Twitter, facebook, Google ….. they jumped the shark. They steamrolled all over our most basic rights.
For years my colleagues and I have choked under the boot of uniformly left wing corporate media managers who have suspnmded, shadowboxed, shadow banned, blacklisted, scrubbed and censored our channels on social media. Having been one of the early targets of social media censorship on Facebook, YouTube et al, I have advocated for anti-trust action against these bullying behemoths
The Urgent Case for Legislation against Facebook, Twitter and Google
The US government has used anti-trust laws to break up monopolies. They ought to break up Facebook. Section 2 of the Sherman Act highlights particular results deemed anticompetitive by nature and prohibits actions that ‘shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations.’ Couldn’t the same be applied to information? The United States government took down Standard Oil, Alcoa, Northern Securities, the American Tobacco Company and many others without nearly the power that Facebook has.”
Pamela Geller: Why I Am Suing Facebook – Breitbart
Trump will sign an executive order on social media companies: White House spokeswoman
Reuters, May 27, 2020
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order shortly regarding social media companies, a White House spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
Spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany made the remark to reporters aboard Air Force One, traveling with Trump to Washington from Florida a day after Twitter Inc attached a warning to some of his tweets prompting readers to fact-check the president’s claims.
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suck on it obongo
What? He’s in retirement and he has nothing to do with these companies.
Yes but why did Obama not regulate Big Tech? And now Obama has no power to stop Trump from doing it.
Great, but that comment seemed as demented as Uncle Joe. I mean… Obama’s been gone 3 years now, who the hell yells “suck it Obama” in 2020?
The commenter probably has trouble remembering what year it is.
Halal Bacon is a Geller Report fixture, and very smart, and as I hope you will see in your time here, he teaches us a lot. I think he abbreviated his message because he knew most readers would understand his meaning.
“Halal Bacon is a Geller Report fixture, and very smart”
yeah right, I got fixtures in my bathroom that have more intelligence than someone who yells “SUCK IT OBONGO” 3 years after the guy disappeared from all public view… I dunno what kind of sane person would waste time defending a clown like that.
Gawd some of the simpletons around here really have trouble realising, Im not going to respect you just cause you’re old or have “been here a while”…
By “around here” I of course refer to Planet Earth.
“I think he abbreviated his message because he knew most readers would understand his meaning.”
Abbreviated? Yes he definitely did. “Suck it obongo” was the abbreviated version of “please refer me to a dementia specialist because I can’t figure out what year it is”.
Sewer, relax, we are all tense right now with the epidemic and all. Lock-downs cause ‘cabin fever’.
I’ll relax when the senile and the pathetic remove themselves from the internet (and existence)
[Now I kind of understand why Achmed sent you all that stuff]
“Now I kind of understand”
Any sentence where you claim to understand is a lie.
Poor little sewer maintenance is so poorly educated that it cannot understand anything.
Such a poor, poor little thing. I truly pity it.
ACH: Yes, but don’t down-vote Sewer. He might go away…
Why not? The poorly educated little sewer maintenance runs away, bawling to its mother. However, just like all blithering idiots, it comes back.
Yes, he remains. Why? He must get something out of it. Some people like that are just hyper- defensive. They are not insulting others for pleasure, but to ward off imagined pain or threats.
I knew someone who was gas-lighted constantly at home, by family who pretended to be nice, but they were constantly undermining and diminishing him. SO even exchanging pleasantries with the guy triggered a furious response, like I was trying to damage him somehow. Not an ideal friend on a desert island…
Anyway, the Web is full of people like Sewer, who don’t really seem to get any benefit out of web discussions, but they keep doing it.
Maybe he likes rejection and feeling like a victim?
Or maybe he is seeking punishment for his lifestyle choice?
No. Its mother made it a masochist. It simply adores being beaten.
I think more highly of a real sewer rat that this human sewer rat.
obongo loved executive orders, pot meet kettle
Well, one thing is for certain. A real sewer rat is decisively more intelligent than the one that HUMILIATES itself, on this site.
I think more highly of a real sewer rat that this human sewer rat.
Well don’t take any of my insults personally…
Certainly not from HIM!
Cause you’re just as resentful of my telling you how stupid you are as “he” is? Yes of course.
Oh our poorly educated little sewer maintenance rears its ugly head, once again.
Once again, the poorly educated sewer maintenance HUMILIATES itself.
