https://archive.vn/w33hk Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald Jan 10, 2021
Ever since FB & Twitter's censorship orgy, all we heard is it's no big deal. Liberals invoked the libertarian mantra that private corporations can do what they want, you can just build a competitor if you don't like it. But you can't: they're monopolies.
Melissa Chen @MsMelChen
Well it's a private company so if you don't like it, you can always...
"create your own social network" "create your own app ecosystem" "create your own payment system" "create your own Web hosting service" "create your own power company" "create your own... country."
It was a Democratic-controlled House sub-committee that just a few months ago issued a lengthy report concluding that FB, Amazon, Google & Apple are monopolies. That means competition is impossible. Now Dems are happy that it's used for them:
https://archive.vn/kTlbY arstechnica
THEY SAY THAT BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO —
House: Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Google have “monopoly power,” should be split
Blockbuster report calls for beefing up enforcement and aiming for breakups.
KATE COX - 10/7/2020, 8:16 PM
For anyone who thinks "Liberals' 9/11" is hyperbolic, not only are Biden & people like @NormOrnstein demanding new anti-terrorism laws (applied domestically), but liberals are explicitly analogizing the Capitol breach to 9/11. It doesn't take inferences:
https://archive.vn/WYlhW Seth Masket @smotus Jan 10, 2021
Imagine 9/11, only no press conferences explaining what happened or what was ongoing, and a third of Congress expressing sympathy with Al Qaida and urging us to forget the attack in the name of unity.
Political scientist, @UofDenver/@CAPatDU. Writer at @MisOfFact, @fivethirtyeight, @denverpost. Wrote "Learning from Loss: The Democrats 2016-20." He/him/his. Denver, CO
https://archive.vn/NOvWt Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein Jan 9, 2021
The House must as an immediate step pass a domestic terrorism statute, with a focus on white supremacist terrorism, and send it to the Senate.
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Norman Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a contributing editor for the Atlantic. Washington, DC
https://archive.vn/HLCZw Bill Scher @billscher Jan 10, 2021
Good
Projects: When America Worked, Scherable, The DMZ. Bylines: POLITICO Magazine, Real Clear Politics. Northampton, MA
Note:
https://archive.vn/oPi5n https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/11RhOuCwzh/
wsj: 'Biden: Capitol rioters were insurrectionists, domestic terrorists. Law against domestic terror, urged to make WH post against ideologically inspired violent extremists, federal crime'
Biden Says Rioters Who Stormed Capitol Were Domestic Terrorists
President-elect says Trump supporters who attacked legislative complex were insurrectionists, not protesters
President-elect Joe Biden called the violence in Washington, D.C., ‘one of the darkest days in the history of our nation.’
By Ken Thomas and Sabrina Siddiqui Updated Jan. 7, 2021 2:23 pm ET
Mr. Biden has said he plans to make a priority of passing a law against domestic terrorism, and he has been urged to create a White House post overseeing the fight against ideologically inspired violent extremists and increasing funding to combat them.
https://archive.vn/JPuh0 dailywire
‘Infamy’: Chuck Schumer Compares Capitol Chaos To Pearl Harbor
By Jon Brown Jan 7, 2021 DailyWire.com
It is very, very difficult to put into words what has transpired today. I have never lived through or even imagined an experience like the one we have just witnessed in this Capitol. I have never lived through or even imagined an experience like the one we have just witnessed in this Capitol. President Franklin Roosevelt set aside Dec. 7, 1941, as a day that will live in infamy. Unfortunately, we can now add Jan. 6, 2021, to that very short list of dates in American history that will live forever in infamy.
This temple to democracy was desecrated, its windows smashed, our offices vandalized. The world saw Americans’ elected officials hurriedly ushered out because they were in harm’s way. The House and Senate floors were places of shelter until the evacuation was ordered, leaving rioters to stalk these hallowed halls. Lawmakers and our staffs, Average citizens who love their country, serve it every day, feared for their lives. I understand that one woman was shot and tragically lost her life. We mourn her and feel for her friends and family.
I want to be very clear: Those who performed these reprehensible acts cannot be called protesters – no, these were rioters and insurrectionists, goons and thugs, domestic terrorists. They do not represent America. They were a few thousand violent extremists who tried to take over the Capitol building and attack our democracy.
Yup. They're scared that conservatives will begin fighting like they do.
And for all their efforts, this is basically how the situation is going as of right now:
Smoothbrain 1: "The right are actually getting pissed enough to put up a fight! What do we do!"
Smoothbrain 2: "Lets take away their ability to talk, work, have money, or do literally anything until they agree to kneel before us."
Smoothbrain 1: "GENIUS!!! Now if only we could figure out why everyone is buying guns and ammo."
Or just ammo in some cases. They have the rest already, and depending on homemade options might not even need that either.
Fair. I was in the gun shop the other day, and he said that while he is still selling a healthy amount of guns, he sells out of 9mm, .45ACP, and .22LR almost as soon as he gets it.
This was punctuated by about 6 people in the 20 minutes I was in there looking for 9mm only to be told they were sold out.
I think people saw this coming. It's fucking everything. Not just guns and ammo, but armor, plate carriers, trauma kits, you name it and has been for 10 months now. I've said it before: people started gearing up for war.