Lawmaker Warns ‘TikTok Ban’ Gives President Power to Ban WEBSITES, Not Just Apps
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) has raised the alarm that the new bill ostensibly designed to ban the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok also gives the president the power to ban entire websites.
“The so-called TikTok ban is a trojan horse” said Massie Tuesday. “The President will be given the power to ban WEB SITES, not just Apps.”
“The person breaking the new law is deemed to be the U.S. (or offshore) INTERNET HOSTING SERVICE or App Store, not the ‘foreign adversary.’”
The so-called TikTok ban is a trojan horse.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) March 12, 2024
The President will be given the power to ban WEB SITES, not just Apps.
The person breaking the new law is deemed to be the U.S. (or offshore) INTERNET HOSTING SERVICE or App Store, not the “foreign adversary.”https://t.co/iKtAQFGeQH pic.twitter.com/P26hEbzQrf
Massie then focused on a specific exclusion in the bill.
If you think this isn’t a Trojan horse and will only apply to TikTok and foreign-adversary social media companies, then contemplate why someone thought it was important to get a very specific exclusion for their internet based business written into the bill: pic.twitter.com/LnHsmEgtt9
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) March 12, 2024
Similarly, X boss Elon Musk echoed Massie’s sentiment by saying the new law enables government censorship.
This law is not just about TikTok, it is about censorship and government control!
If it were just about TikTok, it would only cite “foreign control” as the issue, but it does not. https://t.co/3hpePCE1nS— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 12, 2024
Earlier this week, former President Donald Trump also came out against the ban on TikTok by saying the move would empower Facebook, whom he considers “an enemy of the people.”
“Without TikTok, you can make Facebook bigger, and I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people,” Trump told @SquawkCNBC on Monday.https://t.co/xR6QQcMJcr pic.twitter.com/36Dh5Fk2Ux
— CNBC (@CNBC) March 11, 2024
“Without TikTok, you can make Facebook bigger,” said Trump to CNBC Monday. “And I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people, along with a lot of the media.”
Massie has a track record of calling out government overreach.
In November, Massie also raised the alarm of a failed effort to stop a federal mandate that would require all vehicles sold after 2026 to be equipped with a kill switch.
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The Feds Have Set Our House On Fire
Many people still don’t realize just how dire the situation truly is.
Led by a deeply treasonous intelligence apparatus, a compromised dementia-riddled lunatic hijacked the Executive Office of the United States of America. His Marxist communist sympathizing base is following every handbook of sabotage to the letter to quicken the demise of the city upon the hill. They are burning it all down by any means necessary.
Also:
Watch: Triggered Adam Schiff Scolds Special Counsel Hur for Report Criticizing Biden Age, Mental Fitness in Classified Docs Case
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) took issue with Special Counsel Robert Hur during testimony Tuesday, criticizing the federal investigator’s characterization of Joe Biden in his report as an elderly man with memory problems.
“You could have chosen just a comment on the president’s particular recall, vis-à-vis a document or a set of documents, but you decided to go further and make a generalized statement about his memory, didn’t you?” Schiff pressed Hur during House Judiciary Committee testimony.
“Congressman, I could have written my report theoretically in a way that omitted references to the president’s memory, but that would have been an incomplete and improper report,” Hur responded.
Adam Schiff SNAPS at Special Counsel Hur after declaring Biden UNFIT for office in official DOJ report pic.twitter.com/22qwxLcAca
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 12, 2024
Unsatisfied with his answer, Schiff continued to claim Hur intended to denigrate and politically damage Biden with his report, in which he described Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory” with “significant limitations.”
“You could have written your report with comments about his specific recollection as to documents or a set of documents, but you chose a general pejorative reference to the president,” Schiff said. “You understood when you made that decision didn’t you, Mr. Hur, that you would ignite a political firestorm with that language didn’t you?”
Hur replied that politics “played no part whatsoever” in his investigation, however Schiff continued, “You cannot tell me you’re so naive as to to think your words would not have created a political firestorm.”
“You understood that didn’t you when you wrote those words when you decided to include those words?” Schiff asked.
Hur answered that he followed policy and submitted his report to Attorney General Merrick Garland, who he understood would have oversight over what parts of the report to release publicly.
