pin that bursts their $50,000-a-year balloon.
That is also why it is so hard to get any of them to debate any of us. In 35 years of radio, I have never mistreated or bullied a guest. I was unfailingly polite to an icon of the left, Howard Zinn, the America-hating author of the America-hating "A People's History of the United States." I even invited a UCLA political science professor and violinist, one of seven members of the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra who refused to play when I conducted the orchestra in a Joseph Haydn symphony in the Disney Concert Hall -- solely because I'm a conservative. Despite his public letter, in which he accused me of holding "horribly bigoted positions" and wrote, "Please urge your friends to not attend this concert, which helps normalize bigotry in our community," I nevertheless invited him on my national radio show. He agreed. I had him in studio for an entire hour and treated him and his wife (who accompanied him) with great respect, despite my contempt for his false accusations and his advocacy of the cancel culture. Every American should hear that hour.
Unfortunately for the emotional and intellectual health of our society, he, Zinn and a few others were anomalies. Of the 100 or so left-wing authors, professors and columnists invited to appear on my show, almost none has responded in the affirmative. They prefer NPR, where they are never challenged.
The opposite, however, is not true: Every conservative intellectual I know says yes to every one of the (very few) left-wing invitations we receive. Of course, we are almost never invited. We regularly invite leftists. Leftists almost never invite us. They claim it's because we are not up to their intellectual level and they have no desire to waste their time. One would think that the opportunity to publicly show how vapid we conservatives really are would be too good to pass up.
Leftists do not debate us or appear as guests on our shows and prevent us from speaking whenever possible, because they (correctly) fear conservatives. Race-baiters such as Ibram X. Kendi or Ta-Nehisi Coates (pictured) or "White Fragility" author Robin DiAngelo would never debate Larry Elder, for example. Why won't they? Because they would be shown to be the intellectually shallow purveyors of hate they are. Deep down, they know it. Larry Elder is one of many conservative black intellectuals who left-wing blacks (and whites) refuse to debate.
Now you know why the left suppresses free speech: because they have to. If there is free speech, there is dissent. And if there is dissent, there is no more left.
COPYRIGHT 2021 CREATORS.COM
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"Let us begin with this fact: The left always suppresses speech. Since Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917, there has been no example of the left in control and not crushing dissent.\nThat is one of the important differences between liberal and left: Liberalism and liberals believe in free speech. (The present leftist threat to freedom in America, the greatest threat to freedom in American history, is made possible because liberals think they have more to fear from conservatives than from the left. Liberals do not understand that the left regards liberals as their useful idiots.)\nThe left controls universities. There is little or no dissent allowed at universities.\nThe left controls nearly every \"news\" medium. There is little or no dissent in the mainstream media -- not in the \"news\" sections and not in the opinion sections.\nThe left controls Hollywood. No dissent is allowed in Hollywood.\nThat is why we have \"cancel culture\" -- the silencing and firing of anyone who publicly dissents from the left, and even \"publicly\" is no longer necessary. The National Association of Realtors has just announced that if you express dissenting views (on race, especially) in private, you may be fined and lose your membership in the organization -- which effectively ends your career as a realtor.\nSo, we return to the opening question: Why does the left need to crush all dissent? This is a question made all the more stark because there is no parallel on the right: Conservatives do not shut down dissent or debate.\nThe answer, though the left will not acknowledge it, is the left fears dissent. And they do so for good reason. Leftism is essentially a giant balloon filled with nothing but hot air. Therefore, no matter how big the balloon -- the Democratic Party, The New York Times, Yale University -- all it takes is a mere pin to burst it.\nLeftism is venerated by intellectuals. But there is little intellectual substance to leftism. It is a combination of doctrine and emotion. The proof? Those with intellectual depth do not stifle dissent; they welcome it.\nThat is why universities are so opposed to conservatives coming to speak on campus. One articulate conservative can undo years of left-wing indoctrination in a one-hour talk or Q and A. I know this from personal experience on campuses. You can, too. Watch the speeches given by any conservatives allowed to speak on a campus -- many of these talks are still on YouTube -- and you will see large halls filled with students yearning to hear something other than left-wing pablum. Look at their faces, filled with rapt attention to ideas they never heard that are clearly having an impact. Universities are entirely right to fear our coming to speak. We come with the pin that bursts their $50,000-a-year balloon.\nThat is also why it is so hard to get any of them to debate any of us. In 35 years of radio, I have never mistreated or bullied a guest. I was unfailingly polite to an icon of the left, Howard Zinn, the America-hating author of the America-hating \"A People's History of the United States.\" I even invited a UCLA political science professor and violinist, one of seven members of the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra who refused to play when I conducted the orchestra in a Joseph Haydn symphony in the Disney Concert Hall -- solely because I'm a conservative. Despite his public letter, in which he accused me of holding \"horribly bigoted positions\" and wrote, \"Please urge your friends to not attend this concert, which helps normalize bigotry in our community,\" I nevertheless invited him on my national radio show. He agreed. I had him in studio for an entire hour and treated him and his wife (who accompanied him) with great respect, despite my contempt for his false accusations and his advocacy of the cancel culture. Every American should hear that hour.\nUnfortunately for the emotional and intellectual health of our society, he, Zinn and a few others were anomalies. Of the 100 or so left-wing authors, professors and columnists invited to appear on my show, almost none has responded in the affirmative. They prefer NPR, where they are never challenged.\nThe opposite, however, is not true: Every conservative intellectual I know says yes to every one of the (very few) left-wing invitations we receive. Of course, we are almost never invited. We regularly invite leftists. Leftists almost never invite us. They claim it's because we are not up to their intellectual level and they have no desire to waste their time. One would think that the opportunity to publicly show how vapid we conservatives really are would be too good to pass up.\nLeftists do not debate us or appear as guests on our shows and prevent us from speaking whenever possible, because they (correctly) fear conservatives. Race-baiters such as Ibram X. Kendi or Ta-Nehisi Coates (pictured) or \"White Fragility\" author Robin DiAngelo would never debate Larry Elder, for example. Why won't they? Because they would be shown to be the intellectually shallow purveyors of hate they are. Deep down, they know it. Larry Elder is one of many conservative black intellectuals who left-wing blacks (and whites) refuse to debate.\nNow you know why the left suppresses free speech: because they have to. If there is free speech, there is dissent. And if there is dissent, there is no more left.\nCOPYRIGHT 2021 CREATORS.COM",
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Why This Impeachment Matters | RealClearPolitics
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By nearly every standard we can measure in a democracy, President Trump will leave office next week as a disastrous failure. His rejection by a broad swath of society following last week’s attempted coup is a cautionary tale to all of us — a warning about what happens when we turn power over to people who are unprepared, unprincipled and utterly unfit for high office.
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"Why This Impeachment Matters",
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Police Inability to Secure Capitol Raises Serious Questions | RealClearPolitics
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Police Inability to Secure Capitol Raises Serious Questions
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The Capitol Police Department is coming under scrutiny for its failure to secure the U.S. Capitol as a pro-Trump mob overtook the campus.
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"The Capitol Police Department is coming under scrutiny for its failure to secure the U.S. Capitol as a pro-Trump mob overtook the campus.",
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Kelly Loeffler's Disastrous Senate Term | RealClearPolitics
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Kelly Loeffler's Disastrous Senate Term
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Appointed Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler's loss at the hands of Rev. Raphael Warnock (D) on Tuesday brings to an end one of the most ignominious Senate terms in modern memory.
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| 2021-01-06T00:00:00 |
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"Appointed Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler's loss at the hands of Rev. Raphael Warnock (D) on Tuesday brings to an end one of the most ignominious Senate terms in modern memory.",
"Kelly Loeffler's Disastrous Senate Term",
"Kelly Loeffler's Disastrous Senate Term | RealClearPolitics"
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RUSH LIMBAUGH: Let me go over some things here just to set the table, give you some things that are gonna shake out today that we’re gonna be talking about. There’s a fascinating thing — it is the most fascinating thing that’s going on out there a long time. Have you heard the story? Do you know the details of what’s going with GameStop?
Folks, it’s not just political now. The elites are bent out of shape that a bunch of average, ordinary users have figured out how to make themselves billionaires using – (interruption) I’m gonna explain it. I’m gonna take the time necessary to explain this. You’re damn right. I’ve been studying it all morning. And the best thing I can tell you is that whatever you think is going on in politics — the Washington establishment, the deep state, what have you — it’s the same thing in finance. There are those who are allowed to make all of the money and those of you who aren’t.
And if you figure out how to make a lot of money and if you’re like Donald Trump and you figure out how to get elected, you figure out how to beat the deep state, they’re gonna come out and they’re gonna wipe you out; they’re gonna destroy you. That’s what’s happening with GameStop. A bunch of people on Reddit figured out how to game the system. They figured out how to turn the system into a profit-making device for themselves.
In the process, they are harming the intended winners in this financial circumstance, and that would be the hedge funds out there. The hedge funds are supposed to be the ones making a lot of money, and they’re not. And they’re begging other hedge funds to bail them out. So, yes, I’m going to explain this. It’s not gonna take a long time, but folks, it’s fascinating. And the reason that it is fascinating is now it’s not just politics.
Now they’re not just calling us racists, sexists, bigots, homophobes in a way to control us, in a way to shame us. Now they’re actually making it clear to anybody who has the ability to notice that you’re not allowed to use the stock market the way they do. You’re not allowed to profit. You’re not allowed to make the kind of money they do.
The elites — now, I have attempted to explain this over the course of many busy years here on the EIB Network. The notion of being an elite, of being a member of the deep state, the Washington establishment, what is it? It’s many things. Among those many things are perks. And the perks are the ability to guarantee your kids’ financial future, the ability to guarantee yourself a financial future, the ability to guarantee yourself a position of some power, depending on who you are in the establishment, the club of elites, whatever you want to call it.
And it extends to far more than just political things. It’s like the Never Trumpers. The Never Trumpers fashion themselves as elites. The Never Trumpers, they played the dutiful losers, lost with honor. The Never Trumpers, the Republicans who hated Donald Trump ’cause he came in and screwed up their position as accepted elites. So they had to fire back at him. And they had a role to play, and for that role, they were rewarded. Banks lent them money or financiers bankrolled their stupid little magazines that nobody read and their cruises and all that, and they were guaranteed a financial foundation. And Trump came in and threatened all of that. He had to go.
But this GameStop business now makes this something that is understandable beyond the political world, and that is its value. It’s not just political anymore. It’s not just that you can’t think for yourself on issues and matters of politics. You know, everything is rigged in favor of the elites, and this has come along and upset that rigging. You know, if everything doesn’t benefit the establishment, then it has to be censored, right? Your speech, your attitude, if it doesn’t benefit the establishment, it’s gotta be censored. It’s gotta be canceled. It’s gotta be silenced.
Well, now with this GameStop story and the revelations contained in it, the elites, the same people that were hell-bent on getting rid of Donald Trump, the same people are now trying to tell you what you can and can’t do with your money. Not only what you can and can’t think, but it’s now what you can and can’t do with your money.
So yes, Mr. Snerdley, I will explain this as the program unfolds. Look. It’s more detailed. Let me give you a couple paragraphs as a stopgap until we get into it as the program unfolds. Some hedge fund managers shorted GameStop’s — now, what is GameStop? What the hell is it? GameStop is a company. This has not been widely explained because the elites don’t take the time to explain this. But let me tell you what it is. GameStop is a company that sells physical copies of video games in dying malls. I mean, they’re an out-of-fashion company. It’s another thing that ticks off the elites. This company is way behind the times. They’re selling physical copies of video games next to all the other dying stores in malls.
But right now GameStop has become the most highly traded asset in the United States. GameStop’s stock price was $4 last summer, $20 at the end 2020, is now worth close to $300. And here is a passage from an elitist publication describing it.
“Essentially, many normal-ish people have made a huge bet against gigantic [hedge funds] financial institutions and are currently winning. In practice this means we are seeing one of the -” and here is the rub of it, folks. “We are seeing one of the largest wealth transfers from the financial ruling class to the middle and middle-upper classes in recent memory.” And it’s not been authorized, you see. It’s just happening within the normal ebb and flow of the market. Some normalish people figured out how to earn a hell of a lot of money using the establishment’s own methods against them.
This is all about “short squeezing” and “short selling,” and if you don’t know what those terms are, hang on, because I will explain those as the program unfolds. But the key to this is the reason why this is a story, the reason why you’re watching — and you know what else is funny?
Snerdley had to ask me, “Are you gonna explain it?” ’cause you’ve been watching cable news, and the people in charge of explaining it don’t know what they’re talking about, right? (interruption) Because they only know the establishment view of finance. They only know the elite view, because they think of themselves as elites.
The financial people at CNN, financial people MSNBC, they’re really woefully ill-educated on this kind of stuff. So I did a test today. I tried to watch the infobabes at a couple of cable networks explain this. They don’t know what they’re talking about. They’re reading whatever somebody’s written for them on the teleprompter, and they’re using odd facial expressions to make it look like they know what they’re talking about.
But the key to this is what has happened: We are seeing one of the largest wealth transfers from the financial ruling class to the middle and upper classes in recent memory, and it’s not authorized. Sometimes the upper class authorizes a transfer of wealth with certain new policies, certain new regulations. This is totally unauthorized. This came about because of the understanding of the system and how to game it by normal people.
Right here it is in this story: “Many normal people” have made a huge bet against them, and they’re winning, and because this has been a massive transfer of wealth, it is understandably the only thing anybody’s talking about ’cause it’s unauthorized. “A group of Reddit users who grew up playing video games from GameStop,” that’s how old they are, “decided to beat Wall Street at its own game.”
They got together, banded together, and began buying GameStop stocks. That drove the price up. Other regular traders saw the price increase; they began buying, and some real momentum was created. But now the hedge fund guys who sold short are losing their shirts. The hedge fund guys, the elites had planned to sell GameStop short. That means they are counting on GameStop losing money. They only win if GameStop loses.
Well, the GameStop stock price was $4 last summer, $20 at the end of 2020, $40 two weeks ago. It was worth $100 on Monday and Tuesday, and today it’s $300. The hedge funds are taking it in the shorts. I mean, big time they are. They’re being wiped out to a certain extent, and they don’t like it. These normal people have figured out a way to do it, and they don’t like it.
So they’re asking other hedge funds to bail them out and to stop trading. Like Facebook and Google stop you from commenting, they’re asking other apps that allow this kind of trading activity to stop it. They’re using their power to prevent normal people from trading, from short selling and from taking advantage of the fact that the elites are short selling and short squeezing.
So, if you are an elite hedge fund and your position is that you are selling short on GameStop and their stock price has gone from four bucks to 300, you are losing your shirt. You’re losing your pants, you’re losing your underwear, you’re losing your scrotum. You’re losing everything out there. So there is, ladies and gentlemen, an app called Robinhood.
Robinhood bills themselves as “democratizing finance for all.” Securities by Robinhood Financial, Crypto by Robinhood Crypto. That’s the app that people are using to bring about this transfer of wealth. So the elites are leaning on Robinhood like Google and so forth leaned on other news organizations to censor conservatives, to wipe them out, to not give them a forum.
