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Mark Levin wants you to take a stand against tyranny and vote for the re-election of President Donald Trump. The 2020 election will determine the course of our republic. Be the Paul Reveres and Thomas Paines of the modern era and encourage friends, family members, and colleagues to vote. In this episode, travel back in time as Mark explores the history of our republic, the philosophy of the founding fathers, and how the progressives of the early 20th century have led us to where we are today.
"[Wednesday's] hearings on the oligopoly that big technology has become, revealed the bias that tech CEO’s have for dissenting political opinions. When questioned by Senators, Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey admitted that calls for violence from the Ayatollah were not against Twitter’s terms of service but the NY Posts reporting on Hunter Biden was. Dorsey also said the NY Post was able to tweet from their account, this statement is not supported by fact." ~ MLS, 10/28/20
After watching these BigTech moguls testify Wednesday before the Senate Commerce Committee in a hearing on social media censorship and Section 230 privileges, a few things occurred: It wasn't just the witnessing of their emboldened denial of any wrong doing in the censorship of free speech by 'moderators' and 'fact checkers' employed across their public platforms that rubs wrong. It's even more apparent that these so-called 'leaders' of Silicon Valley, aside from their enormous wealth, are near emotionless, narcissistic elitists who seemingly elevate themselves above our common liberties to skirt our common free speech ideals.
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas slammed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for his company’s censorship of the New York Post and the bombshell Hunter Biden story published two weeks ago.
“Mr. Dorsey, who the hell elected you and put you in charge of what the media are allowed to report and what the American people are allowed to hear?” Cruz asked. “Why do you persist in behaving as a Democratic super PAC, silencing views to the contrary of your political views?”
Here is the full back and forth between @tedcruz and @jack.
Later, Dorsey straight-up LIED to Sen. Blackburn about censoring President Trump's tweets!
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey lied to Congress on Tuesday during a Senate hearing focused on Big Tech’s content moderation policies when he claimed that his social media company has never censored President Donald Trump.
“Just to be clear, we have not censored the president,” Dorsey said in response to Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. “We have not taken the tweets down that you’re referencing. We have added context with a label and we do the same for leaders around the world.”
FYI, a new study clearly shows that Twitter has censored the president 64 times, "labeling, fact-checking, and removing Trump’s tweets and the tweets from his campaign accounts," while leaving Biden untouched, and is "far and away the biggest offender" out of all the social media platforms.
Both Dorsey and Zuckerberg also had to admit that this liberal media misdirection of "Russian disinformation" is bogus as well...
Both Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg testified today before the Senate that they had no reason to believe that Hunter Biden's laptop, source of multiple New York Post stories that were censored on their platforms, stemmed from a Russian disinformation plot.
During the hearings on Wednesday, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) dug into the reasoning behind Twitter and Facebook's suppression of the New York Post's reporting on alleged influence peddling by Hunter Biden. Wicker asked them to clarify comments made to Sen. Johnson, asking if it was correct to say that they had "no information indicating that the New York Post story has a Russian source."
It was alleged after the fact, by many media outlets, that the laptop the Post obtained from a repair shop in Delaware, where it was left by Hunter Biden for repair and then abandoned, was part of a Russian disinformation plot. Stories stating that the laptop and the allegations were derived from Russian sources intent on destroying the American democratic process did not appear to be suppressed or censored by social media platforms.
The New York Post is still locked out of its Twitter account, pending their deletion of six tweet containing links to the stories they published on the Bidens. Dorsey said this morning, before the Senate, that the Post could delete those posts and repost the exact same thing, and that second round of tweets would go through.
Unsurprisingly, by the end of the hearing, the Tech tyrants not only disbelieve they've allowed for wrong-doing throughout their companies, but they actually look at U.S. Senators and want the public at large to believe that they have no influence in American elections through their obvious censorship of conservatives, while bankrolling liberal causes and politicians...