“It was up to the Attorney General to determine what portions of the report would be released consistent with DOJ policy and legal requirements,” Hur told Schiff.
Schiff went on to claim Hur’s report was inconsistent with DOJ policy “that you are to take care not to prejudice the interests of the subject of an investigation,” and continued to insist Hur must have known the political damage his report would have caused Biden.
In his report into Biden’s retention of classified materials released in February, Hur wrote, “Mr. Biden’s memory also appeared to have significant limitations – both at the time he spoke to Zwonitzer in 2017, as evidenced by their recorded conversations, and today, as evidenced by his recorded interview with our office.”
He also wrote his conversations with Biden were “painfully slow” and that he was “struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries.”
“In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse,” Hur’s report stated. “He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 – when did I stop being Vice President?’), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (‘in 2009, am I still Vice President?‘).”
The special counsel also wrote he believed a jury would likely be too sympathetic to Biden because he’s “an elderly man with a poor memory.“
“Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him [Biden], he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him – by then a former president will into his eighties – of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness,” Hur wrote.
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Rep. Jayapal Gaslights After Special Counsel Hur Confirms He ‘Did Not Exonerate’ Biden In Classified Docs Report
Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal (Wash.) gaslighted the American public during Congressional testimony of Special Counsel Robert Hur on Tuesday, insisting that he “exonerated” Joe Biden in his report detailing the former vice president’s retention of classified materials.
During Hur’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Jayapal proclaimed that Hur’s report released last month “exonerated” Biden.
Hur pushed back however, claiming he did not, in fact, exonerate Biden at all, prompting Jayapal to cut him off and again assert he did exonerate Biden.
“I need to go back and make sure that I take note of the word that you used, ‘exoneration’, that is not a word that was in the report–” Hur began.
Rep. Jayapal: “You exonerated [Biden]”
Hur: “I did not exonerate him”
Rep. Jayapal: ““Sir, it’s my time. Thank you.” pic.twitter.com/q6w5Cq2vnG— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 12, 2024
“I’m gonna continue with my questions,” Jayapal interrupted before asserting, “You exonerated him.”
Hur responded: “I did not exonerate him…”
“Mr. Hur, it’s my time!” Jayapal snapped. She then resumed trying to argue that Biden is cleared of any wrongdoing.
But the facts, as Hur explained, found that Biden was guilty of wrongdoing, in that he “willfully retained” classified materials after serving as vice president.
“We identified evidence that the President willfully retained classified materials after the end of his vice presidency, when he was a private citizen,” Hur said during the hearing.
Special counsel Robert Hur: “My team and I conducted a thorough, independent investigation. We identified evidence that the president willfully retained classified materials after the end of his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.” pic.twitter.com/ms018Ar2xS
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) March 12, 2024
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) sought clarification, asking Hur if Biden lied when he told the American people that he did not share classified materials with a ghostwriter.
“That is inconsistent with the findings based on the evidence in my report,” Hur replied.
“So it’s a lie, is what regular people would say. Is that right?” Gaetz asked.
“Yeah,” Hur said with a chuckle.
Special Counsel Robert Hur admits Biden was, in fact, LYING when he insisted he did not share classified information with his ghostwriter pic.twitter.com/K5qctTB4K4
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 12, 2024
To make matters worse for Biden, Hur confirmed that the ghostwriter who received classified materials from Biden was not authorized to receive them.
Former Special Counsel Robert Hur: “We have an audio recording capturing a statement from Mr. Biden saying to his ghostwriter in February 2017: ‘I just found all the classified stuff downstairs’…
— MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) March 12, 2024
…Mr. Zwonitzer was not authorized to receive classified information.” pic.twitter.com/JSEdakIYh6
In sum, Hur’s report concluded that Biden willfully retained classified materials after serving as vice president and shared them with unauthorized individuals, but ultimately did not recommend charges, citing Biden as “elderly” and “forgetful” with “diminished faculties” which he claimed would garner sympathy from a jury.
Watch the full House Judiciary Committee hearing:
The State of Our Nation No One’s Talking About: Tyranny Is Rising as Freedom Falls
“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.”—Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Day by day, tyranny is rising as freedom falls.
The U.S. military is being used to patrol subway stations and police the U.S.-Mexico border, supposedly in the name of national security.