The same thing has happened. That’s what’s amazing to me about the story: The educational value it has, the informative value it has. It’s not just your political opinions and your political thoughts that are under scrutiny and are essentially being censored. No. Now it’s the way that you invest your money. Oh, yeah! And I can’t…
You know, the circumstance here is such a valuable teaching moment. So we will get into this. There’s a little bit more detail to this that I will explain as the program unfolds. Now, the other regular traders that saw these price increases, they began buying. Some real momentum was created. Now the hedge fund guys that sold short are losing their shorts and everything.
The Reddit users where all this started — the Reddit users, Robinhood — did nothing illegal. It’s important for you to… No matter what you hear on the news, they have done nothing illegal. They played the same game that hedge fund managers play every day to make a lot of rich people even richer. Yet the markets are now shutting down trades.
Like I just explained to you, they’re shutting down trades in GameStop in order to protect the elites. They’re even getting blocked on social media. But when you design and use a system to benefit yourself, don’t complain when it gets used against you, and that is what’s happening here with GameStop. Folks, it’s not some obscure thing involving what young kids are doing.
The teachable moment here is how this censorship that we are experiencing from tech media, the tech oligarchs, is not confined to your political thoughts. It’s not limited to who you vote for and who your political friends and enemies are. No, no, no. It extends to money: How you earn it, how much you earn, how much you’re not permitted to earn. It’s not just politics when we’re talking about this leftist attempt at unity.
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RUSH LIMBAUGH: Let me go over some things here just to set the table, give you some things that are gonna shake out today that we’re gonna be talking about. There’s a fascinating thing — it is the most fascinating thing that’s going on out there a long time. Have you heard the story? Do you know the details of what’s going with GameStop?Folks, it’s not just political now. The elites are bent out of shape that a bunch of average, ordinary users have figured out how to make themselves billionaires using – (interruption) I’m gonna explain it. I’m gonna take the time necessary to explain this. You’re damn right. I’ve been studying it all morning. And the best thing I can tell you is that whatever you think is going on in politics — the Washington establishment, the deep state, what have you — it’s the same thing in finance. There are those who are allowed to make all of the money and those of you who aren’t.And if you figure out how to make a lot of money and if you’re like Donald Trump and you figure out how to get elected, you figure out how to beat the deep state, they’re gonna come out and they’re gonna wipe you out; they’re gonna destroy you. That’s what’s happening with GameStop. A bunch of people on Reddit figured out how to game the system. They figured out how to turn the system into a profit-making device for themselves.In the process, they are harming the intended winners in this financial circumstance, and that would be the hedge funds out there. The hedge funds are supposed to be the ones making a lot of money, and they’re not. And they’re begging other hedge funds to bail them out. So, yes, I’m going to explain this. It’s not gonna take a long time, but folks, it’s fascinating. And the reason that it is fascinating is now it’s not just politics.Now they’re not just calling us racists, sexists, bigots, homophobes in a way to control us, in a way to shame us. Now they’re actually making it clear to anybody who has the ability to notice that you’re not allowed to use the stock market the way they do. You’re not allowed to profit. You’re not allowed to make the kind of money they do.The elites — now, I have attempted to explain this over the course of many busy years here on the EIB Network. The notion of being an elite, of being a member of the deep state, the Washington establishment, what is it? It’s many things. Among those many things are perks. And the perks are the ability to guarantee your kids’ financial future, the ability to guarantee yourself a financial future, the ability to guarantee yourself a position of some power, depending on who you are in the establishment, the club of elites, whatever you want to call it.And it extends to far more than just political things. It’s like the Never Trumpers. The Never Trumpers fashion themselves as elites. The Never Trumpers, they played the dutiful losers, lost with honor. The Never Trumpers, the Republicans who hated Donald Trump ’cause he came in and screwed up their position as accepted elites. So they had to fire back at him. And they had a role to play, and for that role, they were rewarded. Banks lent them money or financiers bankrolled their stupid little magazines that nobody read and their cruises and all that, and they were guaranteed a financial foundation. And Trump came in and threatened all of that. He had to go.But this GameStop business now makes this something that is understandable beyond the political world, and that is its value. It’s not just political anymore. It’s not just that you can’t think for yourself on issues and matters of politics. You know, everything is rigged in favor of the elites, and this has come along and upset that rigging. You know, if everything doesn’t benefit the establishment, then it has to be censored, right? Your speech, your attitude, if it doesn’t benefit the establishment, it’s gotta be censored. It’s gotta be canceled. It’s gotta be silenced.Well, now with this GameStop story and the revelations contained in it, the elites, the same people that were hell-bent on getting rid of Donald Trump, the same people are now trying to tell you what you can and can’t do with your money. Not only what you can and can’t think, but it’s now what you can and can’t do with your money.So yes, Mr. Snerdley, I will explain this as the program unfolds. Look. It’s more detailed. Let me give you a couple paragraphs as a stopgap until we get into it as the program unfolds. Some hedge fund managers shorted GameStop’s — now, what is GameStop? What the hell is it? GameStop is a company. This has not been widely explained because the elites don’t take the time to explain this. But let me tell you what it is. GameStop is a company that sells physical copies of video games in dying malls. I mean, they’re an out-of-fashion company. It’s another thing that ticks off the elites. This company is way behind the times. They’re selling physical copies of video games next to all the other dying stores in malls.But right now GameStop has become the most highly traded asset in the United States. GameStop’s stock price was $4 last summer, $20 at the end 2020, is now worth close to $300. And here is a passage from an elitist publication describing it.“Essentially, many normal-ish people have made a huge bet against gigantic [hedge funds] financial institutions and are currently winning. In practice this means we are seeing one of the -” and here is the rub of it, folks. “We are seeing one of the largest wealth transfers from the financial ruling class to the middle and middle-upper classes in recent memory.” And it’s not been authorized, you see. It’s just happening within the normal ebb and flow of the market. Some normalish people figured out how to earn a hell of a lot of money using the establishment’s own methods against them.This is all about “short squeezing” and “short selling,” and if you don’t know what those terms are, hang on, because I will explain those as the program unfolds. But the key to this is the reason why this is a story, the reason why you’re watching — and you know what else is funny?Snerdley had to ask me, “Are you gonna explain it?” ’cause you’ve been watching cable news, and the people in charge of explaining it don’t know what they’re talking about, right? (interruption) Because they only know the establishment view of finance. They only know the elite view, because they think of themselves as elites.The financial people at CNN, financial people MSNBC, they’re really woefully ill-educated on this kind of stuff. So I did a test today. I tried to watch the infobabes at a couple of cable networks explain this. They don’t know what they’re talking about. They’re reading whatever somebody’s written for them on the teleprompter, and they’re using odd facial expressions to make it look like they know what they’re talking about.But the key to this is what has happened: We are seeing one of the largest wealth transfers from the financial ruling class to the middle and upper classes in recent memory, and it’s not authorized. Sometimes the upper class authorizes a transfer of wealth with certain new policies, certain new regulations. This is totally unauthorized. This came about because of the understanding of the system and how to game it by normal people.Right here it is in this story: “Many normal people” have made a huge bet against them, and they’re winning, and because this has been a massive transfer of wealth, it is understandably the only thing anybody’s talking about ’cause it’s unauthorized. “A group of Reddit users who grew up playing video games from GameStop,” that’s how old they are, “decided to beat Wall Street at its own game.”They got together, banded together, and began buying GameStop stocks. That drove the price up. Other regular traders saw the price increase; they began buying, and some real momentum was created. But now the hedge fund guys who sold short are losing their shirts. The hedge fund guys, the elites had planned to sell GameStop short. That means they are counting on GameStop losing money. They only win if GameStop loses.Well, the GameStop stock price was $4 last summer, $20 at the end of 2020, $40 two weeks ago. It was worth $100 on Monday and Tuesday, and today it’s $300. The hedge funds are taking it in the shorts. I mean, big time they are. They’re being wiped out to a certain extent, and they don’t like it. These normal people have figured out a way to do it, and they don’t like it.So they’re asking other hedge funds to bail them out and to stop trading. Like Facebook and Google stop you from commenting, they’re asking other apps that allow this kind of trading activity to stop it. They’re using their power to prevent normal people from trading, from short selling and from taking advantage of the fact that the elites are short selling and short squeezing.So, if you are an elite hedge fund and your position is that you are selling short on GameStop and their stock price has gone from four bucks to 300, you are losing your shirt. You’re losing your pants, you’re losing your underwear, you’re losing your scrotum. You’re losing everything out there. So there is, ladies and gentlemen, an app called Robinhood.Robinhood bills themselves as “democratizing finance for all.” Securities by Robinhood Financial, Crypto by Robinhood Crypto. That’s the app that people are using to bring about this transfer of wealth. So the elites are leaning on Robinhood like Google and so forth leaned on other news organizations to censor conservatives, to wipe them out, to not give them a forum.The same thing has happened. That’s what’s amazing to me about the story: The educational value it has, the informative value it has. It’s not just your political opinions and your political thoughts that are under scrutiny and are essentially being censored. No. Now it’s the way that you invest your money. Oh, yeah! And I can’t…You know, the circumstance here is such a valuable teaching moment. So we will get into this. There’s a little bit more detail to this that I will explain as the program unfolds. Now, the other regular traders that saw these price increases, they began buying. Some real momentum was created. Now the hedge fund guys that sold short are losing their shorts and everything.The Reddit users where all this started — the Reddit users, Robinhood — did nothing illegal. It’s important for you to… No matter what you hear on the news, they have done nothing illegal. They played the same game that hedge fund managers play every day to make a lot of rich people even richer. Yet the markets are now shutting down trades.Like I just explained to you, they’re shutting down trades in GameStop in order to protect the elites. They’re even getting blocked on social media. But when you design and use a system to benefit yourself, don’t complain when it gets used against you, and that is what’s happening here with GameStop. Folks, it’s not some obscure thing involving what young kids are doing.The teachable moment here is how this censorship that we are experiencing from tech media, the tech oligarchs, is not confined to your political thoughts. It’s not limited to who you vote for and who your political friends and enemies are. No, no, no. It extends to money: How you earn it, how much you earn, how much you’re not permitted to earn. It’s not just politics when we’re talking about this leftist attempt at unity.
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"RUSH LIMBAUGH: Let me go over some things here just to set the table, give you some things that are gonna shake out today that we’re gonna be talking about. There’s a fascinating thing — it is the most fascinating thing that’s going on out there a long time. Have you heard the story? Do you know the details of what’s going with GameStop?Folks, it’s not just political now. The elites are bent out of shape that a bunch of average, ordinary users have figured out how to make themselves billionaires using – (interruption) I’m gonna explain it. I’m gonna take the time necessary to explain this. You’re damn right. I’ve been studying it all morning. And the best thing I can tell you is that whatever you think is going on in politics — the Washington establishment, the deep state, what have you — it’s the same thing in finance. There are those who are allowed to make all of the money and those of you who aren’t.And if you figure out how to make a lot of money and if you’re like Donald Trump and you figure out how to get elected, you figure out how to beat the deep state, they’re gonna come out and they’re gonna wipe you out; they’re gonna destroy you. That’s what’s happening with GameStop. A bunch of people on Reddit figured out how to game the system. They figured out how to turn the system into a profit-making device for themselves.In the process, they are harming the intended winners in this financial circumstance, and that would be the hedge funds out there. The hedge funds are supposed to be the ones making a lot of money, and they’re not. And they’re begging other hedge funds to bail them out. So, yes, I’m going to explain this. It’s not gonna take a long time, but folks, it’s fascinating. And the reason that it is fascinating is now it’s not just politics.Now they’re not just calling us racists, sexists, bigots, homophobes in a way to control us, in a way to shame us. Now they’re actually making it clear to anybody who has the ability to notice that you’re not allowed to use the stock market the way they do. You’re not allowed to profit. You’re not allowed to make the kind of money they do.The elites — now, I have attempted to explain this over the course of many busy years here on the EIB Network. The notion of being an elite, of being a member of the deep state, the Washington establishment, what is it? It’s many things. Among those many things are perks. And the perks are the ability to guarantee your kids’ financial future, the ability to guarantee yourself a financial future, the ability to guarantee yourself a position of some power, depending on who you are in the establishment, the club of elites, whatever you want to call it.And it extends to far more than just political things. It’s like the Never Trumpers. The Never Trumpers fashion themselves as elites. The Never Trumpers, they played the dutiful losers, lost with honor. The Never Trumpers, the Republicans who hated Donald Trump ’cause he came in and screwed up their position as accepted elites. So they had to fire back at him. And they had a role to play, and for that role, they were rewarded. Banks lent them money or financiers bankrolled their stupid little magazines that nobody read and their cruises and all that, and they were guaranteed a financial foundation. And Trump came in and threatened all of that. He had to go.But this GameStop business now makes this something that is understandable beyond the political world, and that is its value. It’s not just political anymore. It’s not just that you can’t think for yourself on issues and matters of politics. You know, everything is rigged in favor of the elites, and this has come along and upset that rigging. You know, if everything doesn’t benefit the establishment, then it has to be censored, right? Your speech, your attitude, if it doesn’t benefit the establishment, it’s gotta be censored. It’s gotta be canceled. It’s gotta be silenced.Well, now with this GameStop story and the revelations contained in it, the elites, the same people that were hell-bent on getting rid of Donald Trump, the same people are now trying to tell you what you can and can’t do with your money. Not only what you can and can’t think, but it’s now what you can and can’t do with your money.So yes, Mr. Snerdley, I will explain this as the program unfolds. Look. It’s more detailed. Let me give you a couple paragraphs as a stopgap until we get into it as the program unfolds. Some hedge fund managers shorted GameStop’s — now, what is GameStop? What the hell is it? GameStop is a company. This has not been widely explained because the elites don’t take the time to explain this. But let me tell you what it is. GameStop is a company that sells physical copies of video games in dying malls. I mean, they’re an out-of-fashion company. It’s another thing that ticks off the elites. This company is way behind the times. They’re selling physical copies of video games next to all the other dying stores in malls.But right now GameStop has become the most highly traded asset in the United States. GameStop’s stock price was $4 last summer, $20 at the end 2020, is now worth close to $300. And here is a passage from an elitist publication describing it.“Essentially, many normal-ish people have made a huge bet against gigantic [hedge funds] financial institutions and are currently winning. In practice this means we are seeing one of the -” and here is the rub of it, folks. “We are seeing one of the largest wealth transfers from the financial ruling class to the middle and middle-upper classes in recent memory.” And it’s not been authorized, you see. It’s just happening within the normal ebb and flow of the market. Some normalish people figured out how to earn a hell of a lot of money using the establishment’s own methods against them.This is all about “short squeezing” and “short selling,” and if you don’t know what those terms are, hang on, because I will explain those as the program unfolds. But the key to this is the reason why this is a story, the reason why you’re watching — and you know what else is funny?Snerdley had to ask me, “Are you gonna explain it?” ’cause you’ve been watching cable news, and the people in charge of explaining it don’t know what they’re talking about, right? (interruption) Because they only know the establishment view of finance. They only know the elite view, because they think of themselves as elites.The financial people at CNN, financial people MSNBC, they’re really woefully ill-educated on this kind of stuff. So I did a test today. I tried to watch the infobabes at a couple of cable networks explain this. They don’t know what they’re talking about. They’re reading whatever somebody’s written for them on the teleprompter, and they’re using odd facial expressions to make it look like they know what they’re talking about.But the key to this is what has happened: We are seeing one of the largest wealth transfers from the financial ruling class to the middle and upper classes in recent memory, and it’s not authorized. Sometimes the upper class authorizes a transfer of wealth with certain new policies, certain new regulations. This is totally unauthorized. This came about because of the understanding of the system and how to game it by normal people.Right here it is in this story: “Many normal people” have made a huge bet against them, and they’re winning, and because this has been a massive transfer of wealth, it is understandably the only thing anybody’s talking about ’cause it’s unauthorized. “A group of Reddit users who grew up playing video games from GameStop,” that’s how old they are, “decided to beat Wall Street at its own game.”They got together, banded together, and began buying GameStop stocks. That drove the price up. Other regular traders saw the price increase; they began buying, and some real momentum was created. But now the hedge fund guys who sold short are losing their shirts. The hedge fund guys, the elites had planned to sell GameStop short. That means they are counting on GameStop losing money. They only win if GameStop loses.Well, the GameStop stock price was $4 last summer, $20 at the end of 2020, $40 two weeks ago. It was worth $100 on Monday and Tuesday, and today it’s $300. The hedge funds are taking it in the shorts. I mean, big time they are. They’re being wiped out to a certain extent, and they don’t like it. These normal people have figured out a way to do it, and they don’t like it.So they’re asking other hedge funds to bail them out and to stop trading. Like Facebook and Google stop you from commenting, they’re asking other apps that allow this kind of trading activity to stop it. They’re using their power to prevent normal people from trading, from short selling and from taking advantage of the fact that the elites are short selling and short squeezing.So, if you are an elite hedge fund and your position is that you are selling short on GameStop and their stock price has gone from four bucks to 300, you are losing your shirt. You’re losing your pants, you’re losing your underwear, you’re losing your scrotum. You’re losing everything out there. So there is, ladies and gentlemen, an app called Robinhood.Robinhood bills themselves as “democratizing finance for all.” Securities by Robinhood Financial, Crypto by Robinhood Crypto. That’s the app that people are using to bring about this transfer of wealth. So the elites are leaning on Robinhood like Google and so forth leaned on other news organizations to censor conservatives, to wipe them out, to not give them a forum.The same thing has happened. That’s what’s amazing to me about the story: The educational value it has, the informative value it has. It’s not just your political opinions and your political thoughts that are under scrutiny and are essentially being censored. No. Now it’s the way that you invest your money. Oh, yeah! And I can’t…You know, the circumstance here is such a valuable teaching moment. So we will get into this. There’s a little bit more detail to this that I will explain as the program unfolds. Now, the other regular traders that saw these price increases, they began buying. Some real momentum was created. Now the hedge fund guys that sold short are losing their shorts and everything.The Reddit users where all this started — the Reddit users, Robinhood — did nothing illegal. It’s important for you to… No matter what you hear on the news, they have done nothing illegal. They played the same game that hedge fund managers play every day to make a lot of rich people even richer. Yet the markets are now shutting down trades.Like I just explained to you, they’re shutting down trades in GameStop in order to protect the elites. They’re even getting blocked on social media. But when you design and use a system to benefit yourself, don’t complain when it gets used against you, and that is what’s happening here with GameStop. Folks, it’s not some obscure thing involving what young kids are doing.The teachable moment here is how this censorship that we are experiencing from tech media, the tech oligarchs, is not confined to your political thoughts. It’s not limited to who you vote for and who your political friends and enemies are. No, no, no. It extends to money: How you earn it, how much you earn, how much you’re not permitted to earn. It’s not just politics when we’re talking about this leftist attempt at unity.",
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"RUSH LIMBAUGH: Let me go over some things here just to set the table, give you some things that are gonna shake out today that we’re gonna be talking about. There’s a fascinating thing — it is the most fascinating thing that’s going on out there a long time. Have you heard the story? Do you know the details of what’s going with GameStop?\r\n\r\nFolks, it’s not just political now. The elites are bent out of shape that a bunch of average, ordinary users have figured out how to make themselves billionaires using – (interruption) I’m gonna explain it. I’m gonna take the time necessary to explain this. You’re damn right. I’ve been studying it all morning. And the best thing I can tell you is that whatever you think is going on in politics — the Washington establishment, the deep state, what have you — it’s the same thing in finance. There are those who are allowed to make all of the money and those of you who aren’t.\r\n\r\nAnd if you figure out how to make a lot of money and if you’re like Donald Trump and you figure out how to get elected, you figure out how to beat the deep state, they’re gonna come out and they’re gonna wipe you out; they’re gonna destroy you. That’s what’s happening with GameStop. A bunch of people on Reddit figured out how to game the system. They figured out how to turn the system into a profit-making device for themselves.\r\n\r\nIn the process, they are harming the intended winners in this financial circumstance, and that would be the hedge funds out there. The hedge funds are supposed to be the ones making a lot of money, and they’re not. And they’re begging other hedge funds to bail them out. So, yes, I’m going to explain this. It’s not gonna take a long time, but folks, it’s fascinating. And the reason that it is fascinating is now it’s not just politics.\r\n\r\nNow they’re not just calling us racists, sexists, bigots, homophobes in a way to control us, in a way to shame us. Now they’re actually making it clear to anybody who has the ability to notice that you’re not allowed to use the stock market the way they do. You’re not allowed to profit. You’re not allowed to make the kind of money they do.\r\n\r\nThe elites — now, I have attempted to explain this over the course of many busy years here on the EIB Network. The notion of being an elite, of being a member of the deep state, the Washington establishment, what is it? It’s many things. Among those many things are perks. And the perks are the ability to guarantee your kids’ financial future, the ability to guarantee yourself a financial future, the ability to guarantee yourself a position of some power, depending on who you are in the establishment, the club of elites, whatever you want to call it.\r\n\r\nAnd it extends to far more than just political things. It’s like the Never Trumpers. The Never Trumpers fashion themselves as elites. The Never Trumpers, they played the dutiful losers, lost with honor. The Never Trumpers, the Republicans who hated Donald Trump ’cause he came in and screwed up their position as accepted elites. So they had to fire back at him. And they had a role to play, and for that role, they were rewarded. Banks lent them money or financiers bankrolled their stupid little magazines that nobody read and their cruises and all that, and they were guaranteed a financial foundation. And Trump came in and threatened all of that. He had to go.\r\n\r\nBut this GameStop business now makes this something that is understandable beyond the political world, and that is its value. It’s not just political anymore. It’s not just that you can’t think for yourself on issues and matters of politics. You know, everything is rigged in favor of the elites, and this has come along and upset that rigging. You know, if everything doesn’t benefit the establishment, then it has to be censored, right? Your speech, your attitude, if it doesn’t benefit the establishment, it’s gotta be censored. It’s gotta be canceled. It’s gotta be silenced.\r\n\r\nWell, now with this GameStop story and the revelations contained in it, the elites, the same people that were hell-bent on getting rid of Donald Trump, the same people are now trying to tell you what you can and can’t do with your money. Not only what you can and can’t think, but it’s now what you can and can’t do with your money.\r\n\r\nSo yes, Mr. Snerdley, I will explain this as the program unfolds. Look. It’s more detailed. Let me give you a couple paragraphs as a stopgap until we get into it as the program unfolds. Some hedge fund managers shorted GameStop’s — now, what is GameStop? What the hell is it? GameStop is a company. This has not been widely explained because the elites don’t take the time to explain this. But let me tell you what it is. GameStop is a company that sells physical copies of video games in dying malls. I mean, they’re an out-of-fashion company. It’s another thing that ticks off the elites. This company is way behind the times. They’re selling physical copies of video games next to all the other dying stores in malls.\r\n\r\nBut right now GameStop has become the most highly traded asset in the United States. GameStop’s stock price was $4 last summer, $20 at the end 2020, is now worth close to $300. And here is a passage from an elitist publication describing it.\r\n\r\n“Essentially, many normal-ish people have made a huge bet against gigantic [hedge funds] financial institutions and are currently winning. In practice this means we are seeing one of the -” and here is the rub of it, folks. “We are seeing one of the largest wealth transfers from the financial ruling class to the middle and middle-upper classes in recent memory.” And it’s not been authorized, you see. It’s just happening within the normal ebb and flow of the market. Some normalish people figured out how to earn a hell of a lot of money using the establishment’s own methods against them.\r\n\r\nThis is all about “short squeezing” and “short selling,” and if you don’t know what those terms are, hang on, because I will explain those as the program unfolds. But the key to this is the reason why this is a story, the reason why you’re watching — and you know what else is funny?\r\n\r\nSnerdley had to ask me, “Are you gonna explain it?” ’cause you’ve been watching cable news, and the people in charge of explaining it don’t know what they’re talking about, right? (interruption) Because they only know the establishment view of finance. They only know the elite view, because they think of themselves as elites.\r\n\r\nThe financial people at CNN, financial people MSNBC, they’re really woefully ill-educated on this kind of stuff. So I did a test today. I tried to watch the infobabes at a couple of cable networks explain this. They don’t know what they’re talking about. They’re reading whatever somebody’s written for them on the teleprompter, and they’re using odd facial expressions to make it look like they know what they’re talking about.\r\n\r\nBut the key to this is what has happened: We are seeing one of the largest wealth transfers from the financial ruling class to the middle and upper classes in recent memory, and it’s not authorized. Sometimes the upper class authorizes a transfer of wealth with certain new policies, certain new regulations. This is totally unauthorized. This came about because of the understanding of the system and how to game it by normal people.\r\n\r\nRight here it is in this story: “Many normal people” have made a huge bet against them, and they’re winning, and because this has been a massive transfer of wealth, it is understandably the only thing anybody’s talking about ’cause it’s unauthorized. “A group of Reddit users who grew up playing video games from GameStop,” that’s how old they are, “decided to beat Wall Street at its own game.”\r\n\r\nThey got together, banded together, and began buying GameStop stocks. That drove the price up. Other regular traders saw the price increase; they began buying, and some real momentum was created. But now the hedge fund guys who sold short are losing their shirts. The hedge fund guys, the elites had planned to sell GameStop short. That means they are counting on GameStop losing money. They only win if GameStop loses.\r\n\r\nWell, the GameStop stock price was $4 last summer, $20 at the end of 2020, $40 two weeks ago. It was worth $100 on Monday and Tuesday, and today it’s $300. The hedge funds are taking it in the shorts. I mean, big time they are. They’re being wiped out to a certain extent, and they don’t like it. These normal people have figured out a way to do it, and they don’t like it.\r\n\r\nSo they’re asking other hedge funds to bail them out and to stop trading. Like Facebook and Google stop you from commenting, they’re asking other apps that allow this kind of trading activity to stop it. They’re using their power to prevent normal people from trading, from short selling and from taking advantage of the fact that the elites are short selling and short squeezing.\r\n\r\nSo, if you are an elite hedge fund and your position is that you are selling short on GameStop and their stock price has gone from four bucks to 300, you are losing your shirt. You’re losing your pants, you’re losing your underwear, you’re losing your scrotum. You’re losing everything out there. So there is, ladies and gentlemen, an app called Robinhood.\r\n\r\nRobinhood bills themselves as “democratizing finance for all.” Securities by Robinhood Financial, Crypto by Robinhood Crypto. That’s the app that people are using to bring about this transfer of wealth. So the elites are leaning on Robinhood like Google and so forth leaned on other news organizations to censor conservatives, to wipe them out, to not give them a forum.\r\n\r\nThe same thing has happened. That’s what’s amazing to me about the story: The educational value it has, the informative value it has. It’s not just your political opinions and your political thoughts that are under scrutiny and are essentially being censored. No. Now it’s the way that you invest your money. Oh, yeah! And I can’t…\r\n\r\nYou know, the circumstance here is such a valuable teaching moment. So we will get into this. There’s a little bit more detail to this that I will explain as the program unfolds. Now, the other regular traders that saw these price increases, they began buying. Some real momentum was created. Now the hedge fund guys that sold short are losing their shorts and everything.\r\n\r\nThe Reddit users where all this started — the Reddit users, Robinhood — did nothing illegal. It’s important for you to… No matter what you hear on the news, they have done nothing illegal. They played the same game that hedge fund managers play every day to make a lot of rich people even richer. Yet the markets are now shutting down trades.\r\n\r\nLike I just explained to you, they’re shutting down trades in GameStop in order to protect the elites. They’re even getting blocked on social media. But when you design and use a system to benefit yourself, don’t complain when it gets used against you, and that is what’s happening here with GameStop. Folks, it’s not some obscure thing involving what young kids are doing.\r\n\r\nThe teachable moment here is how this censorship that we are experiencing from tech media, the tech oligarchs, is not confined to your political thoughts. It’s not limited to who you vote for and who your political friends and enemies are. No, no, no. It extends to money: How you earn it, how much you earn, how much you’re not permitted to earn. It’s not just politics when we’re talking about this leftist attempt at unity."
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Three crippling trends in our country must be addressed to minimize the cycle of poverty and despair.
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As the political right struggles to regroup after the horrible events at the U.S. Capitol, it should learn from the masters. The left has a consistent pattern...
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As the political right struggles to regroup after the horrible events at the U.S. Capitol, it should learn from the masters. The left has a consistent pattern when responding to terrible behavior by activists associated with their cause — from the widespread destruction and violence last summer during protests of police brutality to mobbing Republican senators during the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings to the Bernie Sanders acolyte who opened fire at GOP members of Congress in 2017.
The left starts by driving the narrative that their protests or movements were mostly peaceful while amplifying participants’ concerns to give them legitimacy. They downplay any violence, positioning it as nothing to do with them, a distraction from the cause. Having disassociated themselves from the bad behavior, they never act embarrassed.
Compare this to those on the right: Everyone has unambiguously condemned the rioters in the Capitol, as they should. But many have fallen into the trap of accepting that they ought to be embarrassed, as though the rioters represented them, or even most Trump supporters, neither of which is the case. Nor have they defended the right to protest and the importance of recognizing and hearing concerns. Failing to do so has allowed the false equivalence between the rioters and the Trump supporters who were protesting to advance their concerns about election fraud, even though the vast majority of those in Washington on Jan. 6 were peaceful people who revere the Constitution.
The left has used those missteps to play a semantic game of expanding definitions and thus tar an ever widening circle. They start with the remarkable premise that there were no election shenanigans whatsoever, and consequently that it’s heresy to question rule changes or unrequested mailed ballots. Why? To label legitimate issues as merely a “fringe” contentions.
Over the course of a week we’ve watched this metastasizing of definitions — President Trump “should have known” what his statements would lead to became “he deliberately incited” the rioting. And assertions that “everyone should have known” was expanded to “everyone who supported Trump incited the violence,” which led to “those who were silent and didn’t oppose Trump are enablers” and -- when you are on a roll, why stop? -- that conservatives are nascent Nazis.
With blame comes punishment — not just deserved penalties for the rioters but threatened retaliation, starting with employment prospects, against the peaceful protesters, those who worked for the administration, and now even anyone who supported Trump and his policies.
They are also ratcheting up censorship of conservatives by de-platforming the president and tens of thousands of others, shutting down alternate platforms, and revoking book publishing deals, all by applying standards that magically do not pertain to others.
Most toxic is the assault on speech through redefinition — it is no longer what was said or intended, it is how it might be interpreted. That subjective non-standard gives an excuse to those on the left to define what constitutes permitted opinion, not just on this matter but a range of issues where disagreement will be labeled as dangerous.
The implications of that are dire. It will mean the left can use social pressure against cowering corporations, and foundations, to cut off the oxygen of speech and commerce — not just access to social media platforms or hosting servers, but also banking services and funding — for individuals and organizations with a different view.
To prevent this, the right needs to defend the peaceful participants and their right to protest, explain the roots of their deep legitimate concern (years of fake news, social media suppression, and election rule overrides and ballot proliferation), and use this as an opportunity to unite, not divide.
Some conservative leaders and commentators, especially Never Trumpers, seem to see this as an opportunity to purge the movement of everyone associated with Trump and mistakenly presume that by feeding him and his allies to the alligator, they will be allowed to escape and achieve the left’s promised unity.
But as the social media putsch shows, this kind of “unity” really means “accept your guilt and be silenced.” With Trump out of the White House, the alligator won’t go away; his menu will simply shift to any others who won’t shut up and “unify.” The penalty: their platforms, social standing, and sources of funding will all be cut off.
Efforts to force the 74 million people who voted for Trump over Joe Biden to feel ashamed and responsible or to publicly punish and silence their advocates, will be devastating not just to the Republican Party but to our country. We must instead regroup around our positive agenda, defend the tremendous policy gains that have been made — and stand strongly for the right of free speech and association, applied with neutral rules to everyone, including conservatives.
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What Republicans Are Doing Is Worse Than Treason | RealClearPolitics
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What Republicans Are Doing Is Worse Than Treason
No amount of rationalizing can change the fact that the majority of the Republican Party is advocating for the overthrow of an American election.
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Dr. Martin Luther King's Letter From Birmingham Jail | RealClearPolitics
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In 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was behind bars in Alabama as a result of his continuing crusade for civil rights. While there, he was the subject of criticism by eight white clergymen, who called his protests and demonstrations unwise and untimely. In response, King wrote a letter from Birmingham City Jail, noting, I guess it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, 'Wait.'
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In December of 2019, President Trump tweeted a picture of himself bracketed by an unpunctuated caption. “In reality they’re not after me” it read. “They’re after you I’m just in the way.”
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A Premeditated Election Lie Lit the Fire | RealClearPolitics
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A Premeditated Election Lie Lit the Fire
Axios takes you inside the collapse with a special series.
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As the world adjusts to a Twitter without @realdonaldtrump, the next big question is: Now what?
Major tech platforms, long accused of giving President...
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As the world adjusts to a Twitter without @realdonaldtrump, the next big question is: “Now what?”
Major tech platforms, long accused of giving President Donald Trump special treatment not allotted to regular users, have shown him the door in the wake of his incitement of violence by supporters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. He’s gone from Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat — even Shopify.
But in many ways, booting the president was the easy part.
Will companies now hold other world leaders to the same standard? Will they wade further into deciding what is and isn’t allowed on their platforms, potentially alienating large swaths of their user base? Will all this lead to further online splintering, pushing those flirting with extreme views to fringe sites and secret chat groups
Although they’ve long sought to remain neutral, Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms are slowly waking up to the active role they and their algorithms have played in shaping a modern world filled with polarized, angry groups and huge factions falling for bogus conspiracies and misinformation about science, politics and medicine.
“What we’re seeing is a shift from the platforms from a stance of free-speech absolutism, towards an understanding of speech moderation as a matter of public health,” said civic media professor Ethan Zuckerman of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
None of this can be fixed soon, if ever. Certainly not by blocking a president with just a few days left in his term.
But there are blueprints for future action. Remember “Plandemic?” That was the slickly-produced, 26-minute, misinformation-ridden video promoting COVID-19 conspiracies that emerged seemingly out of nowhere and racked up millions of views in a matter of days. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube scrambled to take it down — too late. But they were ready for the sequel, which failed to attract even a fraction of the attention of the first.
“Sharing disinformation about COVID is a danger because it makes it harder for us to fight the disease,” Zuckerman said. “Similarly, sharing disinformation about voting is an attack on our democracy.”
Unsurprisingly, it’s been easier for tech giants to act decisively on matters of public health than on politics. Corporate bans of the U.S. president and his supporters have led to loud, if generally unfounded, cries of censorship as well as charges of left-wing bias. It’s even attracted criticism from European leaders such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel — not exactly a friend of Trump’s.
Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said freedom of opinion is a fundamental right of “elementary significance.”
“This fundamental right can be intervened in, but according to the law and within the framework defined by legislators — not according to a decision by the management of social media platforms,” he told reporters in Berlin. “Seen from this angle, the chancellor considers it problematic that the accounts of the U.S. president have now been permanently blocked.”
From that German perspective, it should be the government, and not private companies like Facebook and Twitter, who decides what counts as dangerous speech on social platforms. That approach might be feasible in Europe, but it’s much more complicated in the U.S., where the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects freedom of expression from government interference, although not from corporate policy on privately owned communication platforms.
Governments, of course, remain free to regulate tech companies, another area of ferment. Over the past year, Trump, other Republicans and some Democrats have called for revoking a fundamental 1996 legal provision known as Section 230. That protects social platforms, which can host trillions of messages, from being sued into oblivion by anyone who feels wronged by something someone else has posted. But so far there’s been more heat than light on the issue.
Still, few are happy with the often sluggish, after-the-fact, three-strikes takedowns and suspensions that have characterized Twitter and Facebook for years. Particularly in the light of the Capitol insurrection, the deadly Charlottesville rally in 2017 and live-streamed mass shootings.
Sarita Schoenebeck, University of Michigan professor who focuses on online harassment, said it might be time for platforms to reevaluate how they approach problematic material on their sites.
“For years, platforms have evaluated what kinds of content are appropriate or not by evaluating the content in isolation, without considering the broader social and cultural context that it takes place in,” she said. “We need to revisit this approach. We should rely on a combination of democratic principles, community governance and platform rules to shape behavior.”
Jared Schroeder, an expert in social media and the First Amendment at Southern Methodist University, thinks the Trump bans will encourage his base of followers to move towards other social platforms where they can organize and communicate with fewer — if any — restrictions.
“It’s likely the bans will fuel the us-against-them narrative – and it’s also likely other forums will get a boost in traffic, as we saw after the 2020 election,” he said. “The bans have taken away the best tools for organizing people and for Trump to speak to the largest audiences, but these are by no means the only tools.”
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Will all this lead to further online splintering, pushing those flirting with extreme views to fringe sites and secret chat groups\nAlthough they’ve long sought to remain neutral, Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms are slowly waking up to the active role they and their algorithms have played in shaping a modern world filled with polarized, angry groups and huge factions falling for bogus conspiracies and misinformation about science, politics and medicine.\n“What we’re seeing is a shift from the platforms from a stance of free-speech absolutism, towards an understanding of speech moderation as a matter of public health,” said civic media professor Ethan Zuckerman of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.\nNone of this can be fixed soon, if ever. Certainly not by blocking a president with just a few days left in his term.\nBut there are blueprints for future action. Remember “Plandemic?” That was the slickly-produced, 26-minute, misinformation-ridden video promoting COVID-19 conspiracies that emerged seemingly out of nowhere and racked up millions of views in a matter of days. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube scrambled to take it down — too late. But they were ready for the sequel, which failed to attract even a fraction of the attention of the first.\n“Sharing disinformation about COVID is a danger because it makes it harder for us to fight the disease,” Zuckerman said. “Similarly, sharing disinformation about voting is an attack on our democracy.”\nUnsurprisingly, it’s been easier for tech giants to act decisively on matters of public health than on politics. Corporate bans of the U.S. president and his supporters have led to loud, if generally unfounded, cries of censorship as well as charges of left-wing bias. It’s even attracted criticism from European leaders such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel — not exactly a friend of Trump’s.\nMerkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said freedom of opinion is a fundamental right of “elementary significance.”\n“This fundamental right can be intervened in, but according to the law and within the framework defined by legislators — not according to a decision by the management of social media platforms,” he told reporters in Berlin. “Seen from this angle, the chancellor considers it problematic that the accounts of the U.S. president have now been permanently blocked.”\nFrom that German perspective, it should be the government, and not private companies like Facebook and Twitter, who decides what counts as dangerous speech on social platforms. That approach might be feasible in Europe, but it’s much more complicated in the U.S., where the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects freedom of expression from government interference, although not from corporate policy on privately owned communication platforms.\nGovernments, of course, remain free to regulate tech companies, another area of ferment. Over the past year, Trump, other Republicans and some Democrats have called for revoking a fundamental 1996 legal provision known as Section 230. That protects social platforms, which can host trillions of messages, from being sued into oblivion by anyone who feels wronged by something someone else has posted. But so far there’s been more heat than light on the issue.\nStill, few are happy with the often sluggish, after-the-fact, three-strikes takedowns and suspensions that have characterized Twitter and Facebook for years. Particularly in the light of the Capitol insurrection, the deadly Charlottesville rally in 2017 and live-streamed mass shootings.\nSarita Schoenebeck, University of Michigan professor who focuses on online harassment, said it might be time for platforms to reevaluate how they approach problematic material on their sites.\n“For years, platforms have evaluated what kinds of content are appropriate or not by evaluating the content in isolation, without considering the broader social and cultural context that it takes place in,” she said. “We need to revisit this approach. We should rely on a combination of democratic principles, community governance and platform rules to shape behavior.”\nJared Schroeder, an expert in social media and the First Amendment at Southern Methodist University, thinks the Trump bans will encourage his base of followers to move towards other social platforms where they can organize and communicate with fewer — if any — restrictions.\n“It’s likely the bans will fuel the us-against-them narrative – and it’s also likely other forums will get a boost in traffic, as we saw after the 2020 election,” he said. “The bans have taken away the best tools for organizing people and for Trump to speak to the largest audiences, but these are by no means the only tools.”",
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Refuse to Be Silenced | RealClearPolitics
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Parler's gone for now, the victim of a conspiracy to silence, but it will return. The fascists can try, but they can't shut us up forever. Truth flows like water
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The sum total of a Biden China policy at this point seems to be multilateralism. Toward what end, we have not the faintest idea.
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When Mob Inciters Become Lions of the Left | RealClearPolitics
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When Mob Inciters Become Lions of the Left
An Aaron Sorkin film celebrates the Chicago Seven for plotting an attack on a party convention.
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WASHINGTON (AP) Nancy Pelosi was narrowly reelected Sunday as speaker, giving her the reins of Democrats slender House majority as she and...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Nancy Pelosi was narrowly reelected Sunday as speaker, giving her the reins of Democrats’ slender House majority as she and President-elect Joe Biden set a challenging course of producing legislation to tackle the pandemic, revive the economy and address other party priorities.
“We accept a responsibility as daunting and demanding as any that previous generations of leadership have faced,” the California Democrat told the chamber as she accepted a fresh two-year term in her post, perhaps her last. Citing the 350,000 Americans who’ve died from COVID-19 and the millions who’ve lost jobs and livelihoods, she won a standing ovation when she said, “Our most urgent priority will continue to be defeating the coronavirus. And defeat it, we will.”
Yet even before House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., ceremonially handed her the speaker’s gavel — a normally genial moment — he provided a stark reminder of the partisan divide coloring Congress.
McCarthy accused Pelosi of over the past two years leading “the least productive Congress in nearly 50 years” and said there was a clear message in last November’s elections, when Republicans gained seats by defeating a dozen Democratic incumbents. “It was a wake-up call,” he said. “The question I ask of this majority: were you listening?”
Those are assertions that Democrats strongly dispute, saying it’s Republicans, especially in the GOP-led Senate, who’ve blocked progress on pandemic aid and other issues.
Pelosi, who has led her party in the House since 2003 and is the only woman to be speaker, received 216 votes to 209 for McCarthy, who again will be the chamber’s minority leader.
It was the first vote of the new Congress, which convened Sunday with COVID-19 guidelines requiring testing and face coverings for lawmakers. There was widespread mask-wearing and far fewer legislators and guests in the chamber than usual, an unimaginable tableau when the last Congress commenced two years ago, before the pandemic struck.
Pelosi’s election came 17 days before Biden is inaugurated. Yet rather than a fresh start for him and Pelosi, there are issues and undercurrents that will carry over from President Donald Trump’s tempestuous administration.
Though Congress enacted — and Trump finally signed — a $900 billion COVID-19 relief package late last month, Biden and many Democrats say they consider that measure a down payment. They say more aid is needed to bolster efforts to vaccinate the public, curb the virus and restore jobs and businesses lost to the pandemic.
Biden’s priorities also include efforts on health care and the environment.
Guiding such legislation through the House will be a challenge for Pelosi because her party’s narrow majority means just a handful of defectors could be fatal.
In addition, cooperation with Republicans could be made more difficult as many in the GOP are continuing to demonstrate fealty to the divisive Trump, backing his unfounded claims that his reelection loss was tainted by fraud. Congress will meet Wednesday to officially affirm Biden’s clear Electoral College victory over Trump. Many House and Senate Republicans say they will contest the validity of some of those votes, but their efforts are certain to fail.
There was no widespread fraud in the election, which a range of election officials across the country including Trump’s former attorney general, William Barr, have confirmed. Republican governors in Arizona and Georgia, key battleground states crucial to Biden’s victory, have also vouched for the integrity of the elections in their states. Nearly all the legal challenges from Trump and his allies have been dismissed by judges, including two tossed by the Supreme Court, which includes three Trump-nominated justices.
In another hurdle for Democrats, it’s not clear which party will control the Senate. Republicans will control it unless Democrats win both Senate runoff elections in Georgia on Tuesday.
To win, Pelosi had to overcome some Democratic grumbling about her longevity, a slim 222-211 edge over Republicans after November’s elections and a handful of absences because of the coronavirus. There were two vacancies in the 435-member House, and whatever happens Democrats will have the smallest House majority in two decades.
With little margin for error, Pelosi suffered only a handful of Democratic defections in her latest display of her ability to line up support, and no opponent challenged her for the job. She has won plaudits from Democrats for leading their opposition to President Donald Trump, largely keeping her party’s moderates and progressives united and raising mountains of campaign funds.
“She’s had one finger in the dike and one finger in the eye of Donald Trump,” said Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-Va.
But she’s 80 years old, and ambitious younger members continue chafing at the longtime hold she and other older top leaders have had on their jobs. Democrats were also angry after an Election Day that many expected would to mean added House seats for the party but instead saw a dozen incumbents lose, without defeating a single GOP representative.
In the end, Rep. Jared Golden, D-Me., voted for Illinois Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth — the Constitution doesn’t require the speaker to be a House member. Rep. Conor Lamb, D-Pa., voted for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., who is seen as a strong contender to succeed Pelosi whenever she steps down.
Three Democrats who opposed Pelosi’s election as speaker two years ago voted present on Sunday — Reps. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey, Abigail Spanberger of Virginia and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, and five others who opposed her in 2019 back her this time. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., who has been battling cancer, missed the vote.
Democrats gave Pelosi a standing ovation as the final tally was announced, while the Republican side of the chamber was nearly empty. The vote took over two-and-a-half hours, an unusually long time as lawmakers were divided into groups to reduce health risks.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., a progressive leader, backed Pelosi and told reporters that Democratic unity was important “at a time when the Republican Party is attempting an electoral coup.” She referred to the support many congressional Republicans are giving outgoing President Donald Trump’s baseless effort to reverse the election results.