The poor, poor little thing. I truly pity it.
Does your mother know you are here?
The next time that it goes running away, bawling to its mother, she’ll know.
He may may not be sure who his mother is. He’s probably just another member of a rat pack.
It knows what its mother is and where it dwells. It goes hiding away, bawling like a calf, running to it. And, on a rather frequent basis.
I simply continued to reply to that poorly educated little thing. Each time brought more laughter. And, as they say ….
Laughter is the best medicine.
Yahooo….ride that bronco, into the ground, handjob!
You do love torturing helpless little pussies! (Who are soo very deserving, usually).
No mercy! You’re going to make him have a stroke or a breakdown, judging from his posts.
I doubt if it ever suffers a breakdown. After it has HUMILIATED itself to the point that even a masochist, such as little sewer maintenance, cannot take …
It runs away bawling to its mother.
Oh Sewer likes it. He comes back….
So your anti Biden?
Nef: [Maybe he IS Biden]
;-))) …
This is nothing to with lockdown, I’ve hated incoherent senile morons all my life. And I don’t need to “calm down”, morons need to WIND down… their operations…
Ok asshole then just go away
Bob: Yes isn’t that interesting? Sewer remains, and remains, and remains… for no apparent reason or personal benefit.
Have you ever read your own posts? What about psychotic, incoherent idiots who can obtain their sole life thrills from IT trolling and personal abuse? We have always had our fair share of these as leftists cannot bear to see differing POVs.
Hi, Michelle. Don’t be too hard on little sewer maintenance. If you were as poorly educated as it is ….
Scratch that. Nothing is quite as poorly educated as sewer. One thing that is for certain, it is a masochist. It loves to HUMILIATE itself.
Hey “bacon” guy… apparently someone around here thinks you are an “institution”. Wow. it’s quite incredible how easily impressed some people are isn’t it? Truly cúntstonishing.
Sewer: Well if something is bothering you, just say so. Don’t hold it in!
Poor little sewer maintenance. Such a poorly educated little thing. However, look. Once again, it HUMILIATES itself.
Best to catch its “comments” while you can. It’s only a matter of time before it, ONCE AGAIN, runs away bawling to its mother.
The poor, poor little thing. I truly pity it.
Just a flabby, morbidly obese little sewer rat.
Oh a roly poly sewer rat.
With rolls and rolls of flab.
Hey! The bottom rat is Larry! I always wondered where Larry went. I switched his feed from Purina Rat Chow to Purina Cat Chow to save money, and he got insulted, and left by the back door at 2.A.M. one night. Well, it’s good to see he’s in good health, anyway.
Makes me happy.
Zuck needs a spanking
“President Trump will sign an executive order on social media companies”
Well there you go, I predicted that he would do it with and Executive Order. This is a regulation issue, not an issue of laws. So the Executive Branch can handle it through the FCC and other bodies. The House will try to block it, and the Senate will block the House.
Fait accompli, c’est ca, c’est tout, c’est Fini! [It’s a done deal, that’s it, that’s all!]
I don’t believe he had a choice. An EO is the last resort. The swamp won’t legislate anything against the bias. Now we can watch the swamp fight this too. I am curious about the details of the EO.
Oh the Dems will fight all right. However, this fight will distract from other fights in useful ways. Like the Dem efforts to wreck the election voting, and their efforts to blame Trump for somehow ‘causing’ the epidemic. Meanwhile the citizenry don’t care about Twitter regulations, and most of those who do, will support Trump. Big Tech is obviously a propaganda group.
This is all thanks to the GellerReport commenter “Achmed Mohandjob”.
If he hadn’t sent me the same message 3 times a day for the last 2 weeks (consisting of him making the world’s lamest insult about my mother or something), none of this would have happened! He’s the saviour of the world, everybody! He’s a true genius amongst us!!
Achmed Mohandjob is a lot of fun. And smart. Why he sent you stuff I don’t know, but your mother can probably handle it. Maybe he wants to interest you in the Bakken Oil play. Lots of bargains there right now!
“Achmed Mohandjob is a lot of fun. And smart. ” no, bouncy castles are a lot of fun and ironed shirts are smart. He is neither of those.
I’m starting to think both you and him are bots, and someone is laughing at me for responding to bots.
No, no, relax, all is well in Geller-land
Yeah, sure it is punk. Stop talking to me you patronising gimp.
Oh my
oh my YHWH 🙂
Yeah, that too. Poor sewer, I was hoping to rehabilitate him… Achmed must have done a number on the guy.
“Achmed must have done a number on the guy.”
A number? That guy couldn’t beat up a stuffed bear you senile turd. Just his sheer repetitiveness and awfulness is what gets to me, and the barely believable fact that he actually believes he is intelligent.
A lot like your own worthless, retarded, floor-licking self really.
Hey I thought you shut me down already. I was enjoying that…
I sent poor little sewer maintenance home, bawling to its mother … All that I have ever done is to point out how it HUMILIATES itself with each “comment” that it makes.
Poorly educated, little sewer maintenance, with the intellect of an aphid.
I sent sewer maintenance home, bawling to its mother. TOO funny, little one. Such a poorly educated little thing.
I truly pity it.
Oh.. right… how did you do that then?
I must have missed that part…
You are so poorly educate, little one, that you miss everything.
You poor, poor little thing. I truly pity you.
You, little one, are so poorly educated that you miss everything.
Are you going to run, bawling, to your mother again?
I sent that poorly educated little thing away, bawling to its mother.
Lefties who spend hours online every day insulting people cannot figure out why they are lonely and unhappy…
It lives a vivid fantasy life, bragging about performing sexual acts on any number of things. And, on this forum has vividly described its fantasies.
If I were to make book, I’d lay serious odds that it is some flabby, morbidly obese creature that it is still a virgin.
I guess only OBJECTS will satisfy him. He probably has an extensive collection of sex toys because people avoid him.
Good thing that I haven’t eaten in a while.
We all KNOW how poorly educated that poor little sewer maintenance is. Moreover, we ALL have a grand time, laughing at that poor little thing, as it HUMILIATES itself.
Such a poor, poor little thing. I truly pity it.
I see you’re back to trying to bore me to death.
I guess you’ve got no answer for how your retarded comments are supposed to be helping in the fight against ISISlam?
Can you answer that question you pathetic worm? No I didnt think so..
What “comments” have you made that are “supposed to be helping in the fight” against mohammedanism?
Oh, our poor pathetic, poorly educated sewer maintenance has come up with a new one, “worm”.
Can you answer that question? I realize that you are unable to do so, as your education level does not allow such.
You poor, poor little thing. I truly pity you.
Sewer don’t threaten mortality or bodily harm. Then we would have to block you, and we wouldn’t want that…
What’s the problem, Achmed? do you need to k1ll yourself?
Does baby need to k1ll itself?
need to kill ur widdle self but dont have the balls to do it? is that the problem? Try asking someone to shoot you if you cant do it for yourself.
Absolutely nobody with an IQ over 3 cares what you think or has taken any notice of you in your life. And despite hilariously claiming to have “made me cry”, you’re actually desperately unsuccessful, you have just repeated yourself 5 times a day to me for 2 or 3 weeks, it is so clear that you hate me because I’ve said things about you and how stupid you are that you can’t unhear.
Bebby need to k1ll itself huh? Does baby “Achmed” need to suicide but he just doesnt have the balls to do it?
have you lost track entirely in your pitiful life? We’re supposed to be here to complain about ISISlam but you only talk about me. I have tried pointing that out to you many times but you can’t bare to respond to that point because you know I’m right.
You’ll spend the NEXT 3 week desperately trying to get my attention, wont you, you ballless little baby. Because me pointing out how stupid and pathetic you are is the most exciting thing that ever happened in your worthless life.
Baby need to k1ll itself? Huh? Huh “Achmed”? Do you?
That’s a common response of a poorly educated little thing, such as you.
It’s glaringly obvious that you’re stupid. There is NO denying that FACT. Therefore, you come with “I am NOT stupid … YOU ARE!
Too funny, little one.
You are a moslem loving islamophiliac. There is NO denying that.
You have lost at everything that you ever attempted, within the entirety of your life. Nothing but a loser. You are a moslem loving loser.
“You have lost at everything that you ever attempted, within the entirety of your life.”
Wow, yeah, you’re not trying too hard or anything.
That’s a great way of showing all my comments totally didn’t get to you or anything! L-O-f úckin -L
“You are a moslem loving loser.”
Why would I be on this website if I liked islam? Huh? You’re just so, so desperate to make up random sh1t. I am 1,000,000 times more anti-Islam than you. I’ve had anti-Islam thoughts and ideas that your puny brain couldn’t have conjured up in a whole millenium of “thinking”. Dork.
