Steve Hilton: Beware the populism of the left (video)

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Communism, Conservative populism, employment vs. unemployment, green new deal, Labor unions, left-wing populism, Oppression, Poverty, Serfdom, socialism, Tyranny

In between dozing off last night with the television on in the background  I caught tidbits of The Next Revolution with Steve Hilton which airs Sunday night’s on the Fox News channel.  One such block was Hilton’s discussion on “The Right kind of Populism” and the left’s.

Ford’s defense team expose to the world the corrupt totalitarian spirit and agenda of her advocates and supporters

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Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford, deep state, Democratic Party, Democratic Totalitarianism, hegemony, Oppression, Psychological Warfare and Terrorism, search and destroy, totalitarianism

Source: Wikimedia Commons

Civil Truth of Unifed Patriots published this essay prior to Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committtee which speaks to the true agenda and nature of Ford’s team and supporters.

Unifed Patriots by Civil Truth

As the men on the Ford defense team ramp up further their increasingly frantic protests and shrill complaints about the terms of engagement, through their rhetoric and demands, they expose ever more clearly the terrifying reality behind their behavior and the agenda of their supporters and mouthpieces: the totalitarian drive for absolute, unaccountable, and unopposable control over the lives, words, and actions of everybody else and the threat of personal destruction of any who dare to stand in their way or any who expresses the slight unapproved criticism or questioning of their authority or of the narrative and code of behavior and thought processes that they would impose on the world.

Not to mention a massive dose of doublethink and hypocrisy.

This is a movement that, on the one hand, claims to empower women to live full lives but that at the same time treats them as such untouchable fragile vessels, who will irreparably fall apart unless they can fully control their interactions with the world around them.

A world in which the object of their accusation is such a monster that they cannot abide even being in the same room with him 35 years after the alleged incident

A world in which their life and words and actions must not be exposed to the slightest question or hint of challenge, even while they craft the most odious charges against another person and demand that those with power immediately destroy that person’s life and reputation and honor and cast them out of society just on their word alone[…]

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Forum: Is There A Solution For Censorship Of Views On The Right By Social Media?

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banning Conservatives, First Amendment, Oppression, Progressives war on Conservatives, silencing dissent, social media censorship, war of free speech

Every Monday, the WoW! community and our invited guests weigh in at the Watcher’s Forum, short takes on a major issue of the day, the culture, or daily living. This week’s question: Is There A Solution for Censorship Of Views On The Right By Social Media?

The Razor: Yes my solution is to stop using them completely. I deleted my Facebook page years ago and don’t regret it. Twitter is moronic and masturbatory. All the others have limited utility.

If conservatives publicly left these platforms they would turn into boring echo chambers for the Left – and that’s pretty much what they are today.

So why even bother?

I’ve been playing around with technology since I was a kid. I once thought there wasn’t such a thing as too much technology, but then I tried buying a book on my Kindle and was told that I had already purchased it. Not only had I bought it, I had evidently read it – and I had almost no recall of it whatsoever. That’s when I switched back to buying books. I learned that we have reached a point where technology is like everything else: 95% of anything is crap. We now have to make some conscious choices how we use it, not just stare at our phones and walk blindly into traffic.

At heart I am still a technophile – but there are clear limits. I’ve learned that social media is neither: it’s anti-social and it’s not really media either.

I just got back from Costa Rica, a family vacation at an all-inclusive resort (not the way I usually travel).

The restaurants were filled with people taking pictures of their food and posting them on their FB pages or Instagram feeds.

People were also posting pictures of themselves on the beach or at the pool – likely to their friends and families back home with tags like “Wish you were here.”

It’s a form of bragging – some call it “humble-bragging” – and like all bragging ill mannered.

As a kid growing up in the 1970s I remember how painful it was sitting through the slide shows and 8mm movies taken by friends of the parents.

It was painful then – and it’s still painful now.

We need to stop living in an alternate reality where we are the center of the universe and we think people care what we ate on vacation.

They don’t and we need to stop thinking they do. What this superficial liking and thumbing-up or what-have-you is doing is superficializing our relationships. Instead of meeting our friends face to face and having them ask us about our vacation, we send them pics on Facebook which they “like” for politeness or in the hope that you will do the same to their vacation stills on their next vacation. It’s eroding our communication – and fundamentally our trust, the very foundations of our human relationships.

So there are better reasons to bail on the social media than left-wing bias. If we value our relationships it’s time we put down the damn phones and meet our friends for dinner, or visit the sister we haven’t seen in a few years. That physical interaction is priceless whereas what we have today with social media is about as worth as much as a million likes: absolutely nothing.

