I went to bed in the USA and seem to have woken up in Belarus, where social media was manipulated/shut down this summer to control grassroots reactions to poor election practices.

The only difference is that the politicians aren't doing the skulduggery here, it's the Kool-aid-drinking 'woke', and those frightened of same, who are doing it.

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One could only hope.

The link was down for about a day, but is up again with an update worth reading:

https://nyegop.org/2021/01/08/...AhErg&v=7516fd43adaa

I have read the letter and the update. Yes, it was written for a local audience and not intended to go "viral".

The letter is written by Chris Zimmerman, Chairman of the Nye County Republican Central Committee. The letter is patriotic and hopeful. There's nothing wrong with standing up against the stolen election.

It begins with this:

Original letter follows:

"As I write to you today, I have no doubt that this letter will find many of you crushed under the weight of despair or perhaps lost in a maze of confusion. It is my hope that by the time you finish reading this letter you will be able to confidently join millions of others who support the president and another four years.

Let me be clear: Trump will be president for another four years. Biden will not be president. Yes, I know those are shocking words in these crazy days."
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It goes on to outline many things we have discussed here on the forum and goes into speculation about what President Trump might do over the next 12 days (9 days now).

My only problem with the letter is that the author speaks with absolute certainty that Trump will be inaugurated on Jan 20th and lays out a series of unfolding events to come, as if he has knowledge of those events:

So, what comes next? I don’t have the particulars but I can give you milestones to watch for as the coming days unfold:

1. Expect the emergency broadcast system to be activated. The FCC just recently released a memorandum speaking to the requirements under Federal law to send messages from the president to the public. See this link
2. Expect confusion. We are in a battle for our republic against elites that are attempting the very coup that they are accusing Trump of doing. In battle, there will be disinformation but know that plans are being fulfilled.
3. Expect high profile arrests to take place over the next 12 days and at any time. You may wake one morning to find someone in high office is no longer there.
4. Expect this to be a bumpy ride to the very end. This is not a television show where things are resolved in 45 minutes.
5. Expect more bombshell evidence to be released between now and Jan. 20th.
6. Expect some sort of internet blackout or outage: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Gmail are likely going to be affected. If you don’t have alternate forms of communication established now, it would be a good idea to start forming them even if it’s just checking on your nextdoor neighbors.
7. Expect Trump to be inaugurated on Jan 20th!
8. Expect the executive order from 2018 and/or the Insurrection Act to be enacted. This DOES NOT mean martial law. Remember that we have been under a state of emergency since 2018 which gives the president many powers to act.

HOWEVER, as stated in the "update", or clarification:

"Nothing in the letter was original to me. I have no “inside” access to the administration so what was posted was simply a summary of things that are readily available for any willing to do the research which was then provided to the membership for their consideration... "

As much as I want President Trump to remain in office beyond Jan 20th, I don't think it does any good to give others false hope by claiming to know something that one does not know.

I do not know where all of this leads to or ends. The one thing I see is that there is a lot of panic from the side that claims they won. Why do you need a full court press of Trump and his movement if the entire movement leaves office in a little over a week? The amount of people being banned, cancelled, removed from social media, whatever you want to call it seems to me that something is afoot. It may just be a case of lack of patience, but I doubt it.

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I do not know where all of this leads to or ends. The one thing I see is that there is a lot of panic from the side that claims they won. Why do you need a full court press of Trump and his movement if the entire movement leaves office in a little over a week? The amount of people being banned, cancelled, removed from social media, whatever you want to call it seems to me that something is afoot. It may just be a case of lack of patience, but I doubt it.

This is their way of punishing us for supporting Trump. More than 1 made comments to the effect that they wanted to punish Trump supporters. You are seeing this now.

The panic is because if President Trump is not impeached (and found guilty) or removed by the 25th Amendment, he would be eligible to run again in 2024, and might win. That is unacceptable to the Leftists. They want him gone for good.

They are also afraid that if these investigations continue that all their dirty laundry will be revealed and publicized, and IMO there is a great amount of dirty laundry--enough to put some of them away for Sedition or other crimes.

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Originally posted by creedbratton2:
I do not know where all of this leads to or ends. The one thing I see is that there is a lot of panic from the side that claims they won. Why do you need a full court press of Trump and his movement if the entire movement leaves office in a little over a week? The amount of people being banned, cancelled, removed from social media, whatever you want to call it seems to me that something is afoot. It may just be a case of lack of patience, but I doubt it.

This is their way of punishing us for supporting Trump. More than 1 made comments to the effect that they wanted to punish Trump supporters. You are seeing this now.

This is the beginning, the communists are going after the low-hanging fruit, the easy things.

Just wait until your internet provider decides that Sig Forum is a subversive web site and denies you access.

Someone clue me in as to why POTUS would pardon Assange and Snowden?
IIRC Snowden stole and released classified info...and Assange just runs the website that dumps info he didn’t actually steal any of it.....or do I have that wrong?

