The Purge Is Here: Twitter Banning Influencers on Right, Removing Followers

 RedState

"The left and Big Tech have been moving quickly over the past couple of days.

"The President of the United States has been booted off Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram. Shopify has booted MAGA merchandise from their stores.

"Parler is getting pressure by both Apple and Google to ‘moderate’ their site, ‘moderate’ their belief in free speech. So far their CEO is refusing the pressure.

"Meanwhile Joe Biden is thinking up a new law to deal with “ideologically-inspired” “domestic terrorism.” He declared the thousands of protesters who had been at the Capitol were “domestic terrorists,” making no distinction between those who committed crimes and those who had not (which was most of the people).

"Twitter is going after anyone they think is violating the narrative. They’ve now booted a slew of well-know influencers on the right. More pointedly, they took down the people who were not posting anything offensive that would violate the terms of service but were questioning things about the Democratic narrative about the facts.

"Among the people who have been booted:

"Salem Media’s Kevin McCullough, who posted questions about the votes moving backwards in the Georgia run-offs and posted Trump’s video from his rally.

Greg Kelly

@gregkellyusa

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Jan 7

A GREAT supporter of the Truth and Trump is Kevin McCullough, superb talk radio host. Apparently, he’s days on Twitter have come to an end! (We are becoming so much like China it’s SCARY) you can find him on PARLER

@kmcradio

. I have to set up my own PARLER account soon!

 Twitter Boots Trump After Dems Ask, Now Glenn Greenwald Warns About Troubling New Biden Moves  . . . "Remember how when Trump was talking about prosecuting Antifa for demonstrable crimes against the federal government during the rioting/statue attacks? The left freaked out that he might be going after people for political opinion/ideological reason.
Attorney General Bill Barr made it very clear that it wasn’t about ideology but crime. Here’s Joe Biden literally using the term “ideological inspired” and defining the Capitol protesters, all of them, as “domestic terrorists,” making no distinction on the basis of crime or no crime. “Don’t dare call them protesters,” Mr. Biden said in remarks from Wilmington, Del. “They were a riotous mob. Insurrectionists. Domestic terrorists. It’s that basic. It’s that simple.”

"Democrats seemed to think that was just fine. But those on the right and the folks more on the left, like Glenn Greenwald, raised the warning red flag." . . .

Spare Me. Biden And Democrats Never Cared About Law And Order

 

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Spare Me. Biden And Democrats Never Cared About Law And Order   . . . “ 'At this hour our democracy is under unprecedented assault unlike anything we’ve seen in modern times,” Biden said, adding that what unfolded was “an assault on the rule of law like few times we have ever seen it.”

"To be clear, Americans have seen a protracted assault on the rule of law recently. We witnessed the downfall of law and order in America all summer. For months, American cities were under siege, at the mercy of Antifa and Black Lives Matter thugs. At least 30 people were killed during the BLM riots while the corporate media stood in front of burning cities, characterizing them as “peaceful protests.” Yet never did Biden use the forceful language he did yesterday, calling it an “assault on the rule of law.” One of those cities was Kenosha, Wisconsin, where I spent days reporting on the riots this summer. " . . .

Black Lives Matter Activist Took Part in Storming of Capitol

The Epoch Times

"A Black Lives Matter activist was part of the group that entered the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

"John Earle Sullivan, who has advocated for an armed revolution on social media, was arrested in July 2020 for making a threat of violence and criminal mischief. He organized a protest with Black Lives Matter activists and members of the far-left Antifa network. According to the Deseret News, Sullivan damaged vehicles and urged people to block roadways. Video footage captured him threatening to beat a woman.

"Photographs showed Sullivan inside the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6. Sullivan has since given interviews claiming he took part in the illegal breach of the building as part of an effort to understand supporters of President Donald Trump.

" 'For me, it’s important from the group and the people around me to see that side of things, to see the truth,” Sullivan told KSL-TV. “I don’t care, like what side you’re on, you should just see it raw.” . . .

Despite Big Spending, California’s Highway System Ranks Among Worst in the Nation

 Reason

"California’s highways rank 43rd in the nation in overall cost-effectiveness and condition, according to Reason Foundation’s 25th Annual Highway Report."

"California’s state-controlled highway system continues to struggle in performance and cost-effectiveness when compared to other states across the country. For the second straight year, California’s highways rank 43rd in the nation in overall cost-effectiveness and condition, according to Reason Foundation’s 25th Annual Highway Report.

