2024 Presidential Election_The Question About Eating Cats, Dogs, and Eagles in Springfield, OH: From the residents themselves

2024 Presidential Election_Ready To Be Lectured Again? You don't want to upset John Legend, do you?

John Legend took to social media to lecture the residents of his home town Springfield to be more accommodating to the 20,000 Haitians who just swamped the town.

Of course, John Legend doesn’t live in Springfield. Like most smug liberals, he would never in a million years live… pic.twitter.com/13AnXC0nlX

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) September 13, 2024

DSSO_Globalism And Who It Is, Explained In Three Minutes_Robert F Kennedy Jr says what no other politician will tell you

I knew it. pic.twitter.com/DFeBqxnttI https://t.co/tXFKBDPFwO

— iJudo (@obligatoryasian) September 2, 2024

2024: Best Political Ad To Date_From the camp of Nicole Shanahan, running mate of former presidential candidate RFK Jr

DSSO: The Big Little Man Complex Up Close, With Robert Reich_Jail for thee, not for me, as Reich begs for arrest of Musk for questioning legality of an election

Robert Reich, the guy who wants Elon arrested, thinks that questioning the integrity of elections is very dangerous and should be prohibited.

Unless of course it's Robert Reich in 2018 suggesting that Russia, with the help of Republicans, tampers with our voting machines. pic.twitter.com/kOj91Ig44T

— MAZE (@mazemoore) September 1, 2024

2024 Presidential Election_Hold My Hand: When Kamala tried to look presidential during a CNN interview

 

DSSO_Someone's Going To Run For Office: Zuckerberg cries Mea Culpa over election collusion with Feds, says that it was a mistake now that the damage is done

 

Mark Zuckerberg said he regrets suppressing certain Covid-19 stories on his platforms - Tom Williams/Getty Images

Mark Zuckerberg: Covid censorship was wrong and I wish I’d fought it

James Titcomb
Tue, August 27, 2024 at 2:12 AM MDT

Mark Zuckerberg has said Facebook and Instagram were wrong to censor posts about Covid during the pandemic and that the company should have fought pressure from the Biden administration.

In a letter to a US committee investigating online content moderation, Mr Zuckerberg said senior White House officials “repeatedly pressured” the company after Joe Biden was inaugurated in 2021.

He said that Facebook “made some choices” that it would not have made today.

In a letter to Jim Jordan, the Trump-supporting head of the House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee, Mr Zuckerberg wrote: “In 2021, senior officials from the Biden administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain Covid-19 content, including humour and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree.

“Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions, including Covid-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure.

“I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today.

“Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any administration in either direction – and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again.”

During the pandemic, Facebook added misinformation alerts to users when they commented on or liked posts that were judged to contain false information about Covid.

It also deleted posts criticising the Covid vaccine, or suggesting that Covid was developed in a Chinese laboratory, a theory that has since become supported by some mainstream scientists and government agencies.

In the 2020 election campaign, Mr Biden had accused Facebook of “killing people” by not clamping down on Covid posts more enthusiastically. He later rowed back on the comments.

Mr Zuckerberg also said Facebook was wrong to suppress a New York Post story about Hunter Biden, Mr Biden’s son, which revealed that Hunter had offered business contacts access to his father when he was vice president.

Facebook demoted a New York Post story about Hunter Biden which claimed he had offered contacts access to his father when he was vice-president - Craig Hudson/Reuters

He said the FBI had warned the company about a “potential Russian disinformation operation” about the Biden family. Facebook had demoted the story while it was reviewed by fact checkers, which Mr Zuckerberg said was a mistake.

The Hunter Biden laptop story, which was blocked by Twitter after it was published, was potentially damaging to Mr Biden’s election campaign. Blocking it has been seen by Republicans as proof of Silicon Valley’s Left-wing influence.

Elon Musk released a series of internal emails about the decision to block the story after buying Twitter.

The Republican-controlled House Judiciary Committee called Mr Zuckerberg’s admissions a “big win for free speech”.

Meanwhile, the White House defended its actions.

It said: “When confronted with a deadly pandemic, this administration encouraged responsible actions to protect public health and safety.

“Our position has been clear and consistent: we believe tech companies and other private actors should take into account the effects their actions have on the American people, while making independent choices about the information they present.” [SOURCE]

 
 

DSSO_ Pulling Back The Curtain Of Oz: Congressional hearings about compromised agents within the Secret Service from a former SS agent, Dan Bongino

On the anniversary of the evacuation of Kabul

The anniversary of the botched evacuation of Kabul in 2021 brought back memories. My honored alma mater, the 82nd Airborne Division was called in at the last second to enforce the final stage of the pullout. Lack of leadership resulted in the loss of 13 heroes despite the best of efforts by the servicemen and women performing that evacuation, plus the disastrous rescue of thousands of US citizens and locals who helped us for the past 20 years.

I was attending the 75th annual convention of the 82nd Airborne Division Association in the days before this epic ending of our war in Afghanistan, in Houston where my brother from my time at Bragg in the mid-80's is currently the Chairman of the local Houston chapter that hosted the convention that year, and put together this little video about what it felt like when we heard the news break:

 

2024 Presidential Election: What Convention Bump?_First RFK, Now Tulsi: The Endorsements Keep Coming In

 

By  MEG KINNARD and AUDREY McAVOY

Updated 7:15 PM MDT, August 26, 2024 

 

Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has endorsed Donald Trump’s presidential bid, furthering her shift away from the party she sought to represent four years ago and linking herself to the GOP nominee’s critiques of Vice President Kamala Harris and the chaotic Afghanistan War withdrawal.

Appearing Monday with Trump in Detroit, Gabbard, a National Guard veteran who served two tours of duty in the Middle East before representing Hawaii in the U.S. House, said the GOP nominee “understands the grave responsibility that a president and commander in chief bears for every single one of our lives.”

The pair appeared at the National Guard Association of the United States on the third anniversary of the Aug. 26, 2021, suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport, which killed 13 U.S. service members and more than 100 Afghans. Gabbard accompanied Trