Blue on Blue – Central Park Karen being investigated by Human Rights Commission
Investigation launched into Central Park incident involving white woman and black man The commission sent a letter to the woman, requesting her cooperation.
Both these people seemed like jerks. It is hard not to laugh at this conflagration of liberal pieties.
Democrat priorities during virus
Headline of the day
The Central Park Dog Case Is Covington 2.0
I have little sympathy for either of the jerks in this unfortunate situation, but I agree with this:
“Franklin Templeton is a deep-pocketed firm that publicly damned Ms. Cooper as obviously a racist after taking very little time to weigh the facts, in a post that has generated hundreds of thousands of likes. This was tantamount to announcing that any other firm that might be interested in employing Ms. Cooper in the future was a haven for racism. What is she supposed to do with her life now? If I were Ms. Cooper, I would be focused on one potential source of income only: Suing my former employer for its libel and demanding a hefty sum.”
Kyle Smith:
“…Once again, further evidence upended the narrative of a viral video — but not before someone’s life and reputation were destroyed.
Funny thing about viral videos: They don’t necessarily give the full and complete context for what happened, do they? They might, for instance, begin only after someone does something bizarre and provocative but record solely the reaction. Covington was only 16 months ago. Did we learn anything from it? Apparently not. A similar thing happened in Central Park this weekend, the world reacted in the same way, and once again a misleading video made it appear that a target of a deliberate provocation was a racist for reacting understandably to the provocateur…”
Tweet of the day
He wasn't a spy…. he was hired by the FBI to secretly engage in conversations under false pretenses and then report back whatever he learned in those conversations.
But he wasn't a spy.
— L A R R Y (@LarryOConnor) May 22, 2018
Rioters are criminals
Rioters Are So Angry About Police Killing That They… Stole Baby Clothes and Air Fryers From Nearby Target
The video of the arrest of George Floyd is disturbing. We need to wait for the case to work its way through the legal system or at least until we have a better and fuller understanding of the facts before we make a determination about who did what and why. As has happened over and over with issues like this the initial video is often incomplete and the initial reactions by viewers are usually wrong.
We need to rethink our virus response
Tucker Carlson on social media censorship
Tucker Carlson Monologue On Big Tech Censorship
"They're authoritarians. If they're willing to censor President @realDonaldTrump they will think nothing at all of silencing you, and they don't. They gladly do it & no one pushes back." pic.twitter.com/PDDBQf5xAs
— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) May 28, 2020
Social media is going toxic
Twitter claims ‘no evidence’ of mail-in voter fraud despite numerous convictions since 2016
Do Americans want private social media companies restricting free speech? No. These companies are too big for America’s good. The situation requires government oversight. It is not often that I say that.
Lauren Boebert – I’m running in Colorado’s 3rd district to get rid of RINOs. Owner of Shooters Grill. I am the mom who told Beto HELL NO you’re not taking our guns!
.@ShootersGrill update: Back in business, met payroll along the way, additional seating in parking lot is on its way. Glad to be heard because freedom is a right, not a permission. Thank you for your support. Now let's go win this Republican primary and fight for freedom in DC! pic.twitter.com/ORkidkMo0f
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) May 27, 2020
A.G. William Barr assigns U.S. Attorney John Bash to examine criminal unmasking by Obama administration
https://youtu.be/xjKyFUQ1Djs
The Remains of an Administration
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Victor Davis Hanson:
“…Each day that the Obama administration fades into the past, its wrongdoings manage to wander back into the present.
After years of suppression, all sorts of strange events keep popping up to remind us of what little is left of the Obama years — the Susan Rice memo, Christopher Steele deleting his computer records, FBI-doctored and lost 302s, text messages wiped clean, the bizarre Obama January 5, 2017, Oval Office meeting, the ambush interview of Michael Flynn, the unmasking and leaking of redacted names swept up in reverse-targeting surveillance operations, the administration fraud perpetrated on the FISA courts. The list is so overwhelming and bizarre that it ensures that anything at any time can now appear. And the result keeps reminding Americans of how corrupt were the years between 2009 and 2017 and how untruthful was the coverage of such institutionalized wrongdoing…”
What the ‘Obamagate’ Scandals Mean and Why They Matter
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Charles Lipson:
“…Amid the flurry of details about spying on Michael Flynn, lying to secret courts about Carter Page, leaking classified documents, and more, it’s easy to get lost in the muck. It’s important to stand back, identify the worst abuses, and explain why they matter for American democracy. These abuses didn’t simply follow each other; their targets, goals, and principal players overlapped. Taken together, they represent some of the gravest violations of constitutional norms and legal protections in American history. Whether you are Democrat or Republican, whether you like Donald Trump or loathe him, these violations matter.
Some call this debacle “Obamagate” since the key officials were his appointees and the White House was directly involved. But they got plenty of help. Some came from the permanent bureaucracy, especially in law enforcement and intelligence. Still more came from the mainstream media, which served as conduits for classified leaks aimed at Trump, his campaign, and then his presidency. For over three years, the media’s top story was “Trump colluded with Russia.” When that imploded after the Mueller Report, they moved on to impeachment.
The entrenched elites behind these scandals are the Swamp at its most sulfurous. They spied illegally on Americans and used powerful tools of government to damage the party-out-of-power, its outsider candidate, and then his new presidency. It’s worse than a single surveillance scandal. It’s three huge ones, intertwined. All were abuses of power. Some were crimes…
Scandal No. 1: Massive, illegal surveillance of American citizens, using the database of the National Security Agency
Scandal No. 2: Spying on the Trump campaign
Scandal No. 3: Covering up this spying, continuing it during the new administration, charging that Trump was not legitimately elected, and impeding his presidency with major investigations, based on false charges…”
Mail in voting
Commentary on the twitter troll in charge of “fact-checking” Trump has been brutal, here is a little taste
https://twitter.com/votenickmoutos/status/1265551965070798854
Social media is going toxic
Donald Trump: ‘Twitter Is Now Interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election’
Related:
Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. We can’t let a more sophisticated version of that….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 27, 2020
….happen again. Just like we can’t let large scale Mail-In Ballots take root in our Country. It would be a free for all on cheating, forgery and the theft of Ballots. Whoever cheated the most would win. Likewise, Social Media. Clean up your act, NOW!!!!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 27, 2020
More on “rules are for the little people”
Bias – social media edition
Social media is going toxic
Twitter Fact-checker Claimed Trump Admin Are ‘ACTUAL NAZIS’; Mocked ‘Fly Over’ States
This is a case where government should act to maintain an impartial and level field. Censorship or bogus claims to truth are not acceptable.
Related:
Twitter Brands Trump Vote-by-Mail Post with Fact Check, Citing CNN
Related:
Rubio warns Twitter after it puts fact-check label on Trump tweet
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The law still protects social media companies like @Twitter because they are considered forums not publishers.
But if they have now decided to exercise an editorial role like a publisher then they should no longer be shielded from liability & treated as publishers under the law.
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) May 27, 2020
And @Twitter is getting subsidized by the federal government for that interference in the form of special immunity worth billions. Time to end #BigTech sweetheart deal w/ government https://t.co/fZ8sMjxxWt
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) May 27, 2020