I had a very high, VERIFIED, kill count, serving in Kuwait. You have never killed a moslem. You have never confronted a moslem.
You are a moslem loving islamophilac. There is no denying that fact.
Again, little one, I have had SO much fun laughing AT you as you HUMILIATE your moslem loving self.
Did your mother make you that way?
Did she dress him up in little girl clothes?
He seems very emotional.
I don’t know. One thing is for certain. She made it a homosexual. A moslem loving one, at that.
Well Sewer, I see that you have retired for the evening. And be of good cheer, for tomorrow is another day, by which time we can exchange more sterling insults. And now that you a have been through the gauntlet of love pats, perhaps you will not hesitate to return to Geller Report.
To be serious, Pamela Geller is unique, and an excellent source of info. So although I must admit she keeps questionable company in the form of her commenters, that is not her fault. In fact I count it as a strength of hers, that she can put up with us. It takes forbearance and fortitude.
And don’t worry about being a fudge-packer, we promise not to insult you about it.
You don’t remember why you blocked little sewer maintenance the moslem lover?
When you posted some pictures of atrocities that moslems committed, it became SO offended that it went into a series of obscenity laced rants.
It’s a moslem lover, there is no denying it.
You’ve said “HUMILIATE” to me about 200 times in the last week in the pathetic belief that you are somehow making me feel bad. I really need you to look in the mirror and see that. Hello, little man, sitting in front of your computer, whatever your real name is.
You must be the most retarded creature on planet earth, just like the moth that keeps pinging against the light bulb.
In what way would you (a particularly dense moth) be qualified to call me or ANY human being stupid?
“You are a moslem loving islamophiliac.”
Where did I make a comment that was pro-Islam? Nowhere.
You are totally, pathetically fúcking desperate, just making up random sh1t that comes into your putrid skull.
You are almost tempting me to unblock the little sewer rat.
You HAVE to. Each and every “comment” that it makes, it’s exceedingly poor education shines through. It is SO much fun to laugh at little sewer maintenance while it HUMILIATES itself.
Our multiple personality poster seems to have finally gone!
I hope I have not spoken too soon.
Don’t worry. It loses to everyone. However, it runs home bawling to its mother. She licks its wounds.
Then, being the good little moslem loving masochist, that it is, comes back for another thrashing.
It will be back.
Once again the left has painted themselves into a corner and shot themselves in the foot. Whatever comes of this it’s they that have brought this upon themselves by their own actions. Now we have to endure yet another tidal wave of liberal tears. Sometimes I just wish they would put themselves out of their misery.
a kid with a Churchill and packing a Roosevelt–
Yeah, life is awesome! Well except for the 36% of the country that’s unemployed, and most of the country not being able to afford their bills, and 100,000 people dying from a pandemic, and millions of businesses closed. #BlessedLife
I’d like to read that one. If I had the power/influence, I’d like it to read something like this:
No social media company (herinafter referred to a “company”, as defined Section XX herein) shall infringe upon any rights of free speech or free expression of ideas, thoughts, opinions, dissent, critique, or policy, whether deemed “factual” by biased arbiters or not, and are subject to the full force and intent of the First Amedment of the US Constitution Bill of Rights to the same extent and degree as said amendment applies to the Federal Government. Penalties for adjudicated violations of this EO shall include, but not be limited to, a fine of not less than $1,000 per day, nor more than $100,000 per day, in proportion to the current daily average net subscribers of said company.
Make them cry. Make it $100,000 a day or higher and keep upping it as the offenses mount. Make the second offense $500,000 a day and keep going. Money is all that matter to them so you have to capialize on that as punishment.
The GOP needs to open a plateform named like “RepubliTube” or “ConserviTube” a tube for Conservatives, RINOs excluded
While not giving up the public squares of YouFool and Fakebook.
While not giving up the public squares of YouFool and Fakebook.
Um dude.
There’s already a social network called Gab which was an attempt at an alternative twitter.
Guess what, the “mainstream” propaganda networks have smeared it and basically made it out to be like a KKK meeting ground, etc.. and Apple did everything they could to banish it, make it inaccessible from their devices, etc…
There – I just updated you on the events of, like, 2010. Can I have my fee now gramps?
Wow. What a douche you are.