The financial sector is being used to carry out broad surveillance of Americans’ private financial data, while the entertainment sector is being tapped to inform on video game enthusiasts with a penchant for violent, potentially extremist content, all in an alleged effort to uncover individuals subscribing to anti-government sentiments
Public and private venues are being equipped with sophisticated surveillance technologies, including biometric and facial recognition software, to track Americans wherever they go and whatever they do. Space satellites with powerful overhead surveillance cameras will render privacy null and void.
This is the state of our nation that no is talking about—not the politicians, not the courts, and not Congress: the government’s power grabs are growing bolder, while the rights of the citizenry continue to be trampled underfoot.
Hitler is hiding in the shadows, while the citizenry—the only ones powerful enough to stem the authoritarian tide that threatens to lay siege to our constitutional republic—remain easily distracted and conveniently diverted by political theatrics and news cycles that change every few days.
This sorry truth has persisted no matter which party has controlled Congress or the White House.
These are dangerous times.
Yet while the presidential candidates talk at length about the dangers posed by the opposition party, the U.S. government still poses the gravest threat to our freedoms and way of life.
Police shootings of unarmed individuals, invasive surveillance, roadside blood draws, roadside strip searches, SWAT team raids gone awry, the military industrial complex’s costly wars, pork barrel spending, pre-crime laws, civil asset forfeiture, fusion centers, militarization, armed drones, smart policing carried out by AI robots, courts that march in lockstep with the police state, schools that function as indoctrination centers, bureaucrats that keep the Deep State in power: these are just a few of the ways in which the police state continues to flex its muscles in a show of force intended to intimidate anyone still clinging to the antiquated notion that the government answers to “we the people.”
Consider for yourself the state of our nation:
Americans have little protection against police abuse. The police and other government agents have been generally empowered to probe, poke, pinch, taser, search, seize, strip and generally manhandle anyone they see fit in almost any circumstance, all with the general blessing of the courts. It is no longer unusual to hear about incidents in which police shoot unarmed individuals first and ask questions later. What is increasingly common, however, is the news that the officers involved in these incidents get off with little more than a slap on the hands.
Americans are little more than pocketbooks to fund the police state. If there is any absolute maxim by which the federal government seems to operate, it is that the American taxpayer always gets ripped off. This is true, whether you’re talking about taxpayers being forced to fund high-priced weaponry that will be used against us, endless wars that do little for our safety or our freedoms, or bloated government agencies with their secret budgets, covert agendas and clandestine activities.
Americans are no longer innocent until proven guilty. We once operated under the assumption that you were innocent until proven guilty. Due in large part to rapid advances in technology and a heightened surveillance culture, the burden of proof has been shifted so that the right to be considered innocent until proven guilty has been usurped by a new norm in which all citizens are suspects. Indeed, the government—in cahoots with the corporate state—has erected the ultimate suspect society. In such an environment, we are all potentially guilty of some wrongdoing or other.
Americans no longer have a right to self-defense. While the courts continue to disagree over the exact nature of the rights protected by the Second Amendment, the government itself has made its position extremely clear. When it comes to gun rights in particular, and the rights of the citizenry overall, the U.S. government has adopted a “do what I say, not what I do” mindset. Nowhere is this double standard more evident than in the government’s attempts to arm itself to the teeth, all the while viewing as suspect anyone who dares to legally own a gun, let alone use one in self-defense. Indeed, while it still technically remains legal to own a firearm in America, possessing one can now get you pulled over, searched, arrested, subjected to all manner of surveillance, treated as a suspect without ever having committed a crime, shot at, and killed.
Americans no longer have a right to private property. If government agents can invade your home, break down your doors, kill your dog, damage your furnishings and terrorize your family, your property is no longer private and secure—it belongs to the government. Likewise, if government officials can fine and arrest you for growing vegetables in your front yard, praying with friends in your living room, installing solar panels on your roof, and raising chickens in your backyard, you’re no longer the owner of your property.
Americans no longer have a say about what their children are exposed to in school. Incredibly, the government continues to insist that parents essentially forfeit their rights when they send their children to a public school. This growing tension over whether young people, especially those in the public schools, are essentially wards of the state, to do with as government officials deem appropriate, in defiance of the children’s constitutional rights and those of their parents, is at the heart of almost every debate over educational programming, school discipline, and the extent to which parents have any say over their children’s wellbeing in and out of school.