Rob Miller: I’ve never used social media for much more than building my traffic and always gave sites like Twitter and Facebook the bare minimum of info they required. I’ve never been the sort of person who wants my entire life online. Lately of course, those particular channels are far less effective, and I spent a bit of time messaging my followers on both channels advising them to directly follow my site, which many of them were doing anyway.

While I’ve discovered other channels and methods to boost traffic, the fact remains that there are very popular web portals that lean Left and promote those views while censoring views on the Right. Even Spotify linked up with the infamous Southern Policy Law Center to target artists with conservative views and vet content for political correctness, although they later reversed themselves, it seems, after serious backlash from subscribers.

Andrew Breitbart (Z”L) famously said that politics is downstream from the culture. As with many other things, he was completely right. While we can boycott platforms that censor views on the Right and who promote Leftist ones, that’s only half the battle. Like it or not social media is an important part of the culture, and one that can’t just be ignored in the battle of ideas. The real trick is to go on offense and beat the Left at their own game. That’s exactly how Breitbart,FOX News and talk radio carved out niches for themselves. There’s no reason the same thing can’t be done with social media, where victory means building better more interesting platforms where free speech is encouraged to compete. One site that is doing exactly that is Gab, a Twitter competitor that allows 140 characters and freedom of speech. They’re relatively new but growing by leaps and bounds as Twitter fades slowly but surely. There’s no reason the Right can’t create their own social media. Gab is doing it.

Dave Schuler: I suppose making assault or battery perpetrated against Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin misdemeanors punishable by a $5 fine is out of the question?

Not using Facebook, Google, etc. is the obvious answer but, sadly, it’s insufficient. It wouldn’t be effective. Starting their own Facebook, Google, etc. is another obvious but inadequate response.

The only thing I can come up with is to make their business model unworkable. “Personally identifiable information” means data that could be used to identify an individual. Make PII the property of the individual whom it’s about. Make it illegal for someone other than the PII’s owner to sell it without the explicit, personalized assent of the owner on a per-incident basis.

Laura Rambeau Lee: The Left considers any conservative viewpoint to be hate speech that must be silenced. They have managed to shut down discussion of any opposing views on our college and university campuses. Students become hysterical and protest anyone who attempts to speak about conservative beliefs and principles. Those working at companies such as Facebook have come out of this collegial environment and fervently believe in the right of free speech – unless they disagree with what the speaker has to say. Progressives have been working for decades within our education system indoctrinating our youth and it is not going to be easy to turn it around. They have all but destroyed our Western cultural traditions and beliefs. They mock family, faith and patriotism. Those of us who are students of history are seeing a repeat of what has happened over and over again, particularly in the last century, as this evil ideology takes hold in our own country. Is there even a possibility for a middle ground where we can work together? I would like to believe so, but the left seems to have taken hold of the Democratic Party and platform. It also appears to have infiltrated the Republican Party as there are very few true fiscal and social conservatives in the party. In addition the unelected bureaucratic elites in government are extremely progressive in their beliefs for the most part and are working towards a more socialist government and egalitarian society. The fact that a majority of our youth today believe socialism is a good thing should scare us all. We are on the verge of losing this battle to the left.

For one thing, we must get involved in our public education system and insist our school curriculum presents unbiased materials. We must insist on teaching civics and classes such as Americanism vs. Communism that many of us were taught in high school. Many public schools today teach American history only from the Civil War forward. We should be teaching our history from the very beginning of our founding, particularly the concepts outlined in the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution.

As far as social media, it will require a lot of pressure from conservatives to change their policies. There does seem to be a growing backlash against political correctness from more people every day as the left is more out in the open and outrageous in their hysteria (which I believe comes from fear of hearing the truth) against opposing viewpoints. We should not tolerate the bullying going on in the name of free speech and expose it when we see it. We must keep talking and writing and sharing our values and viewpoints so that others will hear and hopefully come to understand the dangers of the left as much as we do. We have to utilize these social media sites to our advantage as much and as best as we can. It is up to us to expose evil whenever and wherever we see it.

Well, there it is!

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Is it Time to be Like Ike and call in the Troops to Protect Citizens’ Right to Assemble?

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Arkansas, California, freedom of speech and expression, Little Rock Nine, nancy-pelosi, Oppression, Patriot's Prayer Rally

101st Airborne at Little Rock Central High School Source: Wikimedia

Unified Patriots by Vassarbushmills

A Patriot’s Prayer Rally has been scheduled for Aug 26 in a park near Golden Gate Bridge. (Jonathan Turley discusses the legal side.) Nancy Pelosi has called for the permits to be revoked, calling this a “white supremacist” rally, even though only 1 of the 5 lead organizers and speakers are white. What Nancy is really doing is sounding the dog whistle for West Coast Antifa mobs to descend on the park and Pabreak up the prayers, and a few heads. Of course, expect California police to stand by at a safe distance and watch since that’s all they’ve eve done at other California venues-for-violence.