Don’t be too harsh on little sewer maintenance. It’s simply a very poorly educated little thing, with the intellect of an aphid.
However, it is SO much fun to laugh at that poor little thing as it HUMILIATES itself time, after time, after time.
The poor, poor little thing. We should truly pity it.
This sad “Achmed” whacko has spent the last 3 weeks spamming the same comment to me
He keeps trying to insult me on my sexuality even though it doesnt work at all. He somehow thinks he’s impressing somebody but it doesnt work.
I mean, I thought this was supposed to be a place where we complain about ISISlam, but instead he seems to think it’s an anti-gay website. He has no clue where he is. He’s like a 99 year old dementia patient who went to the wrong care home and wonders why he can’t find his room. LOL
“the last 3 weeks spamming the same comment to me”
I should be so lucky as to get that much of his time. Good thing he didn’t bill you at $500/hr just to ream you out.
Um, maybe he’d like me to “ream” him out. He’s obviously desperately in love with me, which is why he’s spamming me 24 hours a day. I’m not sure if he can even remember why he started attacking me in the first place or what my original comment was all about.
I would sooner have sex with a 90 year old Muslim than him. I wouldnt touch Blechmed with a 10000 foot barge pole.
We already did that. You left in a huff, And now this.
Some families just like to sit for hours and insult each other. It’s not much fun, but it’s better than abandonment, so they keep doing it.
But maybe you are just free-lancing, having derived your skills from an unknown source. In any case, you are welcome to continue insulting me, even if I go off-line. That is, if it pleases you.
Great. There a million moderators all over the web typing up pseudo-philosophical little comments like that, yours isn’t special.
I’m not interested one bit.
Oh I’m sorry I was talking over your head, to others. You weren’t supposed to notice.
We already did that. You left in a huff, And now this.
Some families just like to sit for hours and insult each other. It’s not much fun, but it’s better than abandonment, so they keep doing it.
But maybe you are just free-lancing, having derived your skills from an unknown source. In any case, you are welcome to continue insulting me, even if I go off-line. That is, if it pleases you.
We already did that. You left in a huff, And now this.
Some families just like to sit for hours and insult each other. It’s not much fun, but it’s better than abandonment, so they keep doing it.
But maybe you are just free-lancing, having derived your skills from an unknown source. In any case, you are welcome to continue insulting me, even if I go off-line. That is, if it pleases you.
Sewer: Well if you think he is in love with you jump on it! This could be your last chance!
“I would sooner have sex with a 90 year old Muslim”
Well how about 85? Do you have a cutoff?
Um, maybe he’d like me to “ream” him out. He’s obviously desperately in love with me, which is why he’s spamming me 24 hours a day. I’m not sure if he can even remember why he started attacking me in the first place or what my original comment was all about.
I would sooner have sex with a 90 year old Muslim than him. I wouldnt touch Blechmed with a 10000 foot barge pole.
Um, maybe he’d like me to “ream” him out. He’s obviously desperately in love with me, which is why he’s spamming me 24 hours a day. I’m not sure if he can even remember why he started attacking me in the first place or what my original comment was all about.
I would sooner have sex with a 90 year old Muslim than him. I wouldnt touch Blechmed with a 10000 foot barge pole.
“the last 3 weeks spamming the same comment to me”
I should be so lucky as to get that much of his time. Good thing he didn’t bill you at $500/hr just to ream you out.
No one has “spammed you”. I have only pointed out that you are poorly educate. VERY stupid. And, that with each “comment” that you make, you HUMILIATE yourself.
As far as your sexuality, when you asked about a god, or gods making you a homosexual, I gave you a truthful answer. Your mother made you a homosexual.
There is no denying that you are very poorly educated. That you have NO intellectual capacity. And, more than likely, you are a flabby, morbidly obese little thing that is still a virgin.
Bravo, handjob. Youv’e pissed off the loser pussy.
Thank you, famouswolf. It’s an amusing job. I am deeply surprised that far more haven’t taken part in the task.
“the intellect of an aphid” – beautiful!
My apologies to aphids, worldwide.
“the intellect of an aphid” – beautiful!
He honestly thinks if he says “poor poor little thing” that I’m somehow going to be affected. it is truly the most pitiful pathetic attempt at trolling I’ve ever seen, and his username is the “funniest” thing of February 2004, and he needs to k1ll himself beyond all scientific belief but he doesnt have the balls to do it.