Americans are powerless in the face of militarized police forces. With local police agencies acquiring military-grade weaponry, training and equipment better suited for the battlefield, Americans are finding their once-peaceful communities transformed into military outposts patrolled by a standing military army.
Americans no longer have a right to bodily integrity. The debate over bodily integrity covers broad territory, ranging from abortion and euthanasia to forced blood draws, biometric surveillance and basic healthcare. Forced vaccinations, forced cavity searches, forced colonoscopies, forced blood draws, forced breath-alcohol tests, forced DNA extractions, forced eye scans, forced inclusion in biometric databases: these are just a few ways in which Americans continue to be reminded that we have no control over what happens to our bodies during an encounter with government officials.
Americans no longer have a right to the expectation of privacy. Despite the staggering number of revelations about government spying on Americans’ phone calls, Facebook posts, Twitter tweets, Google searches, emails, bookstore and grocery purchases, bank statements, commuter toll records, etc., Congress, the president and the courts have done little to nothing to counteract these abuses. Instead, they seem determined to accustom us to life in this electronic concentration camp.
Americans no longer have a representative government. We have moved beyond the era of representative government and entered the age of authoritarianism, where all citizens are suspects, security trumps freedom, and so-called elected officials represent the interests of the corporate power elite. This topsy-turvy travesty of law and government has become America’s new normal.
Americans can no longer rely on the courts to mete out justice. The U.S. Supreme Court was intended to be an institution established to intervene and protect the people against the government and its agents when they overstep their bounds. Yet through their deference to police power, preference for security over freedom, and evisceration of our most basic rights for the sake of order and expediency, the justices of the Supreme Court have become the architects of the American police state in which we now live, while the lower courts have appointed themselves courts of order, concerned primarily with advancing the government’s agenda, no matter how unjust or illegal.
I haven’t even touched on the corporate state, the military industrial complex, SWAT team raids, invasive surveillance technology, zero tolerance policies in the schools, overcriminalization, or privatized prisons, to name just a few, but what I have touched on should be enough to show that the landscape of our freedoms has already changed dramatically from what it once was and will no doubt continue to deteriorate unless Americans can find a way to wrest back control of their government and reclaim their freedoms.
This steady slide towards tyranny, meted out by militarized local and federal police and legalistic bureaucrats, has been carried forward by each successive president over the past seventy-plus years regardless of their political affiliation.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
We are walking a dangerous path right now.
Having allowed the government to expand and exceed our reach, we find ourselves on the losing end of a tug-of-war over control of our country and our lives. And for as long as we let them, government officials will continue to trample on our rights, always justifying their actions as being for the good of the people.
Yet the government can only go as far as “we the people” allow. Therein lies the problem.
The pickle we find ourselves in speaks volumes about the nature of the government beast we have been saddled with and how it views the rights and sovereignty of “we the people.”
Now you don’t hear a lot about sovereignty anymore. Sovereignty is a dusty, antiquated term that harkens back to an age when kings and emperors ruled with absolute power over a populace that had no rights. Americans turned the idea of sovereignty on its head when they declared their independence from Great Britain and rejected the absolute authority of King George III. In doing so, Americans claimed for themselves the right to self-government and established themselves as the ultimate authority and power.
In other words, in America, “we the people”— sovereign citizens—call the shots.
So when the government acts, it is supposed to do so at our bidding and on our behalf, because we are the rulers.
That’s not exactly how it turned out, though, is it?
In the 200-plus years since we boldly embarked on this experiment in self-government, we have been steadily losing ground to the government’s brazen power grabs, foisted upon us in the so-called name of national security.
We have relinquished control over the most intimate aspects of our lives to government officials who, while they may occupy seats of authority, are neither wiser, smarter, more in tune with our needs, more knowledgeable about our problems, nor more aware of what is really in our best interests.
The government has knocked us off our rightful throne. It has usurped our rightful authority. It has staged the ultimate coup. Its agents no longer even pretend that they answer to “we the people.”
Worst of all, “we the people” have become desensitized to this constant undermining of our freedoms.