Meanwhile, you had Dem bulbs between every GOP Senator requesting MORE CENSORSHIP! /facepalm
Democrats have finally gotten their wish with Big Tech censorship, so in today’s hearing Senator Ed Markey pushed even harder, accusing Big Tech of not censoring ENOUGH:
Sen. Ed Markey at tech hearing says: "The issue is not that the companies before us today is that they're taking too many posts down. The issue is that they're leaving too many dangerous posts up." https://t.co/4au67uIp3Ppic.twitter.com/HWRPRn2hHA
So what can be done to curtail these monopolies when they're clearly violating free speech and abusing their privileges granted? Many are looking towards Section 230...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order curtailing Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act on May 28, which directly challenged a law that protects tech giants like Twitter from being held liable for the content their users post and how they moderate it.
The law, passed in 1996, was designed to prevent internet companies from being treated as publishers and was done in part to allow the internet to flourish. ...
Section 230 protections also allow social media platforms to moderate their content by removing posts that violate the services’ own standards, so long as they are acting in “good faith.”
More than two decades later, critics of the law say it has been interpreted in the courts well beyond its original intent and has handed private tech companies the keys to the modern day version of the public square. Politicians on both sides of the aisle agree Big Tech has immense power that needs to be reigned in and regulated while some want to repeal Section 230 altogether. ...
While democrats and republicans alike agree that Big Tech needs more regulation, their reasons differ.
Yeah, one wants to allow the free-flow of ideas, while the other wants more clampdown to call 'fair'. I think I still prefer House GOP Leader McCarthy's simple answer to shut down BigTech's censorship (via Bongino)...
"I can't get over how genius this idea is! Congress, I hope you are taking notes."
There's that, and there's looking for alternatives. Bing, Parler, Rumble...everybody's still searching for Facebook alternatives. And then the ultimate option is to jump ship and live off-grid altogether. But before we get that drastic, perhaps we can find answers following the upcoming election, pending a positive outcome.
The Republican-held Senate on Monday evening voted to confirm Amy Coney Barrett as the newest justice to the Supreme Court, giving President Trump his third appointment to the high court just a week before the Nov. 3 election.
Barrett, 48, will be sworn in by Justice Clarence Thomas at the White House. She will be the fifth female justice in the court’s history. ...
Barrett, previously a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, is a favorite among religious conservatives and will be the seventh Catholic on the nine-person court.
All Republicans except Sen. Susan Collins of Maine voted in favor of Barrett and all Democrats opposed her in the 52-48 vote.
The Indiana resident is the first mother on the court with minor children. Her seven children — four girls and three boys — range from age 8 to 19. Two of her children were adopted from Haiti.
Barrett will begin hearing cases immediately, with the next scheduled oral arguments on Nov. 2.
The White House swearing-in ceremony was promptly held at 9pm Eastern, with Barrett being sworn in by the stalwart Justice Clarence Thomas!
...this appointment of Barrett is something many of us have been waiting on for a very long time. This is a huge moment in the our lives and the history of the Supreme Court, because her confirmation clinches a so-called conservative majority on the Supreme Court, a majority that will hopefully one day overturn Roe v Wade and abolish the ruling that has allowed for the legal murder of unborn babies for close to 50 years. That day can’t come soon enough.
I can’t end this post without recognizing the fact that it was President Trump who nominated Amy Coney Barrett and kept his promise from 2016 to nominate non-activist Supreme Court justices, and he has not disappointed. If Roe v Wade ever does get overturned and abortion law goes back to the states it will be the legacy of this president, Donald J. Trump. That day can’t come quick enough.
Until then, we celebrate Justice Amy Coney Barrett and President Trump for nominating her, as well as Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans for confirming her before the election.
AMEN! Simply historic.
ALMIGHTY God, who sittest in the throne judging right; We humbly beseech thee to bless the courts of justice and the magistrates in all this land; and give unto them the spirit of wisdom and understanding, that they may discern the truth and impartially administer the law in the fear of thee alone; through him who shall come to be our judge, thy Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen.
The final presidential debate was last night, and a calm, masterful Donald Trump switched gears on ol' doom-and-gloom Joe...
