Posted on 01/12/2025 7:03:22 PM PST by Rummyfan
Trump has chosen people who understand the threat of government coercion—because they have experienced it firsthand.
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen recently expressed what many felt at the reelection of Donald Trump: not triumph so much as relief. “I hope this last ten years increasingly is just going to feel like a bad dream,” he told podcast host Joe Rogan. “I can’t believe we tolerated the level of repression . . . and anger and . . . emotional incontinence and . . . cancellation campaigns.” Much of it was orchestrated or encouraged by our government.
One could say many things about Trump’s cabinet picks. At times, they seem to embody Government by Middle Finger. But they also, undeniably, represent Government by the Canceled: an assemblage that doesn’t need to be reminded of the administrative state’s ability to coerce the American public by calling in favors from Big Tech or pulling the levers of regulation, audit, or investigation. Many have experienced such treatment firsthand.
Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick to lead the intelligence community, was briefly placed on a government watch list, she says, for criticizing Kamala Harris. The Biden White House and surgeon general pressured social-media companies to censor Stanford epidemiologist Jay Bhattacharya’s attempts to warn the public that the Covid lockdowns were the biggest policy error in American history; Trump named Bhattacharya to head the National Institutes of Health. And Elon Musk, appointed to lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, knowingly overpaid for Twitter to give Americans a sphere for free speech. At takeover, Musk immediately released the Twitter Files, revealing a coordinated effort by the Biden administration to censor the speech of Americans whose views it disfavored. The Biden administration repaid Musk by targeting his businesses with unprecedented levels of regulatory harassment.
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Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick to lead the intelligence community, was briefly placed on a government watch list, she says, for criticizing Kamala Harris.
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The way I understood it is that she had government spys traveling with her, on airline flights.
If a former elected official travels overseas to meat with someone like Assad, if you were someone who’s job is to protect the country to look the other way?
Worth a read.
Keep your friends close, your enemies closer.
I would be worried if she were trying to coverup her actions
“The way I understood it is that (Tulsi) had government spys traveling with her, on airline flights.”
I heard that too. But she was considered an Enemy of the Biden Administration for traveling to Syria to try to figure out what was really going on there, as she knew she was getting lied to by our ‘intelligence’ community.
In any case, she’ll now be in a position to make those same people who kept lying to her to put up or shut up, and maybe even get some of them fired.
Elon Musk bought Twitter-—now x-—to establish a sphere for free speech.
Musk immediately released the “Twitter Files,” revealing a coordinated effort by the
hate-America Biden cabal to censor the speech of Americans whose views it disfavored.
The vindictive Biden admin “repaid” Musk by viciously targeting
his businesses with unprecedented levels of regulatory harassment.
Excellent article. I do not express my political views at work for fear of being cancelled or fired.
This article is why we have freedom of the press.
“ If a former elected official travels overseas to meat with someone like Assad, if you were someone whose job is to protect the country to look the other way?”
Does the name John Kerry mean anything to you?
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Cancellation is too mild of a word IMO. Its really more like bullying, silencing and ostracizing.
Good article. Thanks for posting.
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