How do we reconcile the Founders’ vision of the government as an entity whose only purpose is to serve the people with the police state’s insistence that the government is the supreme authority, that its power trumps that of the people themselves, and that it may exercise that power in any way it sees fit (that includes government agents crashing through doors, mass arrests, ethnic cleansing, racial profiling, indefinite detentions without due process, and internment camps)?
They cannot be reconciled. They are polar opposites.
We are fast approaching a moment of reckoning where we will be forced to choose between the vision of what America was intended to be (a model for self-governance where power is vested in the people) and the reality of what it has become (a police state where power is vested in the government).
We are repeating the mistakes of history—namely, allowing a totalitarian state to reign over us.
Former concentration camp inmate Hannah Arendt warned against this when she wrote:
“No matter what the specifically national tradition or the particular spiritual source of its ideology, totalitarian government always transformed classes into masses, supplanted the party system, not by one-party dictatorships, but by mass movement, shifted the center of power from the army to the police, and established a foreign policy openly directed toward world domination.”
So where does that leave us?
Aldous Huxley predicted that eventually the government would find a way of “making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.”
The answer? Get un-brainwashed, as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries,
Stop allowing yourself to be distracted and diverted.
Learn your rights.
Stand up for the founding principles.
Make your voice and your vote count for more than just political posturing.
Never cease to vociferously protest the erosion of your freedoms at the local and national level.
Most of all, do these things today.
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Senator Says Dems Using Illegals To Create Extra Congressional Districts & Inflate Blue State Electoral Votes
GOP Tennessee Senator Bill Hagerty joined Fox News host Maria Bartiromo this week to warn the American people about Democrats using illegal immigration to gain more political power by giving blue states more electoral votes.
Hagerty was discussing legislation he recently proposed to address the issue that was defeated in the Senate after every Democrat voted against the bill last week.
The proposed bill would have simply excluded illegal immigrants from being counted in the U.S. Census since it’s used to tally the number of House seats each state receives and how many Electoral College votes they get in presidential elections.
Bill Hagerty:
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) March 11, 2024
“Democrats want these illegal migrants in here to create more electoral power. Since Joe Biden came into office, the estimates are as high as 10 million people that have come in here — that would be 13 extra congressional districts.” pic.twitter.com/WQsHO5rraS
The move would favor Democrats as migrants typically vote for the party that welcomed them into the country and provided them millions of dollars in government handouts.
Also, sanctuary cities in blue states filling up with illegals would inflate their House seats and Electoral votes.
“I think this proves the motive of the crime at our border,” Hagerty told Bartiromo. “They want these illegal migrants in here to create more electoral power for them in their blue states. They’re basically creating sanctuary cities to be a magnet so these people will disproportionately flow to these blue states. They’re shipping them there as rapidly as they can.”
He continued, “Since Joe Biden came into office, the estimates are as high as ten million people that have come in here. That would be thirteen extra congressional districts if you allocated them the right way. This is a tremendous amount of power that the Democrats are bringing in. They’re giving their voters, the blue state voters, disproportionately more power than they are giving my voters in Tennessee.”
X owner Elon Musk commented on the segment, writing, “More Presidential and House of Representatives electoral votes will be assigned to the new illegals Biden has let in than the population of 40 US states. Let that sink in.”
More Presidential and House of Representatives electoral votes will be assigned to the new illegals Biden has let in than the population of 40 US states.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 11, 2024
Let that sink in. https://t.co/V8MhMFOzNS
Musk had previously brought up the topic, writing, “Since illegals are mostly in Democrat states, both the House and the Presidential vote are shifted ~5% to the left, which is enough to change the entire balance of power! This is a major reason why the Biden administration is ushering in record levels of illegals and doing so few deportations.”
Most Americans do not know that the US census currently counts, for purposes of voting power, all people in a district, regardless of citizenship!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 9, 2024
Senate Democrats just voted unanimously to defeat an amendment that would have stopped counting illegals for congressional seat… https://t.co/5gXt4Z1wzP
“This should be a crime,” wrote GOP Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
This should be a crime. https://t.co/p8i1WOnBmR
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) March 12, 2024
Well, it is already a crime to allow and facilitate the hordes of illegals entering the country so the laws are on the books if law enforcement would take action.