The moment Donald Trump and Joe Biden appeared on the stage, Trump was in control. He looked robust, while Biden appeared frail and slow. Trump's dominance extended beyond looks. He ably defended his record against attacks from both Biden and the moderator, Kristen Welker. He also politely, but insistently, pressed Biden on his decades of failure, the damage he caused to the black community, and his corrupt dealings with his son Hunter. It was a rout.
Those expecting Trump to be a bit of a madman, as he was during the first debate, were disappointed. Trump, having achieved his goal during the first debate of forcing Biden to alienate some of his base, no longer needed the madman tactic. This time, Trump was charming, polite, and endlessly upbeat about America's prospects. Biden, meanwhile, literally said America was "about to go into a dark winter. A dark winter."
Biden's message tonight at the debate was pretty simple: he'll lock down the entire country, raise taxes, and destroy the U.S. energy industry.
President Trump had several good moments in the final debate, but the standout moment is what became Biden's worst moment, "when Trump just drew out Joe Biden on energy, first on fracking, and then on the entire energy industry, setting him up and then ... letting him keep talking." And no matter how hard they try, Team Biden can’t UNDO that...
Biden’s worst moment last night came when Trump got him to admit that he wants to get rid of the oil industry. But Washington Post reporter Annie Linskey said Team Biden was trying to change his answer:
Biden's team seeks to clarify Biden's remarks on the oil industry, with @KBeds saying that Biden was referring to ending oil subsidies.
@Kbeds is Kate Beddington, and apparently she was trying to undo what Biden said. But Biden was very clear about it in his answer:
Video: Amazing stuff by President Trump getting Joe Biden to admit that he would end the oil industry and thus put almost ten million Americans out of work. #Debates2020pic.twitter.com/5wdLluThMF
— Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) October 23, 2020
Bongino also honed in on how that "Big Statement" might affect Democrat voters of both moderate and radical persuasions, from those employed in the energy industry to those who protest against it...
And Sen. Cruz wasn't the only one stunned that CNN actually fact-checked Joe Biden!
I don’t believe my eyes. @CNN actually fact-checked Biden’s stance on #fracking: "Trump is correct. Biden did make anti-fracking comments during the Democratic primary in 2020. Trump was not lying." pic.twitter.com/6F0JD53Qxe
There was some great commentary from the DailyWire fellas to wrap-up the evening. All in all, great debate to roll into the general...now VOTE like your life and liberties depend on it, because THEY DO!
Team Trump released a reel of five scathing moments in last night's debate when the President called out Joe Biden on his joint-policy manifesto, hitting American families with more taxes, erasing our energy independence and the jobs produced by the industry, while enriching himself and his family through foreign entities. The President also called into question Biden's disproportionate incarceration of black Americans throughout the 90's, juxtaposed against the positive accomplishments for the black community that he's been able to push through in the last 3-1/2 years. Then ending the countdown with one of the biggest difference between the two: Biden is another politician making empty promises, while Trump is not of the swamp and continues to fulfill his promises to everyday Americans...
Whether it's Charlie Kirk and others telling us months back, or Silicon Valley telling us themselves just a few days ago, BigTech is all-in for Joe Biden...
A super PAC bankrolled by Silicon Valley moguls is preparing a massive TV advertising campaign to help boost Democratic candidate Joe Biden against President Donald Trump in the final days before the 2020 US election.
The $100-plus million blitz includes at least $22 million from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, according to an exclusive report from Recode, a subdivision of Vox. Another Democratic megadonor involved is former Google and Alphabet CEO Eric Schmidt, currently advising the Pentagon on technology innovation.
And more of the tech bosses' shills are saying the quiet part out loud right now, as Bongino points to a former Twitter exec who's openly promoting the muting of a political opponent, in this case, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, in the middle of an election! Sounds like CCP or Pravda tactics, but these are American media moguls advocating for this brand of censorship...
"The Left is all-in on anti-civil liberties advocacy. They're all-in on speech suppression tyranny. And I just want to be absolutely crystal clear to you, so you understand the risk of what will happen if Joe Biden, God Forbid, wins this election, along with his media allies who are running with him (at this point, I think that's pretty clear, right?)."
