Wednesday, January 13, 2021

So now what do we do?

Dan Bongino was being interviewed by Glen Beck. Bongino was saying that he cannot go along with anything that might be considered as a call to violence to defend America. He used the old "That's not who we are" platitude. I would like to agree with him.

I am just not sure that I can.

Another video included snippets from Ami Horowitz. He was in New York asking New Yorkers about "unity." All of them were saying how we should live in peace and harmony and sing Kumbaya. He then asked the same people if they were willing to work with or compromise with conservatives. It turns out that conservatives were not to be included in the Kumbaya Choir. Conservatives should be exiled and be punished for their views.

It has been said in the past that if conservatives do not like the censorship, or should I say, protections offered by social media sites, conservatives should just "start their own."

Well, people have taken them up on that. Parler was making tremendous gains as people were leaving -- either voluntarily or involuntarily -- sites such as Twitter. Then Apple and Google removed the Parler app from their app stores. It is not as though Parler is a "Conservative" site. It was started by a Democrat, John Matze Jr. It's just that Matze understands what section 230 means and acts accordingly. Parler was using servers provided by Amazon, but Amazon decided to remove Parler from it's servers in violation of its contract to give 30 days notice. Gab, another non-censoring social media site was told that it was being dropped by its domain registry company, Go Daddy. Gab has also been dropped by PayPal.

So conservatives should not only start their own social media sites, but they should start their own app stores. And their own server providing companies, and their own domain registration companies, and their own online pay services. Just to be sure, such "start your own" defence is not available to Christian bakeries.

A President calling for people to peacefully exercise their First Amendment rights is now an impeachable offence. Prominent Democrats and leftists calling for Trump supporters to be sent to re-education camps and having their children taken away is perfectly acceptable.

We just saw the Democrats take control of the United States Senate after another questionable vote count in the run-off election in Georgia for its two seats. That was another case of "Oh, let's stop counting for tonight and pick up where we left off in the morning" but somehow a ton of votes, favoring the Democrat candidates, mysteriously were counted in the night when there was no counting going on. At least one of the Republican candidates fell victim to shrinking vote count syndrome.

I see no way that anyone who has an IQ above room temperature can even believe that there were not some questionable things that happened with the Presidential election. However, for some reason, to even question that election implies that you are a direct descendant of Benedict Arnold. I can't help but wonder why not look closely at the concerns and either put them to rest or find out they were true. There is enough evidence to suggest that it is worth looking at.

I still have a hard time believing that the Democrats really won enough elections to take control of the House in 2018. There were a number of races where the Republican was ahead. They were not landslide victories, not they were not squeakers, either. Most, if not all of those "recounts" had the Democrat come from behind. I doubt there was a one where, after the recount, the Democrats said, "Gosh, I guess the Republican won that after all."

The Democrats have been honing their skills at stealing elections since the Washington Governor's race in 2004.

And now Dan Bongino says we cannot even think of resorting to violence. I am not, necessarily, issuing a call for violence, but just what does he suggest?

Obviously, elections are a fools errand now.


 

3 comments:

  1. We may as well get it on now while we still have our 2A rights.
    Democrats have shown that they are capable of doing ANYTHING to get their way.
    Their way isn't ours.

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  2. Wonderful article, Matt. Top-notch writing.

    This is a black day. I'm glad I read your piece, I am avoiding all mention of this phony inauguration today. I find it reprehensible that Pence will not see President Trump off. Less surprising is the turncoat McConnell and his ilk. I noticed after Loeffer lost, she threw Trump under the bus and said she would not be challenging electors. Such moral fortitude!

    I don't know, we've tried everything else. We've been above it all while the far left took over academia, hollywood, sports, the media and much of DC. If we want change, we have to use their tactics and be BETTER at it than they are. I knew on Nov. 4th, after the writing was on the wall, that the GA run-off was also lost. If they managed a presidential steal...well, a state election would be a walk in the park.

    I'm angry and I'm very sad at seeing what our beloved country has become. At least there are a few patriots left to fight for us, the freedom caucus has gotten much stronger and Ted Cruz along with a handful of other senators will still fight for we the people and our constitution.

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    1. I don't think McConnell was a turncoat. McConnell was being the beltway establishment Republican that he is. Democrats did not want Trump. RINO’s (spelled “most of the Republican Party”) did not want Trump.

      How dare the people elect someone who says he’ll actually work for the people and then go to Washington and actually do it. They’ll teach us to actually think that they are there to work for us.

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