Ocasio-Cortez said she and other progressives “have been in conversations and negotiations” with Pelosi, but did not describe what they accomplished.
With every vote at a premium, workers had constructed an enclosure in a balcony overlooking the House chamber so lawmakers exposed to or testing positive for the coronavirus could more safely vote.
In the House, one race in New York is still being decided and there is a vacancy in Louisiana after GOP Rep.-elect Luke Letlow, 41, died after contracting COVID-19.
AP Congressional Correspondent Lisa Mascaro and AP writer Andrew Taylor contributed to this report.
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And defeat it, we will.”\nYet even before House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., ceremonially handed her the speaker’s gavel — a normally genial moment — he provided a stark reminder of the partisan divide coloring Congress.\nMcCarthy accused Pelosi of over the past two years leading “the least productive Congress in nearly 50 years” and said there was a clear message in last November’s elections, when Republicans gained seats by defeating a dozen Democratic incumbents. “It was a wake-up call,” he said. “The question I ask of this majority: were you listening?”\nThose are assertions that Democrats strongly dispute, saying it’s Republicans, especially in the GOP-led Senate, who’ve blocked progress on pandemic aid and other issues.\nPelosi, who has led her party in the House since 2003 and is the only woman to be speaker, received 216 votes to 209 for McCarthy, who again will be the chamber’s minority leader.\nIt was the first vote of the new Congress, which convened Sunday with COVID-19 guidelines requiring testing and face coverings for lawmakers. There was widespread mask-wearing and far fewer legislators and guests in the chamber than usual, an unimaginable tableau when the last Congress commenced two years ago, before the pandemic struck.\nPelosi’s election came 17 days before Biden is inaugurated. Yet rather than a fresh start for him and Pelosi, there are issues and undercurrents that will carry over from President Donald Trump’s tempestuous administration.\nThough Congress enacted — and Trump finally signed — a $900 billion COVID-19 relief package late last month, Biden and many Democrats say they consider that measure a down payment. They say more aid is needed to bolster efforts to vaccinate the public, curb the virus and restore jobs and businesses lost to the pandemic.\nBiden’s priorities also include efforts on health care and the environment.\nGuiding such legislation through the House will be a challenge for Pelosi because her party’s narrow majority means just a handful of defectors could be fatal.\nIn addition, cooperation with Republicans could be made more difficult as many in the GOP are continuing to demonstrate fealty to the divisive Trump, backing his unfounded claims that his reelection loss was tainted by fraud. Congress will meet Wednesday to officially affirm Biden’s clear Electoral College victory over Trump. Many House and Senate Republicans say they will contest the validity of some of those votes, but their efforts are certain to fail.\nThere was no widespread fraud in the election, which a range of election officials across the country including Trump’s former attorney general, William Barr, have confirmed. Republican governors in Arizona and Georgia, key battleground states crucial to Biden’s victory, have also vouched for the integrity of the elections in their states. Nearly all the legal challenges from Trump and his allies have been dismissed by judges, including two tossed by the Supreme Court, which includes three Trump-nominated justices.\nIn another hurdle for Democrats, it’s not clear which party will control the Senate. Republicans will control it unless Democrats win both Senate runoff elections in Georgia on Tuesday.\nTo win, Pelosi had to overcome some Democratic grumbling about her longevity, a slim 222-211 edge over Republicans after November’s elections and a handful of absences because of the coronavirus. There were two vacancies in the 435-member House, and whatever happens Democrats will have the smallest House majority in two decades.\nWith little margin for error, Pelosi suffered only a handful of Democratic defections in her latest display of her ability to line up support, and no opponent challenged her for the job. She has won plaudits from Democrats for leading their opposition to President Donald Trump, largely keeping her party’s moderates and progressives united and raising mountains of campaign funds.\n“She’s had one finger in the dike and one finger in the eye of Donald Trump,” said Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-Va.\nBut she’s 80 years old, and ambitious younger members continue chafing at the longtime hold she and other older top leaders have had on their jobs. Democrats were also angry after an Election Day that many expected would to mean added House seats for the party but instead saw a dozen incumbents lose, without defeating a single GOP representative.\nIn the end, Rep. Jared Golden, D-Me., voted for Illinois Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth — the Constitution doesn’t require the speaker to be a House member. Rep. Conor Lamb, D-Pa., voted for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., who is seen as a strong contender to succeed Pelosi whenever she steps down.\nThree Democrats who opposed Pelosi’s election as speaker two years ago voted present on Sunday — Reps. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey, Abigail Spanberger of Virginia and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, and five others who opposed her in 2019 back her this time. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., who has been battling cancer, missed the vote.\nDemocrats gave Pelosi a standing ovation as the final tally was announced, while the Republican side of the chamber was nearly empty. The vote took over two-and-a-half hours, an unusually long time as lawmakers were divided into groups to reduce health risks.\nRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., a progressive leader, backed Pelosi and told reporters that Democratic unity was important “at a time when the Republican Party is attempting an electoral coup.” She referred to the support many congressional Republicans are giving outgoing President Donald Trump’s baseless effort to reverse the election results.\nOcasio-Cortez said she and other progressives “have been in conversations and negotiations” with Pelosi, but did not describe what they accomplished.\nWith every vote at a premium, workers had constructed an enclosure in a balcony overlooking the House chamber so lawmakers exposed to or testing positive for the coronavirus could more safely vote.\nIn the House, one race in New York is still being decided and there is a vacancy in Louisiana after GOP Rep.-elect Luke Letlow, 41, died after contracting COVID-19.\nAP Congressional Correspondent Lisa Mascaro and AP writer Andrew Taylor contributed to this report.",
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As COVID-19 mutates, it's becoming more contagious than the virus that invaded the U.S. about a year ago. A trip to the grocery with a mask on, which used to...
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As COVID-19 mutates, it's becoming more contagious than the virus that invaded the U.S. about a year ago. A trip to the grocery with a mask on, which used to be low risk, is becoming riskier.
As cases and deaths increase rapidly, people are scared and upset. They're spending hours on websites and hotlines struggling unsuccessfully to get vaccine appointments.
President-elect Joe Biden's vaccine distribution plan, which he announced Friday, doesn't offer them much hope. Biden said he'll open 100 federal vaccine sites in school gyms, community centers and stadiums the first month. That's for the entire nation.
We're in a war with a deadly disease. Biden's plan is like fighting back with a peashooter.
Almost as many Americans have died from COVID-19 in the last year as were killed in all the years of World War II. It's time to mount a D-Day scale response.
The U.S. needs to vaccinate 1.8 million people a day to achieve herd immunity by July. That's far more than Biden's goal of 1 million shots a day. Dodger Stadium can host 12,000 vaccinations a day. So 150 stadium-size sites are needed, vaccinating round the clock.
To accommodate the elderly, many venues should be first come, first served. Asking 70- and 80-year-olds to navigate complicated websites to make appointments is preposterously impractical.
To fight COVID-19, Biden also needs to defy the open borders flank of his party and make it clear that caravans of Central American migrants will not be allowed into the U.S. Last week, a Biden transition official said it, but Biden himself needs to say it forcefully enough to be heard below the Rio Grande. A caravan is pushing northward right now, posing a public health threat.
Air travelers to the U.S. have to show a negative COVID-19 test before boarding, quarantine on arrival and then get retested. Why should migrants be an exception?
Biden made fighting COVID-19 the centerpiece of his campaign, yet even as he takes office, he's short on details. The virus isn't waiting.
"Ominous" is how Dr. Anthony Fauci describes the emerging strains. A newly identified variant in Brazil can reinfect people who have already had COVID. The U.K. is so fearful that it blocked all flights from South America last week.
Meanwhile, a British strain that spreads fast because it causes more virus in the nose has invaded the U.S. Eighteen cases have been detected in New York. It's 50 to 70% more contagious than the original virus, and it will become the dominant strain by March, predicts the CDC. A highly infectious, homegrown U.S. strain is also causing cases to surge, reports Southern Illinois University researchers. The enemy is growing fiercer.
The good news is the U.S. has adequate vaccines in the pipeline. The federal government purchased 400 million doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, enough to vaccinate 200 million people. Both vaccines require two shots. Johnson & Johnson will seek FDA authorization for its vaccine by March. And a vaccine by AstraZeneca isn't far behind. Fauci has indicated there will be enough.
The problem is political bungling. CDC figures show about 60% of doses already sent to the states are still unused, including in New York. Yet Gov. Andrew Cuomo claims he's "moved heaven and earth" and is "getting shots in arms as quickly and efficiently as possible." Who is he kidding?
New York is opening a handful of mass vaccination sites now, after weeks of inaction, but seniors are still frantically trying to score appointments.
Meanwhile, Cuomo wants a "New York Arts Revival" this spring with 100 performances in venues such as the Park Avenue Armory. Sorry, Governor, but saving lives comes first. Turn the Armory into a vaccine megasite. Then when New Yorkers are safe, they can resume celebrating the arts.
Cuomo's lopsided priorities are an example of why the buck now stops with Biden. The new president needs to see the urgency, think big and act quickly.
COPYRIGHT 2021 CREATORS.COM
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Purging MAGA Guarantees No GOP President Before 2037 | RealClearPolitics
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Trying to destroy Trump and Trump's movement will fail, splitting the Republican Party and leading to many years of Democratic Party domination.
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The Case for One More Child | RealClearPolitics
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The Case for One More Child
Ross Douthat: Our society's future would be radically different if people simply had as many kids as they desire. What's stopping them?
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The Next Border Crisis Will Be Biden's | RealClearPolitics
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The Next Border Crisis Will Be Biden's
By relaxing enforcement, the incoming administration will invite mass suffering in the name of compassion.
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Isolation Has Taken a Tremendous Toll on Older Americans | RealClearPolitics
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As the country plunged into a deep and unusual economic recession last year, it also plunged into a deep and unusual social recession: atomizing families and friends, evaporating hours of laughter and care and touch.
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Trump's Exit and the Dangers of an Emboldened Left | RealClearPolitics
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Trump's Exit and the Dangers of an Emboldened Left
Encouraging a mob to target his own allies and disrupt the rule of law, the president has ended his tenure disgracefully—and emboldened the Left.
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Why Trump Lost...But Almost Won | RealClearPolitics
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In the wake of the presidential election half of our divided nation asked, incredulously: how did Donald Trump lose? Equally incredulously, the other half asked: how could he have almost won?
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No Unity Until Morally Bankrupt Republicans Repent | RealClearPolitics
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The people who have supported Trump need to come to terms with what they've done and with what they've allowed to happen — or it will happen again.
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Biden's Job-Killing War on the Energy Industry | RealClearPolitics
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Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy posted a video on Twitter about the recent investing restrictions placed on GameStop.
PORTNOY: What is going on Wall Street? The way they have absolutely cheated, stolen, robbed everyday people who have been investing with Robinhood and other e-trade accounts and all this stuff. By saying "hey, hedge funds are getting smoked, billionaires are getting smoked. So we are no longer going to let you trade on certain stocks GME, AMC, we are just shutting them off. You can't buy those stocks anymore, you can only sell them, we are going to craft those stocks so all our hedge fund billionaire friends can get out and not get killed." It is one of the most remarkable, illegal, shocking robberies in plain sight. No close door meetings, nothing behind, just right in your face putting a gun in your mouth and saying "give us all your money." That is what Robinhood, the Citadel, Ken Griffin, Steve Cohen are doing.
They couldn't take that people on wallstreetbets, reddit, DDTG, fairly, open trade saying "we are going to buy this stock. Fair and square, we know there's risk, it is going up we know we are risking our own money but we want to do it." To then say "sorry you can't do this anymore, we are going to crash and tank the market because our billionaire hedge funds have shorted these and we don't want them to lose." Suddenly volatility we can't let you do it, we can't let you invest and put your money at risk. They have no problem when the hedge fund do it. When the hedge funds risk their firms and their lively hoods that's fine. When the everyday Jimmy and Joe want to do it, it's a problem they got to protect you. They are robbing you, they are stealing from you, this is criminal.
The Robinhood CEOs they belong in jail. Ken Griffin, I just posted an article he made 6.7 billion on the volatility of the pandemic. Now the volatility is a problem because they are losing, jail. This is criminal, and the scariest thing is it's in plain sight. They don't want you to win because they want to save their yachts, their mansions, and everything else they have. It's okay for them to risk money and make money but if you risk money and make money we can't allow that. The only people who are smart enough, who are allowed to risk more than they have are the hedge funds and the billionaires. And if they lose we are going to save them at your expense, we are going to put the gun in your mouth and we are going to take your money and give it back to the billionaires because only they can make money.
I have never seen anything quit like this, it's shocking, and the fact that they clearly, Robinhood and Citadel, think they can get away with this, they have to go to prison. There has to be class action lawsuits against all of them. This would be the equivalent if your in the football game and you go for it on the 4th down and you don't get it, and then they give you two more downs. You can't just change the rules without telling anybody in the middle of the game. Everybody was playing under the same set of rules, you can risk what you have, what your own money is and if you make money great and if you lose it great. "This is not fair," the billionaires, the hedge funds are saying, "sorry we are going to stop letting you buy these stocks you can only sell them we are going to crash the market to get our money back." The irony, Robinhood, who said "free trade," and Robinhood "we take from the rich to give to the poor," no you don't, its reverse, you steal from the poor and give it back to the rich.
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FOX Business host Charles Payne raged against the "whining" by Wall Street following a massive short squeeze on hedge funds brought on by everyday investors that caused the GameStop stock to skyrocket. Payne said no one cared that shorters brought the GameStop stock price so low and Wall Street has...
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"Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy posted a video on Twitter about the recent investing restrictions placed on GameStop. \r\n\r\nPORTNOY: What is going on Wall Street? The way they have absolutely cheated, stolen, robbed everyday people who have been investing with Robinhood and other e-trade accounts and all this stuff. By saying \"hey, hedge funds are getting smoked, billionaires are getting smoked. So we are no longer going to let you trade on certain stocks GME, AMC, we are just shutting them off. You can't buy those stocks anymore, you can only sell them, we are going to craft those stocks so all our hedge fund billionaire friends can get out and not get killed.\" It is one of the most remarkable, illegal, shocking robberies in plain sight. No close door meetings, nothing behind, just right in your face putting a gun in your mouth and saying \"give us all your money.\" That is what Robinhood, the Citadel, Ken Griffin, Steve Cohen are doing. \r\nThey couldn't take that people on wallstreetbets, reddit, DDTG, fairly, open trade saying \"we are going to buy this stock. Fair and square, we know there's risk, it is going up we know we are risking our own money but we want to do it.\" To then say \"sorry you can't do this anymore, we are going to crash and tank the market because our billionaire hedge funds have shorted these and we don't want them to lose.\" Suddenly volatility we can't let you do it, we can't let you invest and put your money at risk. They have no problem when the hedge fund do it. When the hedge funds risk their firms and their lively hoods that's fine. When the everyday Jimmy and Joe want to do it, it's a problem they got to protect you. They are robbing you, they are stealing from you, this is criminal. \r\n\r\nThe Robinhood CEOs they belong in jail. Ken Griffin, I just posted an article he made 6.7 billion on the volatility of the pandemic. Now the volatility is a problem because they are losing, jail. This is criminal, and the scariest thing is it's in plain sight. They don't want you to win because they want to save their yachts, their mansions, and everything else they have. It's okay for them to risk money and make money but if you risk money and make money we can't allow that. The only people who are smart enough, who are allowed to risk more than they have are the hedge funds and the billionaires. And if they lose we are going to save them at your expense, we are going to put the gun in your mouth and we are going to take your money and give it back to the billionaires because only they can make money. \r\n\r\nI have never seen anything quit like this, it's shocking, and the fact that they clearly, Robinhood and Citadel, think they can get away with this, they have to go to prison. There has to be class action lawsuits against all of them. This would be the equivalent if your in the football game and you go for it on the 4th down and you don't get it, and then they give you two more downs. You can't just change the rules without telling anybody in the middle of the game. Everybody was playing under the same set of rules, you can risk what you have, what your own money is and if you make money great and if you lose it great. \"This is not fair,\" the billionaires, the hedge funds are saying, \"sorry we are going to stop letting you buy these stocks you can only sell them we are going to crash the market to get our money back.\" The irony, Robinhood, who said \"free trade,\" and Robinhood \"we take from the rich to give to the poor,\" no you don't, its reverse, you steal from the poor and give it back to the rich."