I simply state that you are a poor, poor little thing, due the fact that you are, little one.
I urge you to not kill yourself, little one. That might displease your mother. And, you would NEVER
And why do you need to state it 500 times? Who are you trying to convince of that “fact”, me or yourself?
Shut up, dork.
What’s a dork?
look it up in the dictionary. Oh wait, it’ll just have a picture of you.
Poor little sewer maintenance. Such a poorly educated little thing.
Why, little one, do you insist upon HUMILIATING yourself?
Besides making you a homosexual, did your mother make you a masochist?
I blocked him long ago.
He has a sewer mouth and a sewer brain.
Wow. You are a nasty piece of work.
Also, someone as nasty tempered as you is almost certainly a pussy.
I don’t want your filth and stupidity on my machine, so…you’re blocked.
Bye bye, filthy loser pussy.
The only problem is we shouldn’t let them have a victory and run us off like that.
Google makes AT&T , who was the last monopoly the government broke up, look like a mom and pop store chain. Google, who has worked with HOSTILE foreign governments should be right in the bulls-eye of a monopoly that needs to be taken down.
I’m back on Twitter with a legal team just itching to sue them senseless for what they did before. My first follow: President Trump. My eighth follow: Pamela Geller. Let’s see where this goes. By ALL MEANS, now is the time to reinvade the “public square!” BY ALL MEANS, bring your friendly neighborhood legal team!
I like this post from Breitbart. I embellished on it a bit:
Mega-social media companies such as Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and Google are either:
A “platform” that allows all opinions and is protected by the 1st Amendment. Like Ma Bell in the 1950s, they couldn’t refuse to hook up a phone for you because they didn’t like your politics in your phone conversations,
or
A for profit private business that can do as they please and ban anyone they want, just like any other publishing house. Then they also can be sued for slander and libel for any content.
They can’t have it both ways.
Someone should make that one into a meme!
That perfectly sums it up.
I like this post from Breitbart. I embellished on it a bit:
Mega-social media companies such as Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and Google are either:
A “platform” that allows all opinions and is protected by the 1st Amendment. Like Ma Bell in the 1950s, they couldn’t refuse to hook up a phone for you because they didn’t like your politics in your phone conversations,
or
A for profit private business that can do as they please and ban anyone they want, just like any other publishing house. Then they also can be sued for slander and libel for any content.
They can’t have it both ways.
they are publishers, and should be treated as such, complete with defemation lawfare
If you are a public person, it appears defamation laws don’t apply. We’ll see. Trump has filed suit on some newspapers about the out right lies they state. Libel, slander, and defamation laws need to be lossened up to hold the liberal media and others accountable for what they publish or say.
Another problem that desperately needs attention is voter fraud. It keep popping up!
I don’t know what the solution is for this with no cooperation from the swamp.
I don’t think Trump can Eo this away. How many other JUDGES are out there doing this?
Look how long it took to nail him. He did this when Obama was President! I thought blacks loved him?
South Philly judge of elections admits he took bribes
to stuff the ballot box for Democratic candidates
by Mensah M. Dean and Julie Shaw, Updated: May 21, 2020
A former judge of elections and Democratic committee person from South Philadelphia has pleaded guilty to accepting thousands of dollars in bribes to inflate the vote totals for three Democratic candidates for Common Pleas Court judge in 2015, and for other Democratic candidates for office in 2014 and 2016, U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced Thursday.
Domenick J. DeMuro, 73, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to deprive Philadelphia voters of their civil rights by fraudulently stuffing the ballot boxes for the judicial candidates and for other candidates seeking office in the 2014 and 2016 primary elections. And he admitted violating the Travel Act, which forbids the use of a cell phone to promote illegal activity, McSwain’s office said.
More informaton on it here –
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Al Schmidt, vice chairman of the Office of Philadelphia City Commissioners, which runs elections, said his office found that DeMuro’s 36th Division had a history of more votes being cast on machines than the number of voters who signed poll books,
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https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/voter-fraud-philadelphia-judge-took-bribes-to-stuff-ballot-box-for-democrats/
Felix: “I don’t think Trump can EO this away”
Well I don’t know for sure either.
But my estimate is that Trump will use EOs through the FCC and other regulators, to make big Web communication sites like Twitter into Public Services, like the phone companies. The phone company can’t limit free speech. I can say whatever I want on my own phone. The phone company can’t stop me, or regulate what I say. Phone lines are considered a public service, and free speech is guaranteed.
