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Politics : The Donald Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mongo2116 who wrote (39171)	12/1/2020 4:01:34 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 73854

He did no investigation and did not interview anyone. So his opinion is garbage. That's not how things work in my country, the USA. That's how they work in your country, Venezuela. Here's another example of how Communists like you operate: ------- "And Why Stop There?": CNN Analyst Calls For Sweeping Regulation Of Free Speech On The Web Authored by Jonathan Turley, We previously discussed the unrelenting drumbeat of censorship on the Internet from Democratic leaders, including President-elect Joe Biden.Those calls are growing as anti-free speech advocates see an opportunity in the Biden Administration to crackdown on opposing views. One vocal advocate of censorship and speech controls has been CNN media analyst Oliver Darcy who just ratcheted up his call for de-platforming opposing views. Like many anti-free speech advocates, Darcy simply labels those with opposing views as spreading “disinformation” and demands that they be labeled or barred from social media. In a recent newsletter, Darcy calls for every tweet by Trump to be labeled as disinformation while asking “and why stop there?” Precisely. Once you cross the Rubicon of speech regulation, there is little reason or inclination to stop. Just look at Europe. Darcy wrote: “Nearly every tweet from the president at this point is labeled for misinfo. Which had me thinking. Why doesn’t Twitter just take the step of labeling his entire account as a known source of election disinfo? And why stop there? Why not label accounts that repeatedly spread claims the platform has to fact-check?” There was a time from the very touchstone of American journalism was the rejection of such calls for censorship, including at CNN. What is chilling about Darcy’s writings is that they reflect the view of many now in Congress and in the Democratic Party. Indeed, they reflect many in the Biden campaign. Once a party that fought for free speech, it has become the party demanding Internet censorship and hate speech laws. President-Elect Joe Biden has called for speech controls and recently appointed a transition head for agency media issues that is one of the most pronounced anti-free speech figures in the United States. It is a trend that seems now to be find support in the media, which celebrated the speech of French President Emmanuel Macron before Congress where he called on the United States to follow the model of Europe on hate speech. Darcy is calling for more active and extensive regulation of speech to protect users from thoughts or views that he considers false or dangerous: “Think of it as a version of NewsGuard for Twitter.” “NewsGuard” has a lovely Orwellian sound to be added to other codes for censorship like Sen. Richard Blumenthal recently calling for “robust content modification” on the internet. Who can object to a NewsGuard, which Darcy describes like some beneficent St. Bernard watching over our news and social postings? Of course, what Darcy considers “disinformation” or what Blumenthal considers “robust content modification” is left dangerously undefined. So put me down as preferring free speech without the helpful guards and content modification. Instead, I hold a novel idea that people can reach their own conclusions on such is disinformation just as Darcy does.

To: Mongo2116 who wrote (39171)	12/1/2020 4:03:38 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 73854

What are you Communists trying to hide? Why don't you want anyone inspecting the Dominion servers? Communists always try to hide things, because they are committing crimes they don't want the public to see. This is your Communist Party called the Democrats and you are one of them. This is how things work in Venezuela. -------- Powell: Dominion Server Removed From Fulton County While Lawyers Sought Restraining Order Authored by Ivan Pantchoukov via The Epoch Times, Attorney Sidney Powell said on Monday that someone had removed a Dominion Voting Systems server from a recount center in Fulton County, Georgia. “Someone went down to the Fulton center where the votes and Dominion machines were, claimed there was a software glitch and they had to replace the software, and it seems that they removed the server,” Powell told “Lou Dobbs Tonight” in an interview aired on Nov. 30. Powell added that her team does not know where the server is. Dominion’s software and hardware features prominently in two lawsuits filed by Powell in Georgia and Michigan. The lawsuits claim that the software is vulnerable to manipulation by hackers and was used to alter to vote totals in the presidential election. Powell prefaced her comment by saying that the alleged removal of the server took place when her team was seeking a temporary restraining order against the resetting, wiping, or altering of any of the Dominion machines. A district court judge subsequently granted the temporary restraining order on Sunday night. Powell said her team is making significant progress in both cases while preparing to files suits in other states. She said the lawsuits are meant to stop the runoff elections in Georgia in January “because all the machines are infected with the software code that allows Dominion to shave votes from one candidate and give them to another and other features that do the same thing.” “Different states shaved different amounts of votes. The system was set up to shave and flip different votes in different states. Some people were targeted as individual candidates. It’s really the most massive and historical egregious fraud the world has ever seen,” Powell said. Dominion has vehemently denied these and other allegations. A Dominion Voting Systems server crashed on Nov. 29 during the second recount in Georgia, according to a spokesman for Fulton County. “A newly purchased Dominion mobile server crashed,” the spokesman told The Epoch Times via email. “Technicians from Dominion have been dispatched to resolve the issue.” The office of the Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, was told of the issue and is aware of attempts to fix the problem, the spokesman said. Dominion and Raffensperger’s office didn’t immediately respond to emailed requests for comment. The judge presiding over the Powell case in Georgia has scheduled a hearing concerning the temporary restraining order for Dec. 4. According to an affidavit from a GOP poll worker that was filed alongside the request for a restraining order, an election official wrote in a message on Nov. 25 that some ballot-counting machines were to be reset on Nov. 30 so they could be used in the machine recount requested by the Trump campaign given the tight margin with former Vice President Joe Biden. Upon seeing the message, the poll worker said they notified their supervisor because they were concerned about wiping of the machines. “I am seeing lots of notices from lawyers about possibly impounding the machines,” the poll worker wrote, according to the affidavit. “Lawyers are now saying that the machines should be confiscated immediately before this happens to protect forensic data. They are saying those machines need to be impounded ASAP. Yikes. Maybe I’m being overly paranoid but let’s be sure this is what we’re supposed to be doing.” The supervisor responded: “It’s what we are supposed to do. It will take a court order to stop this process—so I guess we need to keep watching the news. If we get a court order to stop, we will see it in our SOS information.” When the poll worker asked if the reset will wipe the forensic info from the machines, the manager said that “Atlanta already did it.”