"The Annual Highway Report measures the condition and cost-effectiveness of state-controlled highways in 13 categories, including pavement condition, traffic congestion, structurally deficient bridges, traffic fatalities, and spending per mile.

"California is in the bottom 10 states in six of the report’s 13 total categories.  . . .

. . . "But California’s drivers and taxpayers are getting worse highway conditions at higher costs than drivers in other comparable states, especially Texas, which ranks 18th overall in performance in cost-effectiveness. Despite having several of the largest metropolitan areas in the country—Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, and El Paso—drivers in Texas waste fewer hours stuck in urban traffic congestion than Californians. Texas also manages to deliver better pavement conditions while spending far less money per mile than California." . . .

The leftist purge begins

Rush Limbaugh deactivates his Twitter account after President Trump permanently banned  "Radio host Rush Limbaugh's Twitter account has been deactivated. Twitter confirmed to USA TODAY that the account wasn't suspended but "deactivated by the owner."   Limbaugh is considered the leading conservative talk radio host and has been on the airwaves for more than three decades. He has been an adamant supporter of President Donald Trump and his Twitter account, @RealRLimbaugh, had a similar to the style of Trump's @realDonaldTrump. Twitter permanently banned Trump from the social media platform Friday, citing the risk that he would incite further violence. He had 88.6 million followers.Twitter, which had locked Trump out of his account Wednesday for inflammatory posts after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, lifted the suspension the following day after he removed the offending tweets. Twitter warned it would suspend Trump permanently if he continued to violate its rules." . . .

Conservative #WalkAway Facebook page removed along with hundreds of thousands of videos and followers   "Conservative activist Brandon Straka announced that Facebook has removed his page with over half a million followers and also banned members of his team.

“ 'FACEBOOK has removed the #WalkAway Campaign and has BANNED ME and EVERY MEMBER of my team!!!” Straka, founder of the #WalkAway movement, tweeted Friday morning.

“ 'Over half a million people in #WalkAway with hundreds of thousands of testimonial videos and stories is GONE,” he added. “Facebook has banned everything related to #WalkAway.”

"Straka also included screenshots of messages from Facebook, including one that said the page was “removed for violating terms of use.' ” . . .

I have a dozen paid employees. I have dozens of volunteers. ALL BANNED at the same time today.
Absolute mayhem!!
Is this the unity and healing of Joe Biden’s America??? This is horrifying https://t.co/5znsPZYfgC

— Brandon Straka (@BrandonStraka) January 8, 2021

 Great Purge: Steve Bannon’s Podcast Shut Down By YouTube For “False Election Claims”  Via NY Post:

YouTube has banned Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast for violating its terms of service.

The president’s former chief strategist’s podcast was live earlier Friday before being taken down by YouTube, Washington Examiner Breaking News Editor Daniel Chaitin tweeted.

The alt-right leader’s podcast featured the false claims about missing ballots and voter fraud promoted by the president that drew protesters to Washington that later stormed the Capitol in a deadly uprising Wednesday.  . . .

 Twitter on Friday announced it is taking the unprecedented step of banning President Trump from the platform “permanently.”    “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” the company said in a statement shortly after 6 p.m."

Attorney Sidney Powell Now Suspended from Twitter – Joins the Growing List of Trump Supporters Being Silenced  "Powell joins General Flynn is the latest in what appears to be a massive purge of Trump supporters from the platform.  Stop the Steal organizers Michael Coudrey and Ali Alexander were both banned the evening of the protest on the Capitol. Lin Wood was kicked off the next day.  The Gateway Pundit’s Joe Hoft was suspended last week for putting up a post about Hunter Biden.

"The purge is hitting both small accounts and those of President Trump and his prominent supporters and allies. They seem to be targeting just about anyone who questions the 2020 election results." . . .

Apple Gives Parler 24 Hours To Implement A “Moderation Plan” Or It Will Scrub It From App Store Permanently…

Federal agents descended on multiple Tennessee Republican House members' homes and state offices on Friday, collecting evidence while executing search warrants as part of an unspecified investigation just days before the legislative session begins.

Democrats Cheer Twitter For Engaging In Political Censorship: ‘Heal And Find A Common Path Forward’  . . . "Democrat Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), who most claim is a “moderate” or a “centrist,” cheered the political censorship, writing on Twitter: “Thank you @twitter for taking this action. We must come together as a country to heal and find a common path forward.' ” . . .  Heal the open wounds inflicted by Democrats?