All of this Q nonsense is just that, nonsense. I want Trump back in office as much as anyone else but he's not going to round up the bad guys, drop some evidence bombshells and they just let him waltz right back into the Whitehouse. Its not happening and I don't think the dems are afraid of Trump releasing classified info. No matter how many crimes were committed, who's gonna prosecute them? That's right, no one. That's where we are with the justice system now.

dynorat: Of course it was released. It is a “transgender woman” who went to protest President Trump and has been to several blm protests and supports blm. Checks all the appropriate boxes.
The whole family apparently suffers from TDS.

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Balzé Halzé

Wow, that one really hits hard.

This video is worth the watch.

I doubt they will get this message.

Twitter shares dive 7% after Trump account suspension

(Reuters) - Shares of Twitter Inc ( TWTR ) slumped 7% on Monday, on course to knock off about $2.5 billion from the market value of the social media company after it permanently suspended the account of U.S. President Donald Trump.

The slide came as some Republicans hit out over the weekend at the platform for gagging one of its most watched participants, with traders also pointing to signs that the affair was further fueling calls for greater regulation of Big Tech.

Trump's account had more than 88 million followers and had been retweeted billions of times.

"Trump has a very high and loyal following and a lot of those eyeballs will go away if Trump is permanently restricted from posting," said Andrea Cicione, head of strategy at brokerage TS Lombard.

Other social media platforms, including Facebook Inc, have been quick to issue similar bans on the outgoing president last week after the violence at Capitol Hill.

But the fall in Twitter's shares in premarket trading was much heavier than for any of its peers.

U.S. media also reported San Francisco police were bracing for a possible protest by pro-Trump supporters outside Twitter's headquarters on Monday. (https://bit.ly/35qDDfG)

Twitter said on Friday Trump's suspension was due to the risk of further violence, following the storming of the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday.

It was the first time the company had banned a head of state and was accompanied by the suspension of accounts belonging to vitriolic Trump fans.

European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton said the events at the Capitol were likely to herald an era of tougher social media regulation, comparing it to the global crackdown on terrorism after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

"The fact that a CEO can pull the plug on POTUS's loudspeaker without any checks and balances is perplexing," he wrote in a column for Politico.

"It is not only confirmation of the power of these platforms, but it also displays deep weaknesses in the way our society is organized in the digital space."

Twitter, Facebook and Google have faced a surge in the cost of moderating content on their platforms in recent years, so far countered by rises in the revenue they get from advertising and other services.

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has been quoted as criticizing the "overwhelming arrogance" of the sector's leaders and analysts expect more legal moves to counter the power of Facebook and others over the next four years.

"Incremental moderation may be welcome, but it's not cheap and could benefit Facebook, which already employs a moderation army (around six times) larger than Twitter's workforce," Bernstein analysts wrote in a note.

https://www.fidelity.com/news/...ED_KBN29G0XG-OUSBS_1

Let‘s see what’s more important to them, their money or their agenda

House Democrats introduce articles of impeachment, charging Trump with 'incitement of insurrection'

https://justthenews.com/govern..._campaign=newsletter



House Democrats on Monday morning formally introduced an article of impeachment against President Trump, charging him with "incitement of insurrection" for the speech he gave prior to the Capitol building breach last week.

The lower chamber could vote later this week on impeaching the president for an unprecedented second time.

Also on Monday, a House resolution calling on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke constitutional authority to remove Trump from office was blocked Monday by Republicans, according to the Associated Press.

The article reads that Trump "willfully made statements that, in context, encouraged – and foreseeably resulted in – lawless action at the Capitol."

"Members of the crowd he had addressed, in an attempt to, among other objectives, interfere with the Joint Session's solemn constitutional duty to certify the results of the 2020 Presidential election, unlawfully breached and vandalized the Capitol, injured and killed law enforcement personnel, menaced Members of Congress, the Vice President, and Congressional personnel, and engaged in other violent, deadly, destructive, and seditious acts," also reads the impeachment article.

After banks and corporations pledged over a BILLION in support of BLM and "related causes", they are apparently shutting their coffers since the Capitol incident.

Wall Street Banks Freeze Political Donations After Capitol Hill Riots, Threaten Pro-Trump Politicians with Blacklisting
https://www.breitbart.com/econ...ll-street-blacklist/

I think these tech companies will be well compensated for their fascist behavior.

So when harris said on jimmy fallons show that the rioting and destruction would continue, and must continue this summer, is that not the samething ? She was a US senator at the time she said that, encouraging rioting, burning, killing, injuring fellow Americans. Trump never even came close to saying that.

They put up fencing around Twitter headquarters in San Francisco as they were expecting Pro-Trump protesters, according to NewsmaxTV.

I think Twitter thinks too highly of themselves.
Yes, they banned President Trump.
Guessing most conservatives expected this and could care less about Twitter.
Conservatives are banning Twitter by deleting their accounts.

If any “protesters” show up, guaranteed they will have ties to BLM/Antifa.

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Also on Monday, a House resolution calling on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke constitutional authority to remove Trump from office was blocked Monday by Republicans, according to the Associated Press.

I'm surprised they found their balls long enough to do this. Maybe some are beginning to realize that after Trump, they are next.