Pulling the 'mute' debate into tonight's actual debate, Don Jr. spoke on monitoring the muters and moderators, the media bias and the BigTech censorship, repeating that they're all 'doing whatever they can' to help elect Joe Biden...
The Trump campaign is up against Big Tech giants and the mainstream media who are practically campaigning for Joe Biden, Donald Trump Jr. told "Fox & Friends."
Defending his father, the president's son said the only thing the former vice president has "built up was for his son," referring to Hunter Biden's international business dealings.
Pointing out the media's double standard after the FBI linked the purported Hunter Biden laptop to a money-laundering probe, Trump Jr. said, "the media that ran with the Russia, Russia nonsense for four years, even after it was disproven ... hoping and dreaming the Trump family did a fraction of what the Bidens were actually doing and is now verified, is disgusting."
He added that "social media is censoring it to make sure that people don't know that the potential president could be 100% compromised, that's absolutely disgusting."
Still awaiting clarification on that FCC Section 230, as well as the subpoenas for the social media bosses, but the common denominator between BigTech's censorship and suppression can almost assuredly be linked in dollar signs. As RCPasks and answers, "Why did Twitter and Facebook blackout news about Hunter Biden? The obvious answer is that those companies have a dog in the fight." And in a much broader context...
Biden, Burisma, Chinese banks, Twitter and Facebook are all faces of the Washington Swamp. Next week, the faces may be different, but the Swamp itself will be the same. The buyers and sellers who populate this fetid ecosystem have powerful reasons to sustain it. For some, that means taking payments from foreign oligarchs and then opening doors for them. For others, that means suppressing news about who opened the doors and why. That is exactly what Big Tech is doing now. They, like the politicians they are protecting, want to retain their power and line their pockets. In Washington, that’s the Circle of Life.
ADDENDUM: Wow, and this dropped right before last night's debate. Gonna censor that? Or just ignore it?
Tony Bobulinski held a presser to announce the evidence he’s about to turn over to the FBI and the Senate [Friday] regarding his business dealings with the Biden crime family:
More on the media suppression of the Biden scandal (from conservative AND liberal perspectives)...
And I love this guy for being brave enough to just tell it like it is (in comedic fashion, because of course they're jokes!)...
Advanced! Of course, not without the childish antics of the Democrats (to no avail)...
"We did it. We did it. Judge Barrett's going to the floor."
Sen. Lindsey Graham speaks after the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously voted to advance the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett. Democrats boycotted the vote. https://t.co/7Oge8WpTSSpic.twitter.com/czYzTUhz7R
I gotta think, even Democrats would want their elected officials to vote for the record, right? I mean, that's what they send them to D.C. for (or maybe not)...
Sen. Chuck Schumer on boycott of Barrett vote: "Democrats will not lend a single ounce of legitimacy to this awful, awful hearing. We are voting with our feet." https://t.co/prHbUCsogWpic.twitter.com/NNlt1XVrtZ
Oh, shut up, Schumer. Don't even know half of what he's saying... but neither do Dems' cosplaying constituents (all ten of them)...
"Women are not incubators! Women are not property!"
Demonstrators dressed in "Handmaid" robes protested outside the U.S. Capitol, blocking entrances as the Senate Judiciary Committee was set to vote on Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court. https://t.co/pfbsvS8sp5pic.twitter.com/nskZSJtPEw
MOST gracious God, we humbly beseech thee, as for the people of these United States in general, so especially for their Senate and Representatives in Congress assembled; that thou wouldest be pleased to direct and prosper all their consultations, to the advancement of thy glory, the good of thy Church, the safety, honour, and welfare of thy people; that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours, upon the best and surest foundations, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, may be establish among us for all generations. ...
ALMIGHTY God, who sittest in the throne judging right; We humbly beseech thee to bless the courts of justice and the magistrates in all this land; and give unto them the spirit of wisdom and understanding, that they may discern the truth and impartially administer the law in the fear of thee alone...
We have the power to determine our own fate and the fate of our nation by the simple act of voting.