To: Mongo2116 who wrote (39171)	12/1/2020 4:06:46 PM
From: RetiredNow	1 Recommendation Recommended By Oblivious Respond to of 73854

Here's another example of the difference between freedom loving Republicans who practice real science and Communist Democrats who preach about "follow the science", but don't the first thing about how science works. Communists prefer narratives over verifiable facts. That's why you Communists cannot every win free and fair elections and have to steal them, because your Communist ideas don't work in real life. --------- Florida Gov Slams Lockdown-Advocates As "Today's Flat-Earthers" Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told reporters Monday that public schools will remain open despite the parabolic rise in COVID-19 cases, according to AP News. DeSantis strongly argued against lockdowns and stated they do not work: "Closing schools due to coronavirus is probably the biggest public health blunder in modern American history," the governor said at a news conference. "People who advocate closing schools for virus mitigation are effectively today's flat-earthers." DeSantis said the state's public school system would remain open while pointing out countries like Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland all kept children in schools despite the rapid spread of the virus in their respective countries, adding that these European countries kept their schools open without negative consequences. The governor pointed out the rise in cases in the state, though he said other states have it worse. "We've seen cases increase but look at all the other states that are seeing them increase way, way more," DeSantis said. "If you look at the per-capita hospitalizations, we are not even close to the top of the stuff.* So I think people should put it in perspective."* His comments come as Dr. Michael Osterholm, who serves as director of the Center of Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, and is the latest "scientist" to join Joe Biden "special coronavirus transition advisory team," recently supported a " nationwide lockdown" to drive down the number of new cases. A nationwide lockdown would drive the number of new cases and hospitalizations down to manageable levels while the world awaits a vaccine, Osterholm told Yahoo Finance on Wednesday. “We could pay for a package right now to cover all of the wages, lost wages for individual workers for losses to small companies to medium-sized companies or city, state, county governments. We could do all of that,” he said. “If we did that, then we could lockdown for four-to-six weeks.” There's just one thing... as De Santis notes more vociferously than most, the real 'science' - where actual experiments are undergone, results noted, and theses concluded - shows that lockdowns do not work... But as JPMorgan noted in a detailed study, there are no meaningful curve development differences between countries with and without strong curve intervention. This makes the bank question if existing public health intervention (i.e., lockdown/ stricter social distancing) should remain in place next year, and leads JPM to conclude that "public health policy should consider approaches biased towards economic/pubic mental health over the urge to close the curve in 2021." To reach its "startling" conclusion, JPMorgan compared countries without lockdown, keeping the economy open under certain levels of social-distancing (Brazil, US, Sweden, Japan, Korea) to countries with strong curve intervention (UK, Germany, Italy, France, China, India) to see any meaningful differential in the curve development. This outcome suggests that COVID-19 follows a similar diffusion and development process of other infectious diseases with certain life cycles. Therefore, JPMorgan would argue that public health policy should consider a bit more biased approach on economic/pubic mental health over the aim to close the infection curve in 2021 as lockdowns could be costly to the economy. JPMorgan's conclusion: "Keeping public activities open and tracing susceptible people leveraging technology looks to have better risk reward to us." To further DeSantis' point, a recent study in The Lancet found no correlation between the severity of lockdown and the number of covid deaths. On Sunday, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci told ABC's "This Week" that children should be kept in school and the spread of the virus pandemic among children "is not really very big at all." Are opening schools a risk? "I'm glad that Dr. Fauci has made this position very public," @JoeBorelliNYC tells Newsmax TV. "Most have agreed that opening schools is not truly a danger." t.co pic.twitter.com/22XbQ8x00Q — Newsmax (@newsmax) November 30, 2020 There's enough evidence that supports schools should remain open - though Democrats continue their calls to lock down everything.