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As Joe Biden was sworn in as our 46th president, he delivered a simple yet eloquent speech about America's
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Biden Calls for an End To 'Uncivil War,' but Will He Defend Free Speech?
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As Joe Biden was sworn in as our 46th president, he delivered a simple yet eloquent speech about America's "uncivil war" and preached unity to a politically divided nation.
"We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts.
"If we show a little tolerance and humility, and if we are willing to stand in the other person's shoes -- as my mom would say -- just for a moment, stand in their shoes."
It wasn't literature. It wasn't supposed to be. It was a good check-all-the-boxes Biden speech.
Are you opposed to racism? Yes. Me too. So is the president. Do you support terrorists? No. I don't, and neither does our president.
It was earnest, well delivered, reasonable -- a study in urgent yet affable beige. But there was something missing.
He didn't want to agitate anyone, particularly his party's left wing, the new ally of Big Tech that is stamping out dissent. Biden wants to be seen as agreeable. He has always been a decent, amenable man, having spent 50 years in the Washington establishment sandbox.
Biden is our president. He's my president. And though I disagree with him, I prayed for him and for America. And I figure many of you did as well.
But I did hope for more substance from his speech, delivered with tens of thousands of federalized troops on guard against violence. Why? Because Big Tech has been censoring its platform users and stifling dissent, which protects Biden's politics. And because his party's thought leaders in the compliant Washington establishment press corps and elsewhere continue to shriek about fascism while continuing their push to "deplatform" or "deprogram" dissenting voices.
And mostly because tens of millions of Americans who did not vote for Joe Biden needed reassurance that they did not get.
They're worried about the cultural purge targeting them for doing what once was supremely American: standing up to speak their minds.
And so, what was missing in Joe Biden's speech? A full-throated commitment to defending the core values of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, which include the right of all Americans to speak their minds without fear of retribution. And I don't mean wing nuts calling for violence of any kind.
But maybe he could have tipped a hat to those civil libertarian Democrats many of us remember.
What happened to them?
They were liberals mostly, and many were part of what I call now the hard left. But there were some conservatives too.
They were our teachers, editors of our newspapers, professors at the university. They would not silence dissent. They'd read history and knew what came of that.
They knew Voltaire didn't speak that quote so often misattributed to him: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
But they revered the idea.
They understood free speech was at the heart of being an American. They warned about the excesses of the McCarthy era and the blacklists. They welcomed intellectual combat. And they knew that free speech protections in the First Amendment were critically important. They also knew that without a culture that supports a free exchange of ideas, our constitutional liberty would be lost. They revered liberty.
If you just agreed with their politics for a good grade in a college class, or prattled some facile sarcasm of others to curry their favor, the best of them would know instantly they were being made fools of, and they'd become furious.
It's all changed as the left's politics have permeated the institutions, including universities and American media where woke newsrooms seek to silence politically dissenting political views.
At least CNN Political Director David Chalian, who shapes political coverage at the network, isn't worried about keeping an objective posture for his liberal audience. He talked of Biden's visit Tuesday evening during a COVID-19 memorial at the National Mall, and it sounded as if the thrills ran up and down his leg.
"I mean, those lights that are just shooting out from the Lincoln Memorial along the reflecting pool, it's like almost extensions of Joe Biden's arms embracing America," Chalian gushed.
Like Joe Biden's arms embracing America. I get it.
The rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 gave new voice to the calls for a silencing of the right. Some conservatives understand the fraught nature of this, as do some on the left, like Glenn Greenwald, a lawyer, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who questioned whether acts of free speech will now be criminalized.
"What acts should be criminalized by new 'domestic terrorism' laws that are not already deemed criminal? They never say, almost certainly because -- just as was true of the first set of new war on terror laws -- their real aim is to criminalize that which should not be criminalized: speech, association, protests, opposition to the new ruling coalition."
The immediate tussle to direct the Biden administration will be between the Washington establishment and the hard left. Both sides know him to be malleable.
But in Biden's new coalition -- of the establishment, the bureaucracy, Big Tech, corporate America, the liberal Washington press corps and the hard left -- there is little if any constituency for civil libertarians.
And one thing they have in common is a shared hostility toward conservatives and the desire to scatter their voters to the four winds.
So how does this decent but fundamentally malleable man, historically susceptible to pressures from within his party, end the "uncivil war"?
We'll find out soon.
(C)2021 Chicago Tribune. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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But there was something missing.\nHe didn't want to agitate anyone, particularly his party's left wing, the new ally of Big Tech that is stamping out dissent. Biden wants to be seen as agreeable. He has always been a decent, amenable man, having spent 50 years in the Washington establishment sandbox.\nBiden is our president. He's my president. And though I disagree with him, I prayed for him and for America. And I figure many of you did as well.\nBut I did hope for more substance from his speech, delivered with tens of thousands of federalized troops on guard against violence. Why? Because Big Tech has been censoring its platform users and stifling dissent, which protects Biden's politics. And because his party's thought leaders in the compliant Washington establishment press corps and elsewhere continue to shriek about fascism while continuing their push to \"deplatform\" or \"deprogram\" dissenting voices.\nAnd mostly because tens of millions of Americans who did not vote for Joe Biden needed reassurance that they did not get.\nThey're worried about the cultural purge targeting them for doing what once was supremely American: standing up to speak their minds.\nAnd so, what was missing in Joe Biden's speech? A full-throated commitment to defending the core values of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, which include the right of all Americans to speak their minds without fear of retribution. And I don't mean wing nuts calling for violence of any kind.\nBut maybe he could have tipped a hat to those civil libertarian Democrats many of us remember.\nWhat happened to them?\nThey were liberals mostly, and many were part of what I call now the hard left. But there were some conservatives too.\nThey were our teachers, editors of our newspapers, professors at the university. They would not silence dissent. They'd read history and knew what came of that.\nThey knew Voltaire didn't speak that quote so often misattributed to him: \"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.\"\nBut they revered the idea.\nThey understood free speech was at the heart of being an American. They warned about the excesses of the McCarthy era and the blacklists. They welcomed intellectual combat. And they knew that free speech protections in the First Amendment were critically important. They also knew that without a culture that supports a free exchange of ideas, our constitutional liberty would be lost. They revered liberty.\nIf you just agreed with their politics for a good grade in a college class, or prattled some facile sarcasm of others to curry their favor, the best of them would know instantly they were being made fools of, and they'd become furious.\nIt's all changed as the left's politics have permeated the institutions, including universities and American media where woke newsrooms seek to silence politically dissenting political views.\nAt least CNN Political Director David Chalian, who shapes political coverage at the network, isn't worried about keeping an objective posture for his liberal audience. He talked of Biden's visit Tuesday evening during a COVID-19 memorial at the National Mall, and it sounded as if the thrills ran up and down his leg.\n\"I mean, those lights that are just shooting out from the Lincoln Memorial along the reflecting pool, it's like almost extensions of Joe Biden's arms embracing America,\" Chalian gushed.\nLike Joe Biden's arms embracing America. I get it.\nThe rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 gave new voice to the calls for a silencing of the right. Some conservatives understand the fraught nature of this, as do some on the left, like Glenn Greenwald, a lawyer, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who questioned whether acts of free speech will now be criminalized.\n\"What acts should be criminalized by new 'domestic terrorism' laws that are not already deemed criminal? They never say, almost certainly because -- just as was true of the first set of new war on terror laws -- their real aim is to criminalize that which should not be criminalized: speech, association, protests, opposition to the new ruling coalition.\"\nThe immediate tussle to direct the Biden administration will be between the Washington establishment and the hard left. Both sides know him to be malleable.\nBut in Biden's new coalition -- of the establishment, the bureaucracy, Big Tech, corporate America, the liberal Washington press corps and the hard left -- there is little if any constituency for civil libertarians.\nAnd one thing they have in common is a shared hostility toward conservatives and the desire to scatter their voters to the four winds.\nSo how does this decent but fundamentally malleable man, historically susceptible to pressures from within his party, end the \"uncivil war\"?\nWe'll find out soon.\n(C)2021 Chicago Tribune. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.",
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WASHINGTON (AP) Several thousand protesters cheered President Donald Trump and his baseless claims of election fraud at a rally near the White House on...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Several thousand protesters cheered President Donald Trump and his baseless claims of election fraud at a rally near the White House on Wednesday ahead of Congress’ vote to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
“We will not let them silence your voices,” Trump told the protesters, who had lined up before sunrise to get a prime position to hear the president.
The crowd cheered when he said, “We will stop the steal.” That’s been the rallying cry of protests against the election results.
Lou Murray, a life insurance salesman from Boston, said he and many others still hoped Congress and Vice President Mike Pence would not certify the Electoral College. “I hope Vice President Pence has courage today, and I hope any politician who thinks he has a future shows courage to stand up and do what’s right,” Murray said.
Pence has no path for avoiding the certification of Biden as the next president.
From the Ellipse south of the White House, the protesters planned to march to the Capitol before the vote. Trump said he would be with them.
At the Capitol, Tim Teller of West Sacramento, California, listened on his phone while Trump spoke. “I want to be able to tell my kids that I did everything I could,” he said.
The crowd gathered at the Capitol chanted, “We want Trump.”
About an hour before Trump was set to speak, there were long, dense lines at security checkpoints near the White House. At the Lincoln Memorial, dozens of Trump supporters stood on the steps with large Trump flags.
Nirav Peterson, who flew in from Seattle to attend the rally, said there would be a groundswell of anger and activism if Trump doesn’t serve another term and said Republicans who don’t back him should face primary challenges.
“People are angry. This isn’t going to go away,” Peterson said as she took video of the large crowd gathered beyond the steel barriers at the foot of the Washington Monument. “You have a huge, huge portion of the people who aren’t going to take it anymore.”
Like many others, Peterson was not wearing a mask. She said she opposes the shutdowns prompted by the pandemic and doesn’t believe anyone has died from COVID-19. More than 350,000 people have died from the virus in the U.S.
A number of prominent Trump supporters were expected to attend the protest events, which began Tuesday with a rally at Freedom Plaza near the White House. They include Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and longtime Trump ally Roger Stone, the recipient of a pardon by the president.
As temperatures dropped to the low 40s Tuesday night and a steady rain swept onto the streets, hundreds of protesters remained in Freedom Plaza.
“I’m just here to support the president,” said David Wideman, a 45-year-old firefighter who traveled from Memphis, Tennessee. Wideman acknowledged he was “confused” by a string of losses from Trump’s legal team in their attempt to overturn the results of the election and didn’t know what options Trump had left.
“I not sure what he can do at this point, but I want to hear what he has to say,” Wideman said.
Trump tweeted his support for the protesters: “Washington is being inundated with people who don’t want to see an election victory stolen by emboldened Radical Left Democrats. Our Country has had enough, they won’t take it anymore! We hear you (and love you) from the Oval Office.”
In a Tuesday evening tweet, Trump called on Democrats and fellow Republicans to look at the “thousands of people pouring into D.C.” In another tweet, he warned that antifa, the umbrella term for leftist militant groups that Trump has said he wants to declare a terrorist organization, should stay out of Washington.
The rallies had local officials and law enforcement bracing for potential violent street clashes. Many businesses in downtown Washington boarded up their windows, fearful that the protest could devolve into the unrest seen in May and June when dozens of businesses were vandalized.
District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser called in National Guard troops to help bolster the city’s police force. She urged residents to stay away from downtown Washington and to avoid confrontations with anyone who is “looking for a fight.” But, she warned, “we will not allow people to incite violence, intimidate our residents or cause destruction in our city.”
Police reported 12 protest-related arrests on Tuesday and Wednesday for a variety of offenses, including weapons charges, assault on a police officer, simple assault, possessing a stun gun and other violations.
Election officials from both political parties, governors in key battleground states and Trump’s former attorney general, William Barr, have said there was no widespread fraud in the election. Nearly all the legal challenges from Trump and his allies have been dismissed by judges, including two challenges rejected by the Supreme Court.
A pro-Trump rally Dec. 12 ended in violence as hundreds of Trump supporters, wearing the signature black and yellow of the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group, sought out confrontations with a collective of local activists attempting to bar them from Black Lives Matter Plaza, an area near the White House. At least two local Black churches had Black Lives Matter banners torn down and set ablaze.
On Monday, police arrested the leader of the Proud Boys, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, 36, after he arrived in Washington before this week’s protests. Tarrio was accused of burning one of the Black Lives Matter banners in December and was found with two high-capacity firearm magazines, police said. A judge signed an order Tuesday banning Tarrio from entering the District of Columbia, with very limited exceptions related to his criminal case.
In addition to the National Guard, federal agents were on standby, in case they were quickly needed in the city this week.
The federal Bureau of Prisons said about 100 “specially trained officers” were sent to the Justice Department headquarters to assist other security personnel but would remain “in a reserve capacity unless needed.”
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Trump said he would be with them.\nAt the Capitol, Tim Teller of West Sacramento, California, listened on his phone while Trump spoke. “I want to be able to tell my kids that I did everything I could,” he said.\nThe crowd gathered at the Capitol chanted, “We want Trump.”\nAbout an hour before Trump was set to speak, there were long, dense lines at security checkpoints near the White House. At the Lincoln Memorial, dozens of Trump supporters stood on the steps with large Trump flags.\nNirav Peterson, who flew in from Seattle to attend the rally, said there would be a groundswell of anger and activism if Trump doesn’t serve another term and said Republicans who don’t back him should face primary challenges.\n“People are angry. This isn’t going to go away,” Peterson said as she took video of the large crowd gathered beyond the steel barriers at the foot of the Washington Monument. “You have a huge, huge portion of the people who aren’t going to take it anymore.”\nLike many others, Peterson was not wearing a mask. She said she opposes the shutdowns prompted by the pandemic and doesn’t believe anyone has died from COVID-19. More than 350,000 people have died from the virus in the U.S.\nA number of prominent Trump supporters were expected to attend the protest events, which began Tuesday with a rally at Freedom Plaza near the White House. They include Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and longtime Trump ally Roger Stone, the recipient of a pardon by the president.\nAs temperatures dropped to the low 40s Tuesday night and a steady rain swept onto the streets, hundreds of protesters remained in Freedom Plaza.\n“I’m just here to support the president,” said David Wideman, a 45-year-old firefighter who traveled from Memphis, Tennessee. Wideman acknowledged he was “confused” by a string of losses from Trump’s legal team in their attempt to overturn the results of the election and didn’t know what options Trump had left.\n“I not sure what he can do at this point, but I want to hear what he has to say,” Wideman said.\nTrump tweeted his support for the protesters: “Washington is being inundated with people who don’t want to see an election victory stolen by emboldened Radical Left Democrats. Our Country has had enough, they won’t take it anymore! We hear you (and love you) from the Oval Office.”\nIn a Tuesday evening tweet, Trump called on Democrats and fellow Republicans to look at the “thousands of people pouring into D.C.” In another tweet, he warned that antifa, the umbrella term for leftist militant groups that Trump has said he wants to declare a terrorist organization, should stay out of Washington.\nThe rallies had local officials and law enforcement bracing for potential violent street clashes. Many businesses in downtown Washington boarded up their windows, fearful that the protest could devolve into the unrest seen in May and June when dozens of businesses were vandalized.\nDistrict of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser called in National Guard troops to help bolster the city’s police force. She urged residents to stay away from downtown Washington and to avoid confrontations with anyone who is “looking for a fight.” But, she warned, “we will not allow people to incite violence, intimidate our residents or cause destruction in our city.”\nPolice reported 12 protest-related arrests on Tuesday and Wednesday for a variety of offenses, including weapons charges, assault on a police officer, simple assault, possessing a stun gun and other violations.\nElection officials from both political parties, governors in key battleground states and Trump’s former attorney general, William Barr, have said there was no widespread fraud in the election. Nearly all the legal challenges from Trump and his allies have been dismissed by judges, including two challenges rejected by the Supreme Court.\nA pro-Trump rally Dec. 12 ended in violence as hundreds of Trump supporters, wearing the signature black and yellow of the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group, sought out confrontations with a collective of local activists attempting to bar them from Black Lives Matter Plaza, an area near the White House. At least two local Black churches had Black Lives Matter banners torn down and set ablaze.\nOn Monday, police arrested the leader of the Proud Boys, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, 36, after he arrived in Washington before this week’s protests. Tarrio was accused of burning one of the Black Lives Matter banners in December and was found with two high-capacity firearm magazines, police said. A judge signed an order Tuesday banning Tarrio from entering the District of Columbia, with very limited exceptions related to his criminal case.\nIn addition to the National Guard, federal agents were on standby, in case they were quickly needed in the city this week.\nThe federal Bureau of Prisons said about 100 “specially trained officers” were sent to the Justice Department headquarters to assist other security personnel but would remain “in a reserve capacity unless needed.”",
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Ignore McConnell and Nuke the Filibuster | RealClearPolitics
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There is nothing unifying about telling the majority who backed Biden that they'll get nothing for all their effort
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The Real Lesson of Trump's Social Media Silencing | RealClearPolitics
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After the shocking events of Jan. 6, it is understandable that many are celebrating Trump's online muzzling as essential consequences--something unfortunately easier to demonstrate within corporate America than the halls of Washington, writes Ethan Zuckerman. But if you are afraid that Trump's removal from Twitter and Facebook reflect the outsize power those platforms have over public life, you're not wrong: we are now discovering how vulnerable online speech can be.
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Trump's Impressive Economic Record Will Be Remembered | RealClearPolitics
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Trump's Impressive Economic Record Will Be Remembered
I can never defend Donald Trump's behavior since Election Day in November; it deserves condemnation.
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Impeach Trump: The Case for Removal Is Ironclad | RealClearPolitics
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The first time Donald John Trump (they prefer maximum formality in these things) was quite rightly impeached by the House of Representatives, it was for his perfect phone call with the Ukrainian president as he tried to strongarm an ally into smearing Joe Biden.
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Trump's Legacy in Israel | RealClearPolitics
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Donald Trump's alignment with Benjamin Netanyahu has been so total that, ahead of the U.S. Presidential election, sixty-three per cent of Israelis supported him over Joe Biden.
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Hawley Tries to Cancel Senate Dems for 'Canceling' Him | RealClearPolitics
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Hawley Tries to Cancel Senate Dems for 'Canceling' Him
Hawley claims an investigation into his actions regarding the insurrection is tantamount to “cancel culture” — so he launched an investigation of his own.
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| 2021-01-26T00:00:00 |
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"Hawley Tries to Cancel Senate Dems for 'Canceling' Him",
"Hawley Tries to Cancel Senate Dems for 'Canceling' Him | RealClearPolitics"
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The U.S. Is Back in the International Climate Change Game | RealClearPolitics
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The U.S. Is Back in the International Climate Change Game
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The U.S. Is Back in the International Climate Change Game
Biden signed an executive order to rejoin the Paris agreement. What happens next?
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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2021/01/21/the_us_is_back_in_the_international_climate_change_game_534000.html
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| 2021-01-21T00:00:00 |
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"The U.S. Is Back in the International Climate Change Game | RealClearPolitics"
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[] | 2021-01-19T00:49:01 | null | 2021-01-18T00:00:00 |
The Coming Republican Amnesia | RealClearPolitics
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The Coming Republican Amnesia
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Biden Is President, But Trump Changed U.S. for a Generation | RealClearPolitics
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Biden Is President, But Trump Changed U.S. for a Generation
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Biden Is President, But Trump Changed U.S. for a Generation
Biden's warm inauguration words will not reset the dials. The era of US global leadership can't be rebuilt quickly, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2021/01/21/biden_is_president_but_trump_changed_us_for_a_generation_534013.html
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| 2021-01-21T00:00:00 |
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Trump Has Delivered Republicans a Trifecta of Defeat | RealClearPolitics
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Trump Has Delivered Republicans a Trifecta of Defeat
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In the minds of many Georgia swing voters, the Trump-dominated Republican party is a threat to the nation
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Biden Could Calm the Right by Curbing Excesses of the Left | RealClearPolitics
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Justice is supposed to be blind, but Americans shouldn't be. Whether carried out by black-clad anarchists or assemblies of flag-wavers, political violence should be dealt in evenhanded rather than selective fashion. If he hopes to restore order in a divided nation, President-elect Joe Biden will need to help unruly factions see clearly that the only proper manner of seeking redress of grievances is peacefully. Given the recent tumult, it won't be easy.
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"Biden Could Calm the Right by Curbing Excesses of the Left",
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Doubts Grow in Freedom's Last Redoubt | RealClearPolitics
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Doubts Grow in Freedom's Last Redoubt
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Free speech as both a principle and an operational element of Western democracy is more threatened today than in living memory. News media, cardinal beneficiaries of the First Amendment, are among the most vociferous voices demanding that dissenters be gagged.
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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2021/01/30/doubts_grow_in_freedoms_last_redoubt_534724.html
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| 2021-01-30T00:00:00 |
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Republicans in Georgia Must Vote Against Pelosi and Schumer | RealClearPolitics
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Republicans in Georgia Must Vote Against Pelosi and Schumer
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Republicans in Georgia Must Vote Against Pelosi and Schumer
Georgia, you have the terrible responsibility, in these last remaining hours, to decide the future of our country.
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[] | 2021-01-07T20:36:29 | null | 2021-01-07T00:00:00 |
There is one man responsible for what happened in Washington on Wednesday, as America watched the heart of the republic under the assault of an angry...
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Trump Owns This
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There is one man responsible for what happened in Washington on Wednesday, as America watched the heart of the republic under the assault of an angry mob:
Donald Trump.
It was nauseating. He owns this.
He egged on his supporters. He whipped them into a frenzy. He called them there to rally, to use their love of country as leverage to force his will upon the republic and against its laws.
Soon they breached the Capitol and climbed the walls. It was indeed shameful.
All that was missing were dying horses struggling in the street, and cannon balls and groups of men drunk on cheap rum.
But this isn't the late 1700s. It's 2021.
This was no different from the looters in Democratic cities all summer long who destroyed peaceful protest for the sake of satisfying their appetite for violence. There is nothing remotely conservative about mob rule.
Yet there was Trump, like some pied piper leading his followers into dangerous fantasy, a story in which he was the hero denied his just due by scoundrels who stole the election from him.
He had no evidence of widespread voter fraud. Even conservative judges he appointed noted he had no evidence to back his claim of widespread fraud. He'd all but called his own vice president, Mike Pence, a coward for not supporting his claims.
Pence did the right thing by his country, refusing to play along with Trump and announcing his intention to not oppose the certification of the Electoral College vote.
But Republican senators such as Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh Hawley of Missouri wanted to use their objections as political platforms for possible future presidential runs, getting in front of the herd, promising to question the certification, to put their mark on things.
Outside, Trump whipped up the crowd. They'd been ridiculed by corporate media, by Big Tech that sought to silence them, by the establishment crowd, Republican and Democrat, who feared them yet sought to herd them.
There is nothing like a mob full of anger, the resentment in them building year after year, finally lathered up and ready to jump.
That was Washington on Wednesday.
"We've got to get rid of the weak Congress people, the ones that aren't any good," Trump said. "Today we will see whether Republicans stand strong for integrity of our elections, but whether or not they stand strong for our country."
He added that "our country has been under siege for a long time."
If that's not inciting a riot, what is?
And so the chaos in Washington belongs to Trump: The woman shot in the chest, who died. The Capitol stormed by an angry crowd. Guns drawn by police. Pro-Trump protesters running through offices.
And the emergency evacuation of senators who, in keeping with our nation's sacred traditions, were certifying electoral votes to make Joe Biden the next president of the United States.
Trump, who styles himself as a stand-up guy, was silent as his supporters stormed the Capitol. Later, shamed, he put out a video on Twitter, saying he understood their anger, yet repeated that the election had been stolen from him and from them.
"But you have to go home now ... we can't play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace. I know how you feel. But go home and go home in peace."
Go in peace? Too late for that Mr. President. Those who stormed the Capitol should be prosecuted and sent to prison. They can thank you for it.
Predictably, and swiftly, President-elect Biden grabbed a microphone to press his political advantage.
"All of you have been watching," Biden said. "At this hour, our democracy is under assault. Assault in the citadel of liberty. The Capitol itself. ... The words of a president matter. At their best, the words of a president can inspire. At their worst, they can incite."
Exactly.
As the National Guard headed into Washington, it became clear that the Democrats had won both U.S. Senate seats in Georgia, which had once been a reliably red Republican state.
Now the Democrats hold the White House, the House of Representatives, and there will be a 50-50 split in the Senate.
It was Sen. Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat and Senate minority leader, who shouted out after the November elections victory:
"Now we take Georgia, then we change the world!"
Be careful what you wish for Mr. Schumer. Because now you and the Democrats own the next round.
If those Georgia votes hold through any recount challenges, and Democrats keep that 50-50 Senate split, who can change the world by holding it in her hands?
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, who will be there to break the tie.
And she'll use it to launch her own campaign for president, to exert leverage of her own upon the republic.
As I watched the mob breaking the law, climbing the walls, I thought about the roots of their anger. They're the forgotten. They feel as if their voice has been taken from them. They're hated by those who control the culture -- the media, the academics, Big Tech, Big Business -- and their resentment will only grow.
But Biden is correct. The words of a president do matter.
Trump's words failed his nation and his own passionate supporters, as the mob stormed our Capitol.
It's all on him.
(C)2021 Chicago Tribune. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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There is nothing remotely conservative about mob rule.\nYet there was Trump, like some pied piper leading his followers into dangerous fantasy, a story in which he was the hero denied his just due by scoundrels who stole the election from him.\nHe had no evidence of widespread voter fraud. Even conservative judges he appointed noted he had no evidence to back his claim of widespread fraud. He'd all but called his own vice president, Mike Pence, a coward for not supporting his claims.\nPence did the right thing by his country, refusing to play along with Trump and announcing his intention to not oppose the certification of the Electoral College vote.\nBut Republican senators such as Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh Hawley of Missouri wanted to use their objections as political platforms for possible future presidential runs, getting in front of the herd, promising to question the certification, to put their mark on things.\nOutside, Trump whipped up the crowd. They'd been ridiculed by corporate media, by Big Tech that sought to silence them, by the establishment crowd, Republican and Democrat, who feared them yet sought to herd them.\nThere is nothing like a mob full of anger, the resentment in them building year after year, finally lathered up and ready to jump.\nThat was Washington on Wednesday.\n\"We've got to get rid of the weak Congress people, the ones that aren't any good,\" Trump said. \"Today we will see whether Republicans stand strong for integrity of our elections, but whether or not they stand strong for our country.\"\nHe added that \"our country has been under siege for a long time.\"\nIf that's not inciting a riot, what is?\nAnd so the chaos in Washington belongs to Trump: The woman shot in the chest, who died. The Capitol stormed by an angry crowd. Guns drawn by police. Pro-Trump protesters running through offices.\nAnd the emergency evacuation of senators who, in keeping with our nation's sacred traditions, were certifying electoral votes to make Joe Biden the next president of the United States.\nTrump, who styles himself as a stand-up guy, was silent as his supporters stormed the Capitol. Later, shamed, he put out a video on Twitter, saying he understood their anger, yet repeated that the election had been stolen from him and from them.\n\"But you have to go home now ... we can't play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace. I know how you feel. But go home and go home in peace.\"\nGo in peace? Too late for that Mr. President. Those who stormed the Capitol should be prosecuted and sent to prison. They can thank you for it.\nPredictably, and swiftly, President-elect Biden grabbed a microphone to press his political advantage.\n\"All of you have been watching,\" Biden said. \"At this hour, our democracy is under assault. Assault in the citadel of liberty. The Capitol itself. ... The words of a president matter. At their best, the words of a president can inspire. At their worst, they can incite.\"\nExactly.\nAs the National Guard headed into Washington, it became clear that the Democrats had won both U.S. Senate seats in Georgia, which had once been a reliably red Republican state.\nNow the Democrats hold the White House, the House of Representatives, and there will be a 50-50 split in the Senate.\nIt was Sen. Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat and Senate minority leader, who shouted out after the November elections victory:\n\"Now we take Georgia, then we change the world!\"\nBe careful what you wish for Mr. Schumer. Because now you and the Democrats own the next round.\nIf those Georgia votes hold through any recount challenges, and Democrats keep that 50-50 Senate split, who can change the world by holding it in her hands?\nVice President-elect Kamala Harris, who will be there to break the tie.\nAnd she'll use it to launch her own campaign for president, to exert leverage of her own upon the republic.\nAs I watched the mob breaking the law, climbing the walls, I thought about the roots of their anger. They're the forgotten. They feel as if their voice has been taken from them. They're hated by those who control the culture -- the media, the academics, Big Tech, Big Business -- and their resentment will only grow.\nBut Biden is correct. The words of a president do matter.\nTrump's words failed his nation and his own passionate supporters, as the mob stormed our Capitol.\nIt's all on him.\n(C)2021 Chicago Tribune. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.",
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Returning to Iran Nuclear Deal Would Be a Mistake | RealClearPolitics
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Returning to Iran Nuclear Deal Would Be a Mistake
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Returning to Iran Nuclear Deal Would Be a Mistake
For the United States to simply return to the nuclear agreement would be a major strategic blunder.
