Posted on 07/01/2020 4:02:42 PM PDT by weston
Ellen Carmichael
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He singularly took down HillaryCare when he had the tenacity to school President Clinton on basic economics in a townhall. Clinton, smug as ever, smirked as he thought Cain would side with him. He was wrong. Herman humiliated him.
https://youtu.be/ptrTa8C_Pl4?t=5
Herman Cain at a 1994 Town Hall debating with Bill Clinton the cost of Hillarycare.
Master troll. pic.twitter.com/dAvlDK5FTs— Julian's Rum 🥃 (@JuliansRum) July 30, 2020
PIZZA pic.twitter.com/qJ8hnmsDrC— Jhomes55 (@Jhomes551) July 30, 2020
I copied it from this article:
Such a smart guy. Thanks for posting.
I wonder why the delay.
https://www.courthousenews.com/ohio-speaker-arrested-in-60-million-bribery-case/
COLUMBUS, Ohio (CN) — Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder was arrested and arraigned Tuesday in connection with a $60 million bribery scheme related to the $1 billion bailout of two nuclear power plants.
The Republican state lawmaker was arrested alongside four others, including his adviser Jeffrey Longstreth, lobbyist Neil Clark, former Ohio Republican Party Chairman Matthew Borges and Juan Cespedes of the Columbus consulting firm The Oxley Group.
News of Householder’s arrest broke early Tuesday morning when FBI agents arrived at his farm in Perry County.
A 2:30 p.m. press conference held by Southern Ohio U.S. Attorney David DeVillers shed light on the criminal charges against Householder and his co-defendants.
DeVillers called the alleged enterprise involving the Ohio speaker “likely the largest bribery and money laundering scheme ever perpetrated in the state of Ohio.”
The prosecutor detailed the creation of Generation Now, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization he said was used to funnel money to an undisclosed corporation known as Company A in the indictment, which then allegedly passed funds on to Householder and the others.
A 501(c)(4) is not required to disclose its donor information, and is supposed to be created as a means to promote social welfare.
“Not a dime of the money went to any social cause,” DeVillers said.
According to prosecutors, millions of dollars were filtered to Company A through Generation Now to both pass House Bill 6, which authorized the power plant bailouts, and to defeat a later ballot initiative that sought to overturn the law.
DeVillers refused to disclose the identity of Company A, widely believed to be FirstEnergy Corporation, because no one from the company has been charged, but admitted that “everyone knows who Company A is.”
FirstEnergy’s stock price had dipped more than 14% by Tuesday afternoon after news of Householder’s arrest became public.
Householder, 61, allegedly received more than $500,000 personally, most of which he used to pay for legal fees related to an unrelated lawsuit. Some of the other defendants allegedly transferred millions to firms they controlled in addition to payments to themselves.
The Ohio House speaker and his co-defendants attended a virtual arraignment Tuesday. Householder faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of racketeering and conspiracy charges.
He was released on bond without supervision, but was ordered by a federal judge to avoid contact with any of his co-defendants and to remain in the jurisdiction of the Southern District Court of Ohio.
He must also surrender any firearms in his possession.
DeVillers thanked those who aided the FBI’s investigation but told reporters, “We are not done with this case.”
The prosecutor said the “overt” portion of the investigation has just begun, and that law enforcement officials are currently serving subpoenas and executing search warrants that were previously kept under wraps to avoid detection by Householder and the other defendants.
Householder is currently serving his second term as speaker, following a lengthy absence from politics after his first term ended in 2004 with an FBI investigation into alleged kickbacks. No charges were filed after that investigation concluded in 2006.
He returned to politics in 2016 when he was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives by the voters in District 72, and used support from Democrats to ascend back to the position of House speaker last year.
Lead FBI investigator Chris Hoffman also spoke to reporters Tuesday, saying the process of “rooting out public corruption is extremely difficult.”
Hoffman called the alleged crimes “a shameful betrayal of public trust.”
“Today’s announcement,” he said, “comes with a warning, from city hall to the statehouse: all forms of public corruption are unacceptable.”
Q #4617 & #4618 available
A federal judge in Manhattan has temporarily blocked the unsealing of documents relating to the defamation lawsuit filed against Ghislaine Maxwell by Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre until she has a chance to appeal the ruling releasing the documents, the New York Post reported.
US District Court Judge Loretta Preska agreed late Wednesday to delay the release of documents until Monday, unless the Circuit Court order them to remain sealed
4617
Redrop: Dangerous Freedom over Peaceful Slavery
Q
!!Hs1Jq13jV6
30 Jul 2020 - 12:25:50 PM
Q drop #4618:
4618
Do Not Mistake Silence for Inaction
Q
!!Hs1Jq13jV6
30 Jul 2020 - 12:27:45 PM
Do not mistake silence for inaction.
Q
Did you see Netflix documentary on Epstein? It was actually pretty good, stories told by several victims.
Our military and national defense only work if we have a strong economy to support them. And the economy only works if we are educating our youth properly. That isn't happening, thanks mostly to Teachers Unions restricting school choice. What EO would fix that? @POTUS— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) July 30, 2020
Arizona teachers union is calling for "6 days of action" against reopening
On one of the days they're telling teachers to write their obituaries to the governor.— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) July 30, 2020
Good grief.
