Robert Reich: Arrest Elon Musk
Robert Reich, the former US Secretary of Labor, has suggested world governments should consider arresting Elon Musk because of the way he runs Twitter/X and his support of Donald Trump.
“Elon Musk is rapidly transforming his enormous wealth—he’s the richest person in the world— into a huge source of unaccountable political power that’s now backing Trump and other authoritarians around the world,” Reich wrote in an opinion piece for The Guardian on Friday.
Reich claims that Musk has become an open threat to democracy since acquiring Twitter/X and announcing his endorsement of Donald Trump for president.
“According to a new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, Musk himself has posted 50 false election claims on X so far this year. They’ve got a total of 1.2bn views. None of them had a ‘community note’ from X’s supposed fact-checking system,” Reich explained.
“Evidence is mounting that Russia and other foreign agents are using X to disrupt this year’s presidential race, presumably in favor of Trump. Musk has done little to stop them.
“Meanwhile, Musk is supporting rightwing causes around the world.”
Reich suggest that one way for governments to rein Musk in would be to “threaten [him] with arrest if he doesn’t stop disseminating lies and hate on X.”
Reich notes with approval the arrest of Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, in France a week ago.
In addition, Reich suggests that consumers should boycott Tesla; advertisers should boycott Twitter/X; the Federal Trade Commission should force Musk to “take down lies that are likely to endanger individuals” and sue him if he doesn’t; the US government should cancel its contracts with Musk’s companies including SpaceX; and “make sure Musk’s favourite candidate for president is not elected.”
As well as endorsing Donald Trump, Elon Musk has used his social-media platform to advocate for freedom of speech worldwide and to fight back against censorship.
In response to Friday’s banning of Twitter/X in Brazil, Musk warned that “censorship is a certainty” if the Democrats win the upcoming US presidential election.
Musk also described the Brazilian judge who instituted the ban, Judge Alexandre de Moraes, as “an evil dictator cosplaying as a judge.”
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Nancy Pelosi gave the game away on Friday when she admitted that she wants to grant tens of millions of illegal aliens citizenship and offer them free housing….all at the taxpayers expense of course. The […]
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“Your Words Are Hollow and Empty”: Gold Star Families Slam Kamala Harris in Series of Videos
The families of multiple Gold Star servicemen and -women have released videos directly addressing Vice President Kamala Harris after her criticism of Trump’s visit to Arlington National Cemetery.
One of them is Herman Lopez, father of corporal Hunter Lopez, who was killed while serving in 2021.
“You indicated in your post that you support the military and military families,” Mr Lopez said in his video, posted to Twitter.
“I for one have not seen that support. It’s been three years since my son was killed in action, and myself, my family and other Gold Star families have not seen any support from you or your administration.
“You may make all the promises about the economy or anything else you would like to make promises about, but the one thing I ask of you, and the reason I’m making this message, is for you to stop making comments about your support for the military. As a Gold Star father I know that you have not supported us, that you have not supported other Gold Star families.
Mr Lopez added, “Your words are hollow and empty.”
On Saturday, the Vice President issued a statement condemning Donald Trump for filming a video during a visit to Arlington National Cemetery, last Monday.
“As Vice President, I have had the privilege of visiting Arlington National Cemetery several times. It is a solemn place; a place where we come together to honor American heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service of this nation,” Harris Tweeted.
“It is not a place for politics.
“And yet, as was reported this week, Donald Trump’s team chose to film a video there, resulting in an altercation with cemetery staff. Let me be clear: the former president disrespected sacred ground, all for the sake of a political stunt.”
Harris went on to describe Trump as a “man who is unable to comprehend anything other than service to himself.”
She added, “it is my belief that someone who cannot meet this simple, sacred duty should never again stand behind the seal of the President of the United States of America.”
According to the US Army, a Trump staffer “abruptly pushed aside” a cemetery employee who was trying to explain the rules against filming in the cemetery.
The Trump campaign has denied this version of events and says it received permission from the families of the fallen soldiers in attendance.
At a rally in Michigan on Thursday, Trump said he had been asked by the families for photographs.
“I go there, they ask me to have a picture and they say I was campaigning,” Trump said.
“The one thing I get plenty of is publicity. I don’t need that. I don’t need the publicity.”
Trump’s running-mate, JD Vance, also slammed the Biden administration over the controversy, saying Kamala Harris “can go to hell.”
“Three years ago, 13 brave, innocent Americans died, and they died because Kamala Harris refused to do her job,” Vance said in response to questions from CBS News.
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Kamala Polling Far Lower than Hillary and Biden Were in August 2016 and 2020
Analysis from Real Clear Polling shows that Kamala Harris is in a significantly worse position relative to Donald Trump than Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden were in the 2016 and 2020 campaigns.
Polling averages show that in August 2016, Hillary Clinton had a 4.6 point advantage over Trump, which is more than double Kamala Harris’s 1.8 point lead at present.
Joe Biden had an even larger lead in August 2020: 6.3 points, which is well over three times Kamala’s current lead.
As we know, Trump beat Hillary in 2016, and even in the official certified result for 2020 Trump came within thousands of votes of Biden in key swing states.
Surveys of key demographics also suggest big problems for Harris.
A poll from the LIBRE Institute, published at the beginning of August, shows that Latinos are pessimistic about the direction of the country. 72% of those surveyed said they felt the country was heading in the wrong direction, with 59% disapproving of the job Joe Biden is doing as president, a 12% increase since last year’s LIBRE poll of Hispanic voters. Independent Hispanics had a particularly unfavourable view of Biden.
Just under 50% of Hispanics said they think they’re worse off than they were four years ago. 76% said they thought the economy was in a “fair” or “poor” state. Forty-two percent expected the economy to get worse and 85% said inflation was negatively affecting their lives.
Nearly three-quarters said they still believed in the American Dream, but 88% said it was harder then ever to achieve.
On immigration, 86% said the current system is broken, and 73% said that the southern border needs to be secured.
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Must-Watch Saturday Broadcast: Alex Jones Interviews ChatGPT as Brazilian Tyrants Demand Total Censorship From US Tech Companies
On this emergency Saturday transmission, Alex Jones breaks down the war against free speech as Brazilian justice Alexandre de Moraes demands X be shut down across the country for refusing to bow to his censorship demands. Tune in and share this important link!
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Confidential Pfizer FOIA Documents Admit mRNA Vaccines Are ‘US Weapons System’
Bombshell Pfizer documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests have revealed the Big Pharma giant sought to suppress the release of damaging information about vaccine side-effects for 75 years because the releasing the […]
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