In 1957 Ike called up the 101st Airborne and federalized National Guard to escort a little black girl into a school in Little Rock. In 1962 and 63, JFK federalized the Guard to insure James Meredith could enter the University of Mississippi and to move George Wallace away from the doors of the University of Alabama denying two other blacks entrance. Both Ike and JFK predicated their decisions on keeping the peace, protecting the innocent and preventing anarchy. Oh, James Meredith is a lifelong Republican. And those governors? All Democrats, direct descendants of the founding of the Democrat Party in 1824, to protect slavery as an institutional pillar of the party’s power, leading to an inevitable war.

Some say that this is what the Democrat’s are hoping to bury along with all those confederate statues of officer, that they were all Democrats.

Q: Should Donald Trump federalize troops in California? Will they oblige? Sounds good to me.

US Women’s Chess Champion Refuses to Submit to Iran and the Hijab

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acts of violence against women and girls, boycott, iran, Nazi Paikidze-Barnes, Oppression, persecution of women, Women’s World Chess Championship 2017

Today’s feminists no different than the feminists of yesterday are out of touch AND hypocrites.  They live in la la land with pink hats and make believe.  There is not feminist in the history of the United States dead or alive that can walk in the shoes of U. S. chess champion, Nazi Paikidze-Barnes.

Nazi Paikidze-Barnes

Independent Sentinel by S. Noble

In October 2016 Nazi Paikidze-Barnes, a Georgian-American is the U.S. Chess Champion and Olympic team member and she has made good on her decision to boycott the World Championship competition. She announced in October that she would boycott the Women’s World Chess Championship 2017 in Tehran, Iran due to its hijab dress code. Iran demanded foreign women submit to their dress code.

The best-ranked female chess player in the United States said she would rather sacrifice her career than submit to demands to wear a hijab at the next world championship.

Her actions are heroic, and it exposes the National Organization for Women for what they are. We hear crickets from NOW. They are nothing more than window dressing and tools of the far-left.

Paikidze-Barnes said that she has received a lot of positive feedback and appreciation from Iranian women who have to face this type of oppression every day[…]

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Forum: How Should The Left’s Censorship And Phony ‘Fake News’ Labeling Be Fought?

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controlling the message, Fake News, Fascism, First Amendment Violations, Oppression, Propaganda, War on Free Speech

Every week on Monday, the WoW! community and our invited guests weigh in at the Watcher’s Forum, short takes on a major issue of the day, the culture, or daily living. This week’s question : How Should  The Left’s Censorship And Phony  ‘Fake News’ Labeling Be Fought?

The Razor : The Left will corrupt whatever they get their hands on. We left them alone on college campuses and they’ve turned them into indoctrination camps. From there it was an easy jump to journalism, a profession that was once shunned by degree holders, one that has since become corrupted into propaganda organs by leftists.

The defense of liberty requires constant vigilance. We must push back and sometimes punch back twice as hard wherever the Left resides. Breitbart and Drudge have allowed us to take back journalism, and the Left’s “fake news” meme proves that what we’ve done is working. It’s also kind of fun given the track record of the MSM pedaling fake news stories. Truth is the Left isn’t very good at inventing facts which makes our jobs a little easier. Still we need to fight this battle or risk losing everything.

We are battling for America’s soul, and so are they. Too much is at stake for us to give them a pass. We must fight them and hit them back twice as hard.

Don Surber: Answer? With mockery

JoshuaPundit : This is as comically Orwellian as it gets – the corrupt media outlets that were caught collaborating with the Democrats and trafficking in fake news and censorship now deciding who to label ‘fake news?’

Still I have to give them credit for interesting tactics. Not only have the social media Kommisars knuckled under to the Germans –wie typisch!– and agreed to follow EU-style fascist speech codes, they have put together a common database to share so they can censor and remove anything critical of Islam, the EU, criticism of government ‘refugee’ policies or crimes  committed by those  refugees, criticism of EU governments in general, militant feminism, and pretty much anything promoting conservative ideology.

Now, tis has been taken it even further. Facebook has announced that it’s going to hire ‘fact checkers’ to examine any news submitted to them. And anything the Left wants to label ‘fake news will not only have a prominent tag saying ‘disputed’ but a link to these ‘fact checkers’ debunking it. Anyone s trolling on behalf of George Soros or the DNC for Right wing news items on Facebook will be able to flag whatever they want, after which it will be tagged disputed,  with an additional warning whenever anyone is about about to share a link and a link to their ‘fact checkers’  so-called debunking.

And who are the ‘fact checkers?’ Hard line ultra-Left partisan operatives working for sites like Snopes and Politifact, who have both been busted for peddling outright lies for The Cause numerous times.