Even though a private phone company owns the phone system, phone communication is considered a public service. If the cops found out I was discussing a bank robbery on my phone, the cops can bust me for bank robbery. But the phone company can’t bust me.
SO that’s how Trump could open up Twitter. Trump could declare Twitter to be a public service, that cannot control free speech there. Twitter could shut down bank robbery planning on Twitter, because that’s illegal. But they could NOT shut down someone who Tweets, “I like Trump”, or, “I hate China”.
The Public Service designation would apply to big communication sites, like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, but NOT to Geller Report. That’s an info and news site, not a communication utility. So Pamela Geller could still block commenters she chose, with no regulatory rigmarole.
It’s never a good idea to poke a tiger, it’s an even greater danger to continue to do so. Twitter etc is about to find out just how powerful a United States President can be…
mas y mas..
Public accommodation = the only legal solution this side of defeating the Left, civil war, or the return of Jesus.
Public accommodation = the law. It was invented by the Left, and it has a long history of case law. The only exceptions are for Libtards infringing on the rights of businesses providing personal services when the owners of said business are Christian or Mormon.
The First Amendment will fail … until or unless a sea change comes in the judiciary … because Free Speech only applies to government infringement – and this has been sufficiently confused by Lefty Litigation that the government can infringe on political speech – and normal speech – and inconvenient facts that happen to be true, but nothing else.
Anti-Trust will not work. They broke up Standard Oil … how did that stop the Rockefellers or their schemes? They broke up Ma Bell. How did that work out? … Did you get your reparations from the Railroad Robber Barons? …
Anti-trust will not work because it assumes these asset holes “created wealth” using their Horatio Alger Luck and Pluck Just Like the Bright Young Whippersnapper from Central Casting …
… Nothing could be further from the truth.
Social Media Tech Giants are as authentic ‘start up businesses’ as ‘boy bands’ are authentic spontaneous musical artists … to restate …
… Google is as much a capitalist business enterprise as Milli Vanilli are musicians. (With apologies to Milli Vanilli – at least the actors hired for the job knew how to play their instruments)
As for ‘alternative’ platforms – never mind such platforms would be echo chambers where a small cadre just talk to each other –
… This does not seem to account for the fact that WE support the Tech Giants whether we want to or not. They operate the internet and dominate the internet. They control access to advertising – and their allies in the Lefty NGOs are ready to destroy advertisers who venture into the waters.
The Tech Giants have a base income from government contracts – for reasons that should be obvious – but apparently are not – in addition to the revenue stream from advertising and ecommerce.
Access to this income cannot be replaced by an ‘alternative’ any more than you can replace a rail line with another rail line – When the Rail Road you want to compete with Controls the Government Who Can Deny You Permission to Build the Line. … It’s not the technical problem per se at issue – because anyone can build an ‘alternative’ platform from scratch … but if you don’t use the internet as your ‘rail road’ … you will have to have a vast amount of cash – and guess who controls that?
On the bright side …
… None of this would be an issue except …
… Leftists cannot stand the light of facts anymore than cockroaches can stand the light of day …
… If what conservatives had to say was anything less than a hot acetylene torch on a cheap styrene plastic … the Left would be winning.
We just need access … to inject the antidote of truth into their sewer of lies … and they know it.
Good morning Dan. I was so happy to read that Trump is taking action against these fascists and then I was drenched with cold water while reading your comment! lol…. Just kidding. 😉
Let us hope and pray that Trump has the power needed to stop these tech giants from doing exactly what tyrants always do best. May Yahweh have mercy on us.
The roses are blooming in Kansas! So many lovely flowers are in view! 🙂
Thanks eassa, and you too! And here is more today from Trump about Twitter
Trump re-tweets this from Elise Stefanik to Twitter president Jack Dorsey. Jack says ‘blame me’ for my employee bias against Trump. So Elise says, OK I blame you Jack, big time, and for China sycophancy too. Trump re-tweets this to warn Jack Dorsey that ‘mercy’ is not in the cards today.
Trump’s EO may or may not have an immediate effect on Leftist censorship, and I applaud him for trying. But if the Left perceives his EO as a threat to their censorship, they will file a lawsuit and seek an injunction – which will be granted without regard to law or merit simply because ‘Orange Man Bad.’
