Posted on 10/15/2020 5:03:51 PM PDT by Twotone
If anybody is around to write history in a generation or two, October 14th 2020 will go down as the first day of a new Year Zero. Yesterday, with less than three weeks to go in a national election in a settled democratic society with an ostensibly free press, the woke billionaires of the social media cartel decided to freeze and/or cancel the Twitter/Facebook accounts of the President's press secretary, the Trump campaign, Republican Senate candidates and Republican House members.
So America is now formally a one-party state, at least as far as fair access to media platforms is concerned. In old-school "people's republics", the dictator keeps the opposition party off the air. In the subtler version operated by social media, woke dictators of a nominally two-party state are now openly keeping one of those two parties off your telephones and tablets. Wanker conservatives of the lemming right wonder if this might be, ooh, a "campaign-finance violation". Hey, yeah, maybe John Durham can do that for his next any-day-now investigation-without-end.
Meanwhile, tonight was supposed to be the second presidential debate, subsequently canceled when Trump balked at the official "debate commission"'s unilateral tearing up of the agreed format. The man who would have moderated that debate, Steve Scully, was today indefinitely suspended by C-SPAN after admitting he lied when he said that an accidentally revealing tweet was the result of his account being hacked. (I go back a long way with Mr Scully.) His lie had been not merely accepted but enthusiastically promoted by members of the Blue Cheka, including Clinton flack Joe Lockhart, The Washington Post's Karen Tumulty, and of course the frauds of the "Presidential Debate Commission". Yet they remain "safe" sources of news at Twitter.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
I am in N Nevada, in the Reno TV market.
NEITHER NBC or ABC locally is carrying either ‘town hall’ meeting scheduled for 5 PM Pacific time.
What is going on???
Are they taping it to show it to us at 8 PM our time???
Dammit Mark! You just crushed my soul...
You should start your own TV station if you want to see the town halls.
Mark always leaves the best for last:
If Lindsey Graham and Martha McSally and the Republican Senate survive on November 3rd, so be it. But those of us who’ve expended our energies dragging this useless political party across the finish line every two years need to get serious about redeploying our fast depleting resources into fighting on the turf that matters. We are well past the eleventh hour.
Blue cheka. Brilliant! From wiki-The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission, abbreviated VChK, and commonly known as Cheka, was the first of a succession of Soviet secret-police organizations.
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He’s great but he’s sort of a doom n gloomer.
A brilliant and alarming Mark Steyn piece.
One wonders. Can a Dead CEO issue censorship orders from his urn?
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