Here's Mark's impassioned plea for voters to stand up and defend liberty at the ballot box. Americans of all stripes should reflect on this daily, throughout early voting and the lead up to election day. Do you choose liberty, or do you choose tyranny? There's really no excuses left in mixing up which one's which. In economics, in culture, in life, it's that clear cut...
For most of us, there are few if any opportunities to demonstrate our devotion to this great nation. Those among us who join the military or law enforcement, and protect us from foes foreign and domestic, are small in number. Yet, we have the power to determine our own fate and the fate of our nation by the simple act of voting. And in a precious few days, we, the people, will decide for ourselves, our progeny, and for the rest of time, if America will remain a vibrant and free constitutional republic, the likes of which the world has never known, or whether America will become just another nation in decline, going the way of Athens and Rome but in a shorter time. This election will decide, WE will decide, if we wish to live in freedom or tyranny, in sunlight or darkness, in prosperity or poverty. The choice could not be starker. And the choice is ours.
We must ask ourselves: what will our children and grandchildren think of us, how will history judge us, what would our ancestors say of us, if we so casually, and without duress, turn aside mankind’s greatest achievement and vote for a thousand years of decline, gloom, and doom. Each successive generation must commit to ensuring that the next generation lives free. We must reflect on the selflessness with which Americans have sacrificed and died, on battlefields throughout the world and in our own Revolutionary and Civil wars, so that we might appreciate what we have inherited — a country in which we live and flourish in a civil and open society.
As I explained in Liberty and Tyranny, too often liberty’s permeance makes its manifestations elusive or invisible to those born into it. Even if liberty is acknowledged, it is often taken for granted and it permanence assumed. Under these conditions, the Statist’s agenda, that is, the Democrat Party’s diabolical plans, can be alluring. It is not recognized as an increasingly corrosive threat to liberty but rather coexisting with it. But all liberty-loving citizens should know better and be alarmed by the ascent of tyranny not only in the Democrat Party but throughout the culture. Nor should we be confused or taken by the various nomenclatures designed by the Democrat Party to deceive us into believing that their movement is some kind of “people’s” movement — such as “democratic socialism.” Like all such movements, they ultimately rely on the iron fist to control the people not serve them.
As I previously noted, the Democrat Party’s presidential nominee, Joe Biden, who has perfected the politics of deceit and manipulation, veils his pursuits in moral indignation, intoning in high dudgeon the injustices and inequities of liberty and life itself, for which only he and his party can provide justice and bring a righteous resolution. And when the resolution proves elusive, as it has during his 47-year political career, he demands ever more authority to wring out the imperfections in mankind’s existence. Hence, his 110-page Marxist manifesto. Unconstrained by constitutional prohibitions, what is left but Biden’s own moral compass, which has already led him astray. He is never circumspect about his own shortcomings. Failure is not a product of his beliefs but merely want of power and resources. Thus are born endless rationalizations for seizing ever more governmental authority. Consequently, the Democrat Party’s intention to destroy the Supreme Court by packing it with kindred ideologues; the expansion of the U.S. Senate to create a super-majority, one-party Democrat rule; the elimination of the filibuster rule to crush any opposition to the Democrat Party’s law-making agenda; and, the elimination of the electoral college, in order to prevent millions of Americans outside the big cities and most populated states, from participating in the electoral and governing system, thereby ensuring Democrat Party dominance for decades. In short, the fundamental transformation of America from a constitutional Republic to a Democrat Party leviathan.
We must never accede to the terms of our economic and political surrender and servitude. We must never abandon our children and grandchildren to a dark and bleak future. We must never accept a fate that is alien to the legacy we’ve inherited from our ancestors. We must never accept social engineering by politicians and bureaucrats who treat us like lab rats, rather than self-sufficient human-beings. For those who choose tyranny over liberty and vote for Joe Biden and the Democrat Party, they do not speak for the tens of millions of us who revere the principles undergirding our society and appreciate the fruits of our economic system. Nor do they get to dictate the terms of our existence, as they contort the Constitution and the law to accommodate their political ends. We must not be compliant to their demands and designs. WE MUST VOTE, VOTE FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THE REPUBLICANS, AND RALLY OUR FAMILY, FRIENDS, CO-WORKERS, AND NEIGHBORS TO VOTE FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THE REPUBLICANS! And we must, like our forefathers who founded this magnificent country, become active in our own survival!
