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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…”
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…”
https://twitter.com/votenickmoutos/status/1265551965070798854
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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
This is a case where government should act to maintain an impartial and level field. Censorship or bogus claims to truth are not acceptable.
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Twitter Brands Trump Vote-by-Mail Post with Fact Check, Citing CNN
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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
Trump Derangement Syndrome advanced stage
Mark Zuckerberg Finishes Another Long Day Of Deciding What People Should Believe https://t.co/tHyyFIAyfI
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 27, 2020
This is satire, but is it?
https://twitter.com/EddieZipperer/status/1265374806662397953
There are important lessons here about relying on academic models to predict future results and using those predictions to make public policy. It does not work. Think climate change.
This is awkward to watch on a couple of levels. But Jill was supposed to get in the wide open door and he didn’t know it. She went with it because the press was there. This is elder abuse. https://t.co/5auunHn5bX
— crownwife (@crownwife) May 25, 2020
He has chosen to put himself in the political arena. He is running to be the leader of the free world. He is constantly criticizing Trump. He has to anticipate critical analysis of every thing he does.
Here is my analysis of his physical condition. He is not capable of being president. I don’t think he is capable of walking out of his house and driving himself to the market. I am starting to think he will not be the Democrat nominee.
Update: I watched some other videos from the same venue where he does not look so bad. Still, I question whether he can make it through the election let alone 4 years as president of the United States.
Names to watch…McMaster. Rosenstein….McCain. This crosses party lines and you all need to be prepared. This isn’t about being pro Trump, or anti Trump. You ALL need to understand that….and you need to be willing to call it out irrespective of party.
— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) May 26, 2020
H.R. McMaster. That is hard for me to believe. In fact, I don’t and won’t until I see proof.
If it is true, it is heart breaking. How could that guy have gone so wrong?