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| 2021-01-28T00:00:00 |
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Ridiculing Fraud Concerns Won't Make Them Go Away | RealClearPolitics
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Ridiculing Fraud Concerns Won't Make Them Go Away
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If nothing else, conservatives must all be on board with addressing the disastrous crisis of trust this election has produced.
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| 2021-01-05T00:00:00 |
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Media Finally Comes Around to Idea That Riots Are Scary | RealClearPolitics
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CNN's Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, and others were aghast Wednesday as the nation watched thousands of President Trump's supporters storm the Capitol, breaching the premises, and rioting within the building. Aside from all the violence, though, they were otherwise peaceful!
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I'm Taking a Knee for America | RealClearPolitics
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I'm Taking a Knee for America
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We need to take a knee for America, and then come together to build the foundations of a new America that lives out its ideals, not just spouts them for political gain.
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| 2021-01-19T00:00:00 |
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Hello, its Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. President Trump got himself impeached again, and in record time: one week between the commission of offense, indictment,...
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Liz Cheney; Political Reforms; Dawning of a Plague
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Hello, it’s Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. President Trump got himself impeached again, and in record time: one week between the commission of offense, indictment, and a vote in the House of Representatives. Wednesday was notable in another way, too: For the second time this month, U.S. deaths from COVID-19 surpassed 4,000 in a single day. Despite the presence of a vaccine, January is set to be the deadliest month yet. Nearly 40,000 Americans have died 14 days into 2021. The worldwide total during the past year has now surpassed 2 million souls.
Viruses are a formidable adversary for humans, even if we’re doing everything right. That was not the case with this contagion. The institutions tasked with protecting us failed to do so, lapses exacerbated by dishonest, dysfunctional politics.
One year ago today, the World Health Organization tweeted, “Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus.”
This was untrue. It was a lie in service of a coverup. China’s government was so intent on hiding the burgeoning health crisis that authorities had arrested and threatened a Wuhan Central Hospital physician who tried to warn the outside world about the lethal contagion.
Coincidentally, also a year ago today, I focused my morning newsletter on a Jan. 14 milestone in the fight against the 1918-1920 Spanish flu pandemic, which was far more lethal than the new coronavirus we’re dealing with -- or anything else. “Influenza killed more people in a year than the Black Death of the Middle Ages killed in a century,” John M. Barry, author of the most definitive book on the pandemic, wrote in 2004. “It killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has killed in 24 years.”
In the ensuing century, I noted on Jan. 14, 2020 (not knowing anything of COVID-19), science learned a great deal about the spread of such pathogens. We learned much, in fact, between 1918, when it was hard to get people to postpone parades, and this date in 1920, when a single official at the Chicago State Hospital -- a person who had had no contact with patients -- contracted the flu, resulting in the entire facility being quarantined.
I added this:
But the astonishing death toll of the pandemic was not primarily because poor medical practices were followed. It was because the strain of that virus, which was brought back from extinction in 2005 for study, was at least 100 times more lethal than typical flu viruses.
This should give us pause. Influenza pandemics have spread through the world three times since then (in 1957, 1968, and 2009) with nothing like the 1918 death rate. But if it happened before, it can happen again.
At the time, I didn’t know what the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta was beginning to learn -- despite Chinese stonewalling -- about the lethal respiratory illness coming out of Wuhan. I certainly had no inkling of the hellish year that was unfolding. I was aware impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump were going forward. After having held onto the articles of impeachment without explanation for nearly a month, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the Democrats’ impeachment managers a year ago today.
Now it’s déjà vu all over again -- the difference being that this time we have a coronavirus vaccine and a new president-elect. With that, I’d point you to RCP’s front page, which presents our poll averages, videos, breaking news stories, and aggregated opinion pieces spanning the political spectrum. Today’s lineup includes Juliette Kayyem (The Atlantic), Miranda Devine (New York Post), and Alan Dershowitz (Newsweek). We also offer original material from our own reporters, columnists, and contributors, including the following:
* * *
Vote to Impeach Imperils Liz Cheney’s GOP Leadership Role. Phil Wegmann reports on the intra-party fight, which stands as a proxy war for the broader question of whether Trump populism ought to remain Republican orthodoxy.
Capitol Violence Underscores Need for Political Reforms. Nick Troiano argues that nonpartisan reforms can break the doom loop of political polarization that fuels our nation’s growing unrest.
In Praise of Melania Trump’s Humble Leadership. Chad Banghart extols the first lady’s accomplishments -- and the manner in which she served.
Biden’s Approach to North Korea. At RealClearDefense, Matt Abbott urges the incoming president to build upon the absence of long-range ballistic missile testing since the Trump-Kim Jong un summit.
Waste, Not Deficits, Are What We Must Worry About. Gary Marshall explains at RealClearMarkets.
Democrats’ Misguided War on Plastic. At RealClearPolicy, Will Coggin writes that opponents of single-use plastic products fail to point out that the U.S. is responsible for just 1% of global plastic that enters the ocean.
The Gradual Conquest of Cancer. RealClearScience editor Ross Pomeroy lays out some of the many small advances that are bringing malignant tumors to heel.
* * *
Carl M. Cannon
Washington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics
@CarlCannon (Twitter)
[email protected]
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The institutions tasked with protecting us failed to do so, lapses exacerbated by dishonest, dysfunctional politics.\nOne year ago today, the World Health Organization tweeted, “Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus.”\nThis was untrue. It was a lie in service of a coverup. China’s government was so intent on hiding the burgeoning health crisis that authorities had arrested and threatened a Wuhan Central Hospital physician who tried to warn the outside world about the lethal contagion.\nCoincidentally, also a year ago today, I focused my morning newsletter on a Jan. 14 milestone in the fight against the 1918-1920 Spanish flu pandemic, which was far more lethal than the new coronavirus we’re dealing with -- or anything else. “Influenza killed more people in a year than the Black Death of the Middle Ages killed in a century,” John M. Barry, author of the most definitive book on the pandemic, wrote in 2004. “It killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has killed in 24 years.”\nIn the ensuing century, I noted on Jan. 14, 2020 (not knowing anything of COVID-19), science learned a great deal about the spread of such pathogens. We learned much, in fact, between 1918, when it was hard to get people to postpone parades, and this date in 1920, when a single official at the Chicago State Hospital -- a person who had had no contact with patients -- contracted the flu, resulting in the entire facility being quarantined.\nI added this:\nBut the astonishing death toll of the pandemic was not primarily because poor medical practices were followed. It was because the strain of that virus, which was brought back from extinction in 2005 for study, was at least 100 times more lethal than typical flu viruses.\nThis should give us pause. 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With that, I’d point you to RCP’s front page, which presents our poll averages, videos, breaking news stories, and aggregated opinion pieces spanning the political spectrum. Today’s lineup includes Juliette Kayyem (The Atlantic), Miranda Devine (New York Post), and Alan Dershowitz (Newsweek). We also offer original material from our own reporters, columnists, and contributors, including the following:\n* * *\nVote to Impeach Imperils Liz Cheney’s GOP Leadership Role. Phil Wegmann reports on the intra-party fight, which stands as a proxy war for the broader question of whether Trump populism ought to remain Republican orthodoxy.\nCapitol Violence Underscores Need for Political Reforms. Nick Troiano argues that nonpartisan reforms can break the doom loop of political polarization that fuels our nation’s growing unrest.\nIn Praise of Melania Trump’s Humble Leadership. 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Biden Ushers In Historic Turn on Climate Change | RealClearPolitics
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Fighting Covid-19 Is Biden's First and Most Urgent Job | RealClearPolitics
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(Bloomberg Opinion) -- President-elect Joe Biden's first and most urgent task will be to repair the government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Given how badly the current president has bungled the job, it won't be hard to do better. Even so, the scale of the task is daunting.From the start, President Donald Trump failed to organize the response or create a national plan to allocate medical supplies, coordinate test-and-trace efforts and prepare states to distribute vaccines. He refused to heed scientific reality or let professionals lead the public health response. He fomented bitter disagreement among his own advisers. Trump hasn't even bothered to wear a mask or otherwise lead Americans to take basic precautions.In most ways, Biden simply needs to do the opposite. He can change the national conversation on Covid by restoring professional public health leadership, improving communication with the states and expediting the vaccine rollout — internationally as well as within the U.S. It's good that he's already outlined a solid pandemic response plan and gathered a team of experts who can be trusted to focus on ending the pandemic.Above all, Biden should keep his pledge to heed advice from scientists and public health authorities — especially those at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC can do much to rationalize the pandemic response, as long as the president and his political advisers keep out of its way. The new administration should return to the tradition of CDC-led public briefings, to keep Americans up to date on the course of the pandemic and the progress of vaccination, and to deliver a consistent message about the need for masks, social distancing and hand-washing. The CDC should be granted its former authority to gather all detailed data on Covid infections, hospitalizations, deaths and so on from the states and feed this into a public national dashboard, as Biden has promised. And the agency should give states clear direction about when and how it's safe for restaurants, stores, gyms, schools and businesses to be open.Biden is rightly preparing to address the pandemic's disproportionate effect on Black, Latino and Native American communities — where the Covid mortality rate has been as much as triple that among White Americans — by creating a special task force, led by Marcella Nunez-Smith, an eminent expert on disparities in health-care access. Her challenge will be to ensure that vulnerable communities are adequately tested and treated for Covid-19, that people get the support they need to isolate and quarantine when necessary, and that they get vaccinated without delay. She must be given the authority her difficult job will require.Vaccinations aren't going well. Operation Warp Speed has delivered vaccines to states but isn't guiding distribution appropriately. And states, cities, hospitals, nursing homes and other agencies in charge of shot-giving need to do better. Biden has pledged to push the pace to at least 1 million shots per day, by setting up more sites, deploying mobile units, and sending the message that vaccines are safe and essential.Biden also wants to get schools open by the spring. He'll need to persuade Congress to pay for adapting school buildings and buses to social distancing. (If new variants of the coronavirus spread readily among children, vaccinating teachers and school staff will be even more urgent.) He wants to provide the resources to get more Americans tested, more quickly, by setting up a national pandemic testing board along the lines of Franklin Roosevelt's War Production Board. He says he'll boost production of personal protective equipment, and work with governors and mayors to push, prod and inspire people to wear masks. All these efforts should have begun months ago.As if all this weren't enough, Biden should also join the international effort to ensure that all countries get Covid-19 vaccines and treatments — by reversing Trump's withdrawal from the World Health Organization; joining Covax, the global vaccine purchasing pool; and donating and helping to procure vaccine supplies for poorer countries. As things stand, much of the world's population may have to wait until 2022 for a shot. It could take years to immunize 60% of the people in Africa. Yet no country can be safe from Covid-19 until all countries are safe.Finally, Biden must do everything possible to make sure that the next pandemic is not as deadly or as costly. That begins by restoring the National Security Council's Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense, whose job was to monitor disease outbreaks around the world — until the Trump administration dissolved it in 2018. The U.S. must also support the WHO, the agency best positioned to help all countries recognize and head off emerging health threats.By the time Biden is sworn in, nearly 400,000 Americans will likely have died of Covid-19, and the disease will still be raging. The new president need be in no doubt about his first and most urgent task.Editorials are written by the Bloomberg Opinion editorial board. For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinionSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.
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He says he'll boost production of personal protective equipment, and work with governors and mayors to push, prod and inspire people to wear masks. All these efforts should have begun months ago.As if all this weren't enough, Biden should also join the international effort to ensure that all countries get Covid-19 vaccines and treatments — by reversing Trump's withdrawal from the World Health Organization; joining Covax, the global vaccine purchasing pool; and donating and helping to procure vaccine supplies for poorer countries. As things stand, much of the world's population may have to wait until 2022 for a shot. It could take years to immunize 60% of the people in Africa. Yet no country can be safe from Covid-19 until all countries are safe.Finally, Biden must do everything possible to make sure that the next pandemic is not as deadly or as costly. 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It's Time to Tune Out Trump's Current Supporters for Good | RealClearPolitics
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After spending the last five years talking to avid Trump supporters, CNN's Alisyn Camerota writes it is time to tune out the President's die-hard supporters for good. Listening to Trump's supporters, she argues, is now problematic and dangerous.
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Can Minneapolis Make a Comeback? | RealClearPolitics
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The twin forces of the fallout of the summer's riots and coronavirus threaten to crush the city of Minneapolis.
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So, President Donald Trump has been booted off Twitter, as of now forever. Facebook also gave him the heave-ho. Apple and Google, meanwhile, have tossed the...
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So, President Donald Trump has been booted off Twitter, as of now forever. Facebook also gave him the heave-ho. Apple and Google, meanwhile, have tossed the riot-friendly Parler app out of their stores.
Parler became a social media cave for the Trump-inspired looters, vandals, cop killers and other social misfits who rampaged through the Capitol. But Amazon may have delivered the harshest blow by refusing to store Parler's data in its cloud-computing service.
Having lost the presidency, the Senate majority and now major platforms for disseminating lies and calls to violence, Trump World, or what's left of it, automatically shifted into self-pitying snowflake mode. With quivering voices, its members accused the tech companies of censorship.
When Simon & Schuster announced it would not be publishing the book by one of the instigators, Josh Hawley, the Missouri senator called the move "Orwellian" and a "direct assault on the First Amendment." A graduate of Yale Law School should know that the First Amendment bans only government censorship.
These are all private companies, and private companies have every right to decide what they do or do not offer customers. I demand that Fox News give me an hour of airtime every week. I'm not getting it? Well, those are the breaks.
There will be a time for thoughtful debate on these companies' power to monitor the flow of information. That time is not this week. Having just endured a violent attempt to destroy the electoral process at Trump's urging, American democracy is now in Code Red. We're in a national emergency demanding an emergency response.
That's why other companies are joining the media giants in isolating Trump and his fellow insurrectionists. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and Marriott International said they would freeze donations to Republican lawmakers who challenged state-certified Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden. Stripe, a tech company that processes card payments for online businesses, has cut off Trump's campaign account. And the e-commerce company Shopify has pulled the plug on stores run by Trump and his campaign.
In addition to a shared revulsion to the Trump-fanned attack on the Capitol, the companies have business reasons to stop the insanity. The American system of checks and balances and peaceful transfer of power has been good to business. Corporate leaders, including many who signed on with the president for the tax cuts, know that chaos unleashed by toxic Trumpian forces is bad for the economy and, therefore, bad for them.
One of the more muscular calls to isolate Trump and his enablers comes from Forbes Magazine, which bills itself as the world's biggest business media brand. The Trump insurrection, editor Randall Lane wrote, was rooted in "lies-upon-lies, repeated frequently and fervently." From day one of this Orwellian presidency, he added, "up has been down, yes has been no, failure has been success."
Lane went on to warn corporate America against hiring a former Trump White House spokesperson. Any of them -- from Sean Spicer up through Kayleigh McEnany -- will be considered a "potential funnel of disinformation," he said.
To repeat: No one has withdrawn Trump's right to free speech. He can hold a news conference. He can issue press releases. He can open the window and holler.
And Hawley's book could still see the light of day. The publisher may be less prestigious than Simon & Schuster. And he might be able to keep the advance. Conservative publisher Regnery said it would consider the book.
It bears noting that Apple did give Parler an opportunity to remove content that would threaten people's safety. Its warnings went unheeded. Parler is dead, for now, anyway. All we can say is those are the breaks.
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The Future Is Florida
The Sunshine State is outgoverning other large states, and it's paying off.
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