ADDENDUM: And looks like more are choosing liberty! The tide is turning, if we maintain momentum...
These everyday American men are destroying the leftist agenda that's been supported by the party of slavery and permeating throughout an irresponsible lib press for ages. Less than a month away from the election, and you damn right they need to be heard... NOW! Some of their words are raw and unpolished, but it's real, it's genuine, and it's thought-provoking.
Black men who are free and critical thinkers, that don't tow the Democratic Party line. Imagine that...
Democrats worst nightmare!
"After researching all of the facts from this video, it only made sense to vote for Donald Trump. Seriously, put all petty issues aside. Put all the fake twisted “facts” you hear on social media and do the research yourself." ~ B. Keuilian, entrepreneur
"This hardworking, no-nonsense, self-empowered, taught-by-dad, not-looking-for-trouble, trial-and-tribulation man is a blessing to many struggling Americans caught up in the struggle of 'should I do right?' or turn to darkness, hate, bitterness and violence. All he wants is an opportunity to work, not take the easy way out. In this struggle, he still can see who to clearly vote for in 2020. Out of the shadows of darkness, into working hard and staying in the light." ~ L. Pritchett, commenter
"I don’t know what he’s been reading or listening to, but this man is EXTREMELY bright. Simply put, he cuts to the chase about Trump, globalism, racism, xenophobia, and patriotism in less than five minutes. Brilliant." ~ D. Hodges, commenter
And when it comes to the President's agenda, which is reflected throughout these men's comments above, Paris Dennard polishes it up succinctly...
Promises made, promises kept. Signed and continuing to delivery. Truly, this Republican President is reopening the chapter on Reconstruction that was never realized or fulfilled as Lincoln envisioned, and further paving the way to WIN the other Johnson's age old 'War on Poverty' once and for all, with achievement over and beyond welfarism... neither of which Democrats ever meant to accomplish.
Ever wondered what flagrant CENSORSHIP and open ELECTION INTERFERENCE by BigTech monopolies might look like? 1984, right? Well, look no further...
Of the Top 10 newspapers in America, NYPost is #4, snuggled right between NYTimes (#3) and LATimes (#5). The newspaper founded by Alexander Hamilton! There's no getting around what this is, folks...
"Social media companies have a First Amendment right to free speech. But they do NOT have First Amendment right to a special immunity denied to other media outlets, such as newspapers and broadcasters."
I intend to move forward with an @FCC rulemaking to clarify the meaning of #Section230.
"Let those who are fond of blaming and finding fault, while they sit safely at home, ask, 'Why did you not do thus and so?'" ~ Christopher Columbus
To use Moynihan's line that Pence so elequantly borrowed last week, "You are entitled to your opinion; but you are not entitled to your own facts." Such is fitting in today's modern flippant attitudes toward the explorer who sailed the ocean blue in 1492, stumbling upon the Americas, which hadn't been seen by Europeans since the early Vikings, and whose historic journey marked the beginning of transatlantic colonization, advancing civilization over the coming centuries. This is why we not only celebrate Columbus Day, but also why we defend it...
On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas and changed the course of world history forever. In honor of this historic event, Columbus Day is observed in the United States, Latin America, Spain, and Italy. In more recent years, however, there's been increasing opposition to Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples' Day. According to the left's narrative, the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World marked the beginning of one of the largest genocides in human history. But was it really?
It's true that many American Indians died after the Europeans discovered the Americas. However, the vast majority of the native population, some 75 to 95 percent, were killed by Old World diseases to which they had no immunity. While no less a tragedy, it does not constitute a genocide. A genocide requires a calculated, deliberate intent to exterminate a whole group of people. The Europeans were unaware that the natives didn't have immunity to Old World diseases, let alone how infectious diseases even worked. Germ theory was not fully developed and accepted until the latter half of the nineteenth century. It should also be noted that in the United States, at least, there was never a government policy for extermination. On the contrary, you don't set up reservations and inoculate the people you are trying to exterminate.