The primary effects of an EO are aspirational and inspirational. It may lead insight both sides to take more action to ‘fact-check’ their facts, and we all can aspire to check the ‘fact-checker’s’ facts … both would help without necessarily changing the circumstances. Whatever happens – taking any action at all will encourage pro-American Americans to fight harder against the Left’s lies and censorship.
… you and yours have an excellent week!
On Mark Levin’s program tonight he was discussing this issue from the legal immunity perspective that Congress gave Twitter and some other tech companies. As always, Levin has much to say that I wish the entire nation would hear! And as we are witnessing every single day, ignorance in a population is not bliss.
Great post, Dan.
About TIME! But the Devil is in the Details.
Good things happen when you have a President with two masculine virtues.
If Trump doesn’t win the election, its all in vain. The MSM an Big Tech are working overtime to prevent that from happening.
So anyway, why didnt he do this on January 21st 2017?
Twitter, facebook, Googletheir worst fears are coming true – they thought “He wouldn’t Dare” guess what?
Zuckerberg exploded on Jack saying you can’t use Twitter as a platform to fact check stuff. ???? What a hypocrite.
The best part about this, China are about to get a big giant whooping in the digital world.
That should have been done from day ONE – immediately after those Suckerbirds founded their mind blowing companies…
FB, Twitter, Google have become ChiCom propaganda agents. As we are at war with the ChiComs they can be seized as enemy assets and placed under a trustee appointed by POTUS.
Trump can use commandeer in Chief and all the power that goes with defending the nation in wartime to shut these CCP agents down and officeholders and boards with a trustee appointed by the President.
We do not need to wait on a long dragged out antitrust battle that takes years to resolve, if ever. Google, FB, and Twitter have been captured by agents of the CCP and converted into CCP propaganda organs. As we are at war with the CCP they can be seized by President Trump based on national security grounds. The Trading with The Enemy Act first enacted in 1918, enlarged in 1941 is still in effect and can be used to seize the vast CCP holdings in the US. Our allies such as Panama and Canada should be encouraged to seize the vast Chinese investments in their infrastructure. We have all suffered horrific losses in lives and property and the ruin of our economy. I fear the CCP may be preparing a new more virulent virus or bio-weapon to release on us. They have to be stopped now,today,before we are all killed by this murderous band of thugs whose evil has never been equaled in the history of the world.
Zucky shares ownership and control of FB with his wife, Chan, the RedSparrow, and is under the direct control of the CCP, whose objective is, among other things, the sowing of chaos in our society and military.
What they should do is take away their favorable tax status as a Public Square and be treated strictly as for profit with no claim to be a public square. They should not be protected from lawsuits since they do censor and control the content.
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Break up the power of the media, stop all the media been owned by a few. Businesses cross ownership has to stop
Back in the days of relative sanity, ownership of media outlets in multiple markets was strictly limited to prevent exactly what has happened with the MSM. Oh and we never would have given any of our uranium supply to Russia either.
What is more frightening is that the malevolent Google corporation works in tandem with the CCP. They are an evil company working within the United Stares to bring it down for foreign adversaries.
The heads of Google should be indicted on charges of treason!
Google, FB are deeply involved with the CIA and NSA and will do anything to prevent Conservatives from getting the Limited Government that our Founders fought and died to give us.
Excellent!!!
This action is long overdue.
TGFPT – Thank God For President Trump!!!!
Gee, whatever happened to the First Amendment? Oh that’s right, Trump doesn’t believe in it.
You are showing your ignorance of the Press as since from as far back as the Spanish American War a dishonest media has been abusing the 1st Amendment and getting Americans and others killed along the way.
That’s right! google does not believe one should read conservative information. you tube doesn’t think one should show conservative ideas. twitter doesn’t believe it is our right to say anything conservative. So where is the First Amendment???? why all these outfits think they can change our Constitution??? I think the left hates this country! They should go to russia, or venezuela… or maybe to wonderful somalia!
All these “social media” platforms have, from their beginning, been in the inner circle of information gathering of the CIA, NSA and that is why they fight against conservatives as, nobody in government wants what the founders wanted, “Limited Government” and Google, FB, Twitter will do their best to keep government as big as possible to stay on the good side of Deep State.
FB abd Google have both seen their shares drop. FB nearly 10%. The most important message from Trump is his EO will encourage competitors to quickly emerge and compete for their customer base. The big tech social media companies do not appear to be immune from competition. They have much to fear.