Representative Mark Green Condemns Last-Ditch Impeachment Efforts

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“Every one of us has a role to play in bridging the divide”, Dr. Green said. “I urge all Americans to get off social media, and instead, talk with your neighbors, go to your house of worship, and call that family member you always argue with at Thanksgiving. And I hope President-elect Biden will ask his Congressional colleagues to work toward uniting the country instead of pursuing a rushed impeachment that will only deepen the wedge between us.”

https://markgreen.house.gov/2021/1/rep-mark-green-statement-on-congress-impeachment-vote

Angela Merkel Calls Suspension of Trump’s Twitter Account “Problematic”

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The German chancellor on Monday joined the growing rank of world leaders criticizing the unrestrained censorship that big tech companies are now engaged in, silencing elected officials, candidates and millions of citizens who have views and opinions that differ from the tech companies’ own.

https://www.wionews.com/world/suspension-of-trumps-twitter-account-is-problematic-angela-merkel-356052

Free Speech Platform Gab Reports 753% Surge in Traffic in 24 Hours

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As Twitter and Facebook are purging conservative and other dissenting users, alternative social media platforms, including Gab, MeWe and Parler are seeing an unprecedented surge in users and traffic as users are abandoning (or being suspended from) Facebook and Twitter.

https://www.nationandstate.com/2021/01/10/free-speech-platform-gab-reports-753-surge-in-traffic-in-24-hours/

U.S. Lifts Self-Imposed Restrictions on Relations With Taiwan

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For decades, the Unites States has limited itself in it’s interactions with it’s ally Taiwan, in an attempt to appease the Communist Party which rules the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

The PRC on the other hand, has become increasingly confrontational towards the U.S. in recent years.

On Saturday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the U.S. is finally abandoning it’s self-imposed restrictions when interacting with Taiwan.

https://www.state.gov/lifting-self-imposed-restrictions-on-the-u-s-taiwan-relationship/

Parler App can Still be Downloaded on its Own Website

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[Update 2/15/2021]: As of today, Parler is back online. While Apple does not allow iPhone users to install the Parler app and the app is also no longer available on Google’s PlayStore, at least Android users can once again download and install the Parler app directly from Parler’s own website (see link below).

[Update 1/11/2021]: On January 11, Amazon Web Services turned Parler offline. Parler is since looking for a new hosting company to host its social media platform. It currently has a placeholder website at www.parler.com, but no functionality beyond occasional notifications on its quest to return. The download links for the app (see below) are currently not working either.

[Original article]: As part of the Great Purge, big tech companies are currently aggressively removing alternative content and opinion and are banning conservative, libertarian or simply dissenting users.

Twitter just permanently banned the sitting President of the United States from its platform an hour ago. Google just removed the free-speech Twitter-alternative app Parler from its app store, Apple is considering a similar move.

The good news is: the Parler smartphone app is still available for download on Parler’s own website:

Here is the link to the Android App: https://company.parler.com/android

Here is the link to the iPhone app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/parler-app/id1402727988?ls=1

And here is the link to Parler’s website: https://parler.com/

After Jack Dorsey Allows the President of the United States to Communicate Again, Trump Addresses the Nation

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In his first tweet since Twitter suspended his account when Trump called on the demonstrators at the Capitol to go home, the President posted a video in which he calls for calm and reconciliation. He condemns the violence that was committed at the Capitol and states that the focus is now on ensuring a smooth and peaceful transition of power.

The President’s twitter account is still heavily redacted by the social media platform, which also deleted the video in which Trump tells protestors to go home.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1347334804052844550?s=20

We All Want (Mostly) the Same Thing

Posted on by Jeff Portnoy

The reason for the protests and riots that are happening right now, is for reasons that are way more similar to why the Black Lives Matter protests and riots happened than either side is willing to admit.

At the core of these riots, at the core of why they voted for Trump in the first place, is frustration and fear over what they see around them: lost jobs, low wages, the cost of living skyrocketing out of control.

Simply put: people who are happy and comfortable don’t riot. The problem is that they’re misplacing their anger and rage.

This isn’t about left vs. right, Republican vs. Democrat, White vs. Black.

It’s about the people vs. a relative handful of incredibly powerful politicians and cronies who rob us every day.

They rob us of our money, but they also rob us of our opportunities, of our livelihoods, of our future. As we’ve seen many times, sometimes they rob us of our lives.

Their actions fill us with rage, and they redirect our rage towards each other.

Remember in the 2000s when Occupy (anti big business) & the Tea Party (anti big govt) were fighting each other while big govt handed trillions of dollars to big business, created regulations to turn them into monopolies, and laughed at the rest of us?

That’s happening right now.

We just got yet another “stimulus” bill where we got $600, crony corporations & big government agencies got trillions, & we got stuck with the bill for it, with interest.

This was passed in a broad bipartisan agreement. Pelosi, Harris, McConnell and Trump all had a part in it.

They want us to riot so they can use it as an excuse to pass even more authoritarian “tough on crime” measures. Can you imagine what Biden and Congress are going to do after this fiasco?

The thing is, it doesn’t have to be this way. It never did.

We don’t have to live with a system that wasn’t built for us, but relies on us to keep going.

We don’t have to be struggling to make ends meet.

We don’t have to beg for crumbs from the bread that was stolen from us.

There is only one way to fix this:

Recognize that this is all a scam, that Rs & Ds are in on it together.

Never vote for them again.

Replace them with people who will dismantle their thieving, murderous system.

Don’t hate your neighbor, work with them to fix this for good.

– Spike Cohen