Found Another Antifa Goon At U.S. Capitol “Riot”…

 Will this get reported? Nope…

Enough With The Outrage

This could go on and on, but the point is obvious: Democratic Party politicians and reporters have no standing to complain about political violence (let alone mostly peaceful protests) until they get their own house in order.

John H. Hinderaker   "Like pretty much all conservatives, I have consistently criticized riots and other forms of political violence for many years. That includes yesterday’s Washington, D.C. riot. You can’t say the same about liberals, however. Until yesterday, one might have thought that liberals consider rioting and other forms of political violence to be as American as apple pie.

"You could write a book in support of that proposition, but for now let’s cite just a few examples. Do you remember when President Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2017? Leftist Democrats rioted in Washington that day. That riot was arguably worse, more violent and more destructive, than what happened in D.C. yesterday. The liberal rioters destroyed stores, set vehicles on fire and battled with the police. Six police officers were wounded. Here is a video reminder:"

"I don’t recall a single Democratic office-holder denouncing the Democrats’ Inauguration Day riot, and the Associated Press came perilously close to praising the rioters.

"Over the ensuing four years, Antifa and Black Lives Matter rioted countless times, bringing devastation to cities like Portland, Seattle, Kenosha and Minneapolis. Did any Democrats denounce these riots? Not that I remember. Many Democrats endorsed them, or seemed to do so. Kamala Harris, for example, said about the riots in June:

They’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop. This is a movement, I’m telling you. They’re not gonna stop. And everyone beware because they’re not gonna stop. They’re not gonna stop before Election Day and they’re not going to stop after Election Day. And everyone should take note of that. They’re not gonna let up and they should not.

"This was after 12 people had been killed in Democrat-sanctioned rioting, and billions of dollars in destruction committed. Have any Democrats denounced Black Lives Matter for its role in the riots? Not one. Has any Democrat denounced Antifa? Not that I know of, and some, like Keith Ellison, have specifically endorsed Antifa’s political violence.

"Democratic Party journalists have joined the party’s politicians in excusing riots. The New York Times, for example, published an admiring profile of Antifa. The Washington Post, likewise, has carried water for Antifa." . . .

Alveda King Slams Kamala Harris for Plagiarizing Uncle: 'She's Nothing Like' MLK Jr.

"Niece of Martin Luther King Jr. nukes Democrat over 'Fweedom' scandal". Don't fret, Comma-La; Stephen Colbert will continue to slobber over you. TD

Jay Greenberg

"Alveda King, the niece of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., has slammed Democrat Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) for plagiarizing her uncle, declaring "she's nothing like" MLK.

King took the California senator to task on Tuesday for apparently plagiarizing MLK Jr.'s "Fee-dom" anecdote for her own claimed childhood "Fweedom" story.

Prominent Evangelist King maintained that Harris’s worldview has nothing in common with that of the late civil rights activist.

"Kamala knows that her worldview is totally different than the worldview of Martin Luther King Jr.,” King said during an interview with Fox Business host Lou Dobbs.

"So it’s a big stretch for her to compare herself or to sound like him or to use some of his some analogies."  . . . More...

Soros+ antifa= Democrats

January 1st, 2021: Still Report Says Antifa Will Be Infiltrating Trump Supporters on Jan 6 - Describes Their Dress Code

"The instigators of rioting in the Capitol who were in all black clothimg are probably antifa infiltrators who wore all black under some superficial trump/rightwing stuff, so their comrades would know not to attack them."

Were leftist provocateurs leading the way into the Capitol?  . . . "Rowan Scarborough reports in the Washington Times:

Trump supporters say that antifa members disguised as one of them infiltrated the protesters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

A retired military officer told The Washington Times that the firm XRVision used its software to do facial recognition of protesters and matched two Philadelphia antifa members to two men inside the Senate.

The source provided the photo match to The Times.

One has a tattoo that indicates he is a Stalinist sympathizer. antifa promotes anarchy through violence and wants the end of America in favor of a Stalinist-state. "No more USA at all" is a protest chant.

XRVision also has identified another man who, while not known to have antifa links, is someone who shows up at climate and Black Lives Matter protests in the West.