QAnon accounts banned by Twitter have already returned, with over 100,000 followers
Last week, Twitter announced that after over two years of almost unchecked growth by the QAnon conspiracy theory, it was taking steps to crack down on the activity of believers, including targeted harassment and sharing of links to QAnon websites.
The effectiveness of that measure, however, is questionable. Major promoters, supposedly banned, are still rampantly posting.
QAnon, which holds that a military intelligence team is using the message board 8kun to leak clues to their upcoming (and forever delayed) purge of deep state sex traffickers, has grown explosively on Twitter since late 2017.
Twitter has outsized importance in the Q movement, as popular QAnon promoters use it to decode Q’s posts, share videos and memes, alert Q acolytes to possible deep state “comms” hidden in tweets, and attempt to win over new converts.
From March to June 2020, there were over 12 million tweets that mentioned Q or one of its associated catchphrases, according to a new report from extremism research think tank the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.
Many of these tweets are also part of direct harassment swarms carried out against high-profile users who have fallen afoul of the Q movement, including Chrissy Teigen, Lady Gaga, Patton Oswalt, and Tom Hanks. And since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, Twitter has seen a massive spike in QAnon disinformation and harassment, driven by the unchecked spread of coronavirus conspiracy theory videos like “Plandemic.” And just weeks earlier, Twitter was part of an explosive, QAnon-driven conspiracy theory that furniture giant Wayfair was using its website to sell missing children to traffickers.
So the site taking steps to curb the conspiracy theory’s reach was greeted as positive news by journalists and Twitter users alike, even if Q fans rolled it into their conspiracy theory that the site was hopelessly under the sway of deep state-linked celebrities.
Y’all have a rampant pedophile community on your site & you’re spending your time banning QAnon people because Chrissy Teigen had a temper tantrum.
— Ashley StClair & (@stclairashley) July 22, 2020
Twitter initially announced it would suspend 7,000 Q-related accounts responsible for abuse or ban evasion, stop recommending QAnon accounts in searches, suppress QAnon-friendly hashtags in trending topics, and prevent links to QAnon sites from being shared.
A week later, Twitter has indeed taken some of these steps. Some high-profile Q accounts have been banned, and it’s no longer possible to send direct messages with links to Q sites.
Overall, mentions of QAnon and its related hashtags are down across the board.
“From July 15th to the 22nd there were one million QAnon posts from 427,000 unique authors,” extremism researcher and Ph.D. candidate Marc-André Argentino told the Daily Dot. “From the 22nd to the 28th there have been 809,000 posts, down 34 percent, from 302,000 unique authors,” a number down 14 percent from just before the ban.
But a large-scale crackdown of QAnon believers and total suppression of the conspiracy theory either hasn’t happened yet, or never was going to. Twitter never said it would entirely deplatform Q, the way Reddit did in 2018 when it banned dozens of Q subreddits. It would merely reduce the ability of users to find material related to the conspiracy and to limit its public reach.
More than that, almost all of the major banned accounts have already come back to the site with a new or alternate account and picked up right where they left off.
Within a few days of the news breaking, Twitter suspended several high-profile QAnon-promoting accounts. The first to go was “Inevitable ET,” an influential user with over a quarter of a million followers that had been banned well over a dozen times, only to create a new account each time.
A few days later, Twitter banned QAnon promoter and podcaster Tommy “Tommy G.” Gelati, after he had unleashed a swarm of harassment on Daily Beast writer Will Sommer, who had written a story about Gelati’s previous conviction for bank robbery. Then on Monday, Twitter once again suspended QAnon promoter and conspiracy theorist Joe M, who had rebuilt his following under the name SheepKnowMore after previously being banned in April as StormIsUponUs.
These three QAnon promoters, with well over half-a-million followers total, were notorious for spreading conspiracy theories, harassment, and disinformation, as well as for creating new accounts to get around bans. They are just the sort of accounts tailormade for Twitter to ban as part of a sweeping crackdown on a violent conspiracy theory that’s gotten out of control and made the site less safe for regular users.
But as of July 30, all three were already back on Twitter under newly created or reactivated alternate accounts: Joe M as ToddBurgun, Tommy Gelati as ReturnOfTheGedi and Inevitable ET as mrbotus_520.
None of the three made any real effort to hide who they were, dropping easily deciphered clues into tweets on their new accounts or on Parler, where Q promoters tend to go to complain about their Twitter bans. They let Q fans know what new account to check out and instantly picked up tens of thousands of followers.
Todd Burgun
Return Of The G
IET
Together, they have racked up over 100,000 followers already, swiftly encroaching on their pre-ban reach.
Beyond allowing banned accounts to sneak back on, many other high-profile QAnon promoters are still active and prolifically spreading conspiracy theories. QAnon-driven disinformation is still going viral, including a recent video of a group of pro-hydroxychloroquine doctors that got millions of views in hours, thanks in part to being shared by Q promoters.
And Q believers are using alternate hashtags to get the word out, including #CueAnon and #17Anon, while regular favorites like #WWG1WGA are still easily searchable.
Twitter is by far the most important digital battlefield in the war that Q followers see themselves fighting against the deep state. Q believers won’t give up on Twitter and migrate to a “free speech” site like Parler for this simple reason: Twitter is too popular with “normie” and “awake” users alike to walk away from.
So unless Twitter implements a real ban, QAnon is here to stay.
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