With the call to abolish Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples' Day, there is the implication that American Indians were and are more virtuous, deserving, and noble than their European counterparts. The left tends to romanticize American Indians while vilifying Europeans. It's true there were atrocities and injustices done to the American Indians, but that's only one side of the story. Guess what: nothing the Europeans did was at all different from what the natives themselves did. American Indians also conquered other native peoples for their land and to acquire slaves. Slavery was widely practiced in pre-Columbian America, just as it was practiced everywhere at the time. According to the Standard Cross-Cultural Files, at least thirty-nine pre-Columbian societies in North America alone practiced slavery, and it was not at all different from the slavery practiced elsewhere. Indian slave masters had complete control over their slaves, even to kill them if they desired. It's a little known fact that in the nineteenth century, American Indians began to acquire black slaves. In fact, the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole Indians took a number of black slaves with them as they were forcibly relocated to Oklahoma "Indian" Territory. In short, American Indians had the same sins and vices as the Europeans, and even some they didn't have.
When Columbus discovered the Americas, he encountered friendly natives, but he also encountered hostile natives. Upon his second trip to the Americas, he encountered the Caribs, from which the word "Caribbean" is derived. According to historian Samuel Eliot Morison, Columbus's search parties on Guadeloupe found a disturbing sight: "They found large cuts and joints of human flesh ... caponized Arawak boy captives who were being fattened for the griddle, and girl captives who were mainly used to produce babies, which the Caribs regarded as a particularly toothsome morsel." The French explorer Florentine Giovanni da Verrazzano is said to have been eaten on the beaches of Guadeloupe by Caribs while his companions looked on from their ship in horror.
This is not to say that all American Indians were bloodthirsty man-eaters. Just as in any society, there are good and bad people. It's in no way intended to vilify all American Indians — only to highlight the left's one-sided argument against Columbus and Europeans in general. Leftists conveniently ignore atrocities when committed by American Indians. You will never hear them condemn genocides committed by the Aztecs or the barbaric practices of the Incas and Mayans. These facts do not fit their narrative and must be disregarded.
You will also not hear about attacks upon white settlers. During Pontiac's War, for instance, Indian warriors entered a schoolhouse, killed the schoolmaster, and then tomahawked and scalped eight children. Contrary to popular belief, Europeans did not teach scalping to the American Indians. Archeological evidence indicates that scalping already existed in pre-Columbian America.
Ultimately, the attack on Columbus Day is an attack on Western civilization itself. But whether anyone likes it or not, Columbus discovered America and it changed history irrevocably. Ignoring the past will not change events, nor does it make it any less historic. If Columbus had not discovered America, or rediscovered, if you prefer, it's naïve to believe it would have remained sealed off from the rest of the world forever. If it were not for Columbus or some other European, it would have been somebody else, possibly the Chinese. Regardless, no matter who discovered the Americas, the outcome would have remained the same. American Indians still would have died by the scores from diseases they had no immunity to, there still would have been a clash of civilizations, and they still would have lost. It's an unfortunate but predictable outcome. When a technologically advanced civilization comes into contact with a primitive stone-aged civilization, it never fares well for the latter.
Facts, not opinion. So let's join our President in the present and celebrate the Italian explorer and the magnificent land grown from that historic discovery...
Happy Columbus Day. There, I said it. And I mean it. I don’t wish you a solemn Columbus Day, nor a mournful one, nor still a guilty one. No, I wish you a happy Columbus Day.
It’s a day to celebrate the contributions of Italian Americans to our nation’s history. That was the original intent behind the holiday, after all, to elevate Italians at a time when they still faced marked bigotry. But more than that, it’s a day to celebrate a man whose example of courage and determination we need, as they say, now more than ever. ...