There Are a Lot of Phony Claims, But There Was at Least One Antifa Ally Inside the U.S. Capitol   "Video available on Twitter (for now) shows a crowd at one door the Capitol and Trump-supporters shouting "That's Antifa!" and trying to stop a black-clad person with a helmet that says "Trump" on its back (suitable for news cameras) from breaking into the building.", , ,

"One case of antifa infiltration that appears to have merit is the case of John Sullivan. He’s a man of the Left and a BLM/antifa protester from Utah. He was interviewed near the Capitol on Wednesday and admitted to being inside with the protesters. Like the entertainer Madonna, Sullivan was seen last in August in Washington calling for destroying the White House and encouraging a mob to “rip the president” out of the Oval Office."

Chuck Schumer Attacks Trump Supporters: ‘the People Who Follow Him’

 Der Schumerglower on display

. . . "Schumer declared:

But make no mistake, make no mistake, my friends, today’s event did not happen
spontaneously. The president, who promoted conspiracy theories and motivated these thugs, the president, who extorted them to come to our nation’s capital, egged them on, he hardly ever discourages violence [sic], and more often encourages it [sic]. this president bears a great deal of the blame. This mob was in good part president trump’s doing, incited by his words, his lies. This violence, in good part, his responsibility, his everlasting shame.Today’s events certainly, certainly would not have happened without him. Now, January 6 will go down as one of the darkest days in recent American history, a final warning to our nation about the consequences of a demagoguic president, the people who enable him, the captive media that parrots his lies, and the people who follow him, as he attempts to push America to the brink of ruin. As we reconvene tonight, let us remember, in the end, all this mob has really accomplished his delay our work for a few hours.

"Breitbart.com reports: Trump won 75 million votes in the November 2020 presidential election." . . .

The Trump Movement As We Knew It Ended Today

 

William A. Jacobson  "It’s often hard to understand the impact an event will have in the future when you are going through it in real time or soon after.

"Today’s storming of the Capitol, including rioting, is one of those real-time events about which I’m comfortable reaching some conclusions.

"The first and most obvious conclusion is that while peaceful protests outside the Capitol are appropriate, fighting with Capitol Police outside, breaking into the building in a violent and menacing manner, fighting with police inside, and then proceeding towards and into the House and Senate chambers requiring evacuation of representatives and Senators is not acceptable. A woman being shot dead by police, while not inevitable, was a consequence. It’s even more unacceptable when Congress is performing a constitutional duty to open and count electoral votes.

"The fact that we have seen violent conduct from the left in recent years also directed at key institutions does not excuse it. Yes, among many other events, we saw anti-Scott Walker protesters take over the Wisconsin statehouse and menace lawmakers, and Antifa/BLM assault federal courthouses and turn sections of cities into war zones. And yes, Democrats and the media excused such violence, and there is a double standard as there always is where pro-Trump “mostly peaceful” protests are not given the same consideration as mostly violent leftist protests. And yes, it’s possible (but not clear) that some of the violent rioters were outside agitators. Politics is not fair, and it’s never been more unfair than how Trump supporters are treated by the media.

"But there was something uniquely offensive to our form of government to have such violence directed at the U.S. Capitol on such a constitutionally meaningful day.

"Which leads me to the second point about which I am confident. Today has forever changed the trajectory of the Trump movement." . . .

Watch Mitt Romney Get Ripped on Airplane Full of Trump Supporters

They should be afraid of us. The government should be fearful of the people. That’s what should keep them in line and do their jobs. They’re not doing that at all in Washington, and Mitt Romney hasn’t been a true Republican in quite some time either.

 Matt Vespa  "The Republican base doesn’t like Mitt Romney. I mean, they really don’t like him. The former 2012 presidential nominee found himself at the kids’ table after he voted with

Democrats on one article of impeachment against President Trump over the bogus Ukraine quid pro quo scheme that never happened. Romney is part of the old wing of the GOP. This wing has zero grasp for the fight and is painfully weak at delivering knockout blows. The man has no sense when it comes to going for the jugular. The Democrats are not to be trusted or liked on the Hill. Romney thinks otherwise. The thing that’s saving him from political annihilation is that he’s from a solidly red state. Could there be a primary challenge? Sure, but is there another hard-core Mormon conservative in Utah who has the connections and pockets to mount a serious primary effort? I want Romney gone. He’s a thorn in the side of the party. He’s up there with Jeff Flake. Alas, the results from last night’s Georgia runoffs bought him some time. We now have to tolerate Mitt and stick together. He did vote to put Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court, which was a good move — but the impeachment vote is unforgivable. He should be booted from the party, but only once we’re on better footing on the Hill.