But wait, there’s more.

It really bothered the Leftist media that Donald trump was able to bypass them completely using Twitter to communicate directly with the American people. originally, there was a real movement to ban him from Twitter, but for obvious reasons they realized that might backfire. So instead, the Washington Post has now created a browser extension on Google Chrome that allows people to ‘fact check’ Trump’s tweets right in the tweet itself. Here’s what it looks like:

‘Learn more’ goes to agit prop written by the WAPO’s own ‘fact checkers.’ Who of course would never have done anything like this to Barack Hussein Obama during his 8 years of lies and disinformation.

So, how to fight this? The same way you fight any propaganda in wartime, because make no mistake, that’s exactly what this is. First, you mock and punk the enemy, trolling lefty content and flagging it to overload the corrupt system. You expose exactly what they’re doing using platforms like Drudge and Breitbart among others. You respond to the ‘responses’ with cold facts and make them look ridiculous.

It’s fun! And a lot of people who used to take them seriously don’t anymore.

And as necessary, you starve to beast. You don’t buy from Amazon and let them know why. You don’t click on the WAPO’s links or read their content. You kick them in the wallet.

These are private companies who depend on profit to survive. Once they see in a year or so that this is costing them, they are very likely to change if they want to survive. And of course, we can start using other platforms.

Twitter, for example, has a rival called Gab.ai that’s dedicated to free speech. It’s up and running right now. They have about 500,000 users plus and are growing rapidly, you get 300 characters instead of 140 and you can even post from Gab to Twitter if you want. It works quite well but needs some additional doodads and tweaks to become a true social media giant (yes, I sent them a few suggestions. You all know what a pest I am).

I see this as a golden opportunity to do what was always needed, to marginalize the Left and fully defeat their ideology. They’re not going to have it their own way anymore.

Laura Rambeau Lee, Right Reason: We need to fight the left’s disinformation agenda and the mainstream media with the TRUTH. It would be ideal if they were required to have disclaimers, such as “this report is not necessarily the complete or even partial truth and deception and/or omissions may have occurred due to the bias of the reporter.” Sadly that will never happen. It would be different if we had a state run media like they have in socialist and communist countries, where the people know they are being told only what the State wants them to know. But we are fighting an “independent” media so entrenched with the left whose primary directive is to shield and hide the truth from the general populace in their effort to advance a communist agenda, all the while pretending to be fair and balanced.

In addition, it is imperative we educate our youth to learn HOW to think, not WHAT to think. They should question everything, as seeking knowledge is the only way to discover the truth. For too long we have neglected our primary responsibility to educate our children and instead have allowed the progressives to indoctrinate them with socialist ideology. We will never change the media unless we foster conservative values and principles in our children and young adults and arm them with the truth so they can stand up to the bullying, name calling, and other deplorable tactics of the left.

I do not like the idea of limiting the press in any way, as any censorship laws can easily be used against anyone. In the end it’s up to us to call them out on their lies wherever we see them. We in the conservative media must keep challenging the narrative and speaking and writing the truth.

I believe this presidential election proved the majority of Americans have awakened and are well aware of the corrupt media and their lies. The media and progressive pundits are on the defensive now more than ever as they have been exposed for being corrupt, racist, bigoted and divisive. It should be quite an interesting new few years.

Stately McDaniel Manor : Individual responses to “fake news’ labeling are pretty easy. Fight back, at WoW, and every other honest website. Expose media and Democrat lies, and bury them under an avalanche of truth. Point out every lie the media has ever done–Brian Williams, exploding pickup gas tanks, doctored George Zimmerman tapes, Doctored Katie Kouric anti-gun interviews, etc.–and above all, mock them mercilessly. Expose them as the partisan liars they are, and above all, remind them, over and over, virtually no one believes anything they say.

Of course, this may be accented by simply ignoring everything they have to say unless it is to punch back twice as hard. They do fear loss of revenue.

President Trump can continue to do what he has already done: go around the media in every way possible, and if Twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites ban the truth, Mr. Trump can, I’m sure, invest in a new social media company that welcomes the truth and shuts out progressive propaganda and lies. He certainly has a great many wealthy conservative friends.

What’s that you say? That would be censorship? We’d be no better than progressives?

Wake up! We’re fighting for the preservation of the Constitution against an enemy that long ago recognized us as their enemy. Besides, if it’s my social media site, I don’t have to publish anything I don’t want to publish. The Constitution doesn’t require me to publish content that will drive away my readers. It’s not like progressives don’t own every other social media site on the Internet, is it now? They already have plenty of other places to lie.

In effect, we should adopt one of Saul Alinsky’s rules for radicals: make progressives live up to their own rules and tactics. It’ll be like holy water to a vampire.

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