Columbus Day is a time to remember that that which seems impossible rarely is. It is a day to feel inspired, to know that we shape the future. So go to an Italian restaurant Monday night (at 25 percent capacity, of course) and raise a glass or two of Chianti to Columbus and the crews who served him. Wonder at the bravery of those men and ask yourself what challenges you can face with strength and purpose.
Don’t allow the naysayers who line their pockets with the outrage of the guilt steal from you the history that belongs to all of us; don’t fear their sneers or snide remarks. Christopher Columbus endured plenty of those in his own day, but rather than cower beneath the criticisms of those who were supposedly his betters, he trusted in himself, in God and in the limitless possibilities of human exploration. Monday is his day but also ours. Let’s hold it in our hearts.
ADDENDUM: Speaking of sailing the ocean blue...the day after Columbus Day is another seaward celebration!
Dan Bongino lays out Pence's total, complete evisceration of Kamala Harris and the Democrats last night...
Terrence Williams had fun with it, which happened to be my first impression too, HA!
Tucker Carlson highlighted the Dems same old use of identity politics, and how they'll keep pushing it forward to tear down our system of government for their one-party rule...
And Glenn Beck discussed how the VP debate gave us a crystal clear choice between the two campaigns, having nothing but accolades for the way Pence kept bringing it back to Americans' #1 concern: The Economy!
With tweets of "OBAMA KNEW EVERYTHING" abound, it seems fitting to use Bongino's daily line of quoting the date, followed by "and Barack Obama was the most corrupt President in US history." That reached an emphatic DEFINITELY this week, right alongside Hillary Clinton and the current Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden.
These latest revelations were oddly left out of this week's VP debate, but thankfully our esteemed Vice President Mike Pence, who CRUSHED IT by the way, mentioned them to the audience. Unbelievably unreliable media...so let's stroll through this shall we.
First the co-conspirators...
Think of it: Comey and McCabe insisted on including a dossier, whose contents came 100% from a source they'd investigated as a suspected Russian agent, in a U.S. intelligence assessment on Russia. They deliberately tainted US intel on Russia with Russian disinformation
Think of it: The FBI relied on information from a suspected Russian spy to spy on a US presidential adviser & never told the spy court its source was a suspected Russian spy, even though the FBI had sought the same spy warrant on that Russian spy himself just a few years earlier
I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal. No redactions! https://t.co/GgnHh9GOiq
All Russia Hoax Scandal information was Declassified by me long ago. Unfortunately for our Country, people have acted very slowly, especially since it is perhaps the biggest political crime in the history of our Country. Act!!!
So I had to constantly fight off all of this Scum, achieve more than any other President in First Term, and then they talk Chaos. They created crimes against me and this administration! https://t.co/jlITzFMH2E
Yeah, yeah... I know that Hillary Clinton planned, financed, & executed the Russia hoax to try to destroy the President we elected & Obama knew everything...
....but, the media says we should care more about President Trump taking off his mask..on a balcony...at his home
If you’re more worried about @realDonaldTrump unmasking on a balcony with no one close to him than you were by the Obama/Biden administration unmasking (aka illegally spying on) their political opponents, my diagnosis is you have TDS, & my prescription is to put down your phone.
And now one of the main guys of the Clinton/Obama/Biden cabal, who's been on Capitol Hill the longest, thinks you should elect him as the next president?!
The Obama/Biden Administration knew it was hoax.
They knew the Trump Campaign didn’t collude with Russia.
Obama, Biden, Crooked Hillary and many others got caught in a Treasonous Act of Spying and Government Overthrow, a Criminal Act. How is Biden now allowed to run for President?
So now we know. Hillary was behind it. Obama gave the order. The only question now is what our side will do with this information. Will we merely talk about it or will someone bring out the indictments and the handcuffs? #ObamaGate
When the truth about #Obamagate is revealed, every scandal in American history will look mild in comparison.
— Buzz Patterson for Congress (CA-7) (@BuzzPatterson) October 7, 2020
Where are all of the arrests? Can you imagine if the roles were reversed? Long term sentences would have started two years ago. Shameful! https://t.co/w2s8LdiRu0
