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Posted on December 15, 2022

Calls for political violence should never be tolerated, right or left

BASEDPolitics’ Hannah Cox writes, “Earlier this week, the House Oversight and Reform Committee held a hearing on white supremacy, allegedly to examine “how anti-democratic extremist groups threaten democracy.”

The hearing had a pretty blatant left-wing bent and the intentionality behind it clearly meant to dress down the Right and paint its members as extremists. All of the witnesses there were invited by Democrats, and Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace was one of the only right-wing members who appeared…

Mace began her questioning by asking the witnesses whether rhetoric is one way to inflict harm on American democracy. They all agreed it was.

Next, she asked if rhetoric on social media and rhetoric targeting officials with violence are threats to democracy. Again, they all said yes.

Then, having her soon-to-be-victims of internet records right where she wanted them, Mace circled the wagons.

Pulling out cardboard reprints of tweets made by one of the witnesses, Alejandra Caraballo of Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic, Mace proceeded to read one of the most hypocritical things you’ll ever see.

'The six justices who overturned Roe should never know peace again,' Alejandra Caraballo tweeted. 'It is our civic duty to accost them every time they are in public. They are pariahs. Since women don’t have their rights, these justices should never have a peaceful moment in public again.'

Deadpanning, Mace asked Caraballo if she believed her own tweet was a threat to democracy. Caraballo faltered and said she wanted to provide context to her statement.

Mace was having none of it…

Watching Nancy expose this kind of blatant hypocrisy does spark joy. But more importantly, it’s a needed reminder that violence, and especially violent rhetoric, can be found across the ideological spectrum. While the media harps on about January 6th, the same alarmism is never applied to Antifa, left-wing activists burning private businesses, or the Bernie Sanders fan who shot at members of Congress a few years ago during their practice for the congressional baseball game.

Violence isn’t a political weapon. It should be condemned across the board by all people. And while speech is not violence, speech calling for violence against others should be taken seriously and addressed as it can lead to violent actions being taken.”

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Posted on December 15, 2022

Remember, neoconservative is just another word for not conservative

Posted on December 14, 2022

FBI pushing Americans to sign away their Second Amendment rights

The Washington Examiner reports, “The Secret Service and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement secretly coordinated with the FBI to strip U.S. citizens of their rights to own, use, or even buy firearms, according to internal emails obtained by the Washington Examiner.

Behind closed doors and without congressional approval, the FBI has stripped gun rights from at least 23 people with internal forms, the Washington Examiner reported. However, Secret Service and ICE , two agencies under the Department of Homeland Security, have also quietly used these same forms, emails show.

The emails were first obtained by the firearms rights group Gun Owners of America amid its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the FBI and shared with the Washington Examiner. They demonstrate a more widespread effort than was previously known by the federal government to use the forms, which the Daily Caller revealed in September had been presented between 2016 and 2019 by FBI agents to people at their homes in Maine, Michigan, and Massachusetts, as well as in other undisclosed locations.

Signatories were registered with the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System and asked to declare that they were a 'danger' to themselves or other people or lacking the 'mental capacity adequately to contract' their lives. Many of the people targeted by the FBI in the past had reportedly made violent threats on social media, in chat rooms, and in person, internal records show.”

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How can the FBI do this? Good question.

They can't, constitutionally.

BASEDPolitics' Tom Knighton writes, "The question now becomes how many people in total were pressured to sign these forms in the first place.

Well, that’s one of the questions. Perhaps a more important question regards the legality of these forms in the first place.

Within US law, there are a handful of ways someone can be stripped of their Second Amendment rights and only one that involves something other than a criminal conviction. In that case, someone can be adjudicated by a court as “mentally defective,” an archaic term for someone not competent enough to be trusted with gun rights.

The implication with these individuals seems to be that the FBI doesn’t think they can be trusted. Yet as one lawmaker noted, that’s not something they can lawfully do.

'Americans can’t simply sign their constitutional rights away, even to the FBI,' Rep. Michael Cloud of Texas told the Examiner. He also promised that the incoming Republican House majority would investigate this.

However, Cloud is absolutely correct. Americans can’t sign their rights away. They’re free to not exercise them, but they remain should they change their mind.

Further, there’s a strong implication that the FBI doesn’t just ask folks politely."

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Posted on December 14, 2022

We can't let the COVID era pass without holding those who did great damage accountable

Posted on December 14, 2022

Prices have increased much faster than wages for 20 months in a row, an all-time record

Posted on December 14, 2022

The debt grew by nearly $3.7 trillion during Biden's first 23 months in office

Posted on December 13, 2022

Why are we sending foreign aid to the Taliban?

Posted on December 13, 2022

How Fauci fooled America

Posted on December 13, 2022

National debt: $31.4 trillion. Total unfunded liabilities: $173 trillion. How do you think this ends?

Posted on December 12, 2022

Why was Jay Bhattacharya blacklisted on Twitter? He met with Elon Musk to find out

The New York Post reports, “Twitter CEO Elon Musk invited a Stanford professor to the social media giant’s headquarters Saturday to begin looking at why the old regime acted so 'imperiously' and placed the epidemiologist on a blacklist for arguing that COVID lockdowns would harm children.

Stanford University professor of medicine Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was one of many on the platform’s 'blacklist,' according to the second installment of the 'Twitter Files,' which was released on Dec. 8 by the Free Press reporter Bari Weiss.

On Sunday, Bhattacharya tweeted that he spent Saturday at Twitter headquarters after receiving an invite from Musk."

Bhattacharya explained what he learned during his visit in a series of tweets.

Bhattacharya was an important voice throughout the COVID-19 pandemic when he challenged some of the conventional wisdom coming from the federal government that he was later proven right about.

We should be grateful that Twitter now seems to be a place where debate can take place once again and doesn't require everyone to follow the CDC or government line.

It's easy to understand why Dr. Jay Bhattacharya would be grateful for the seemingly new and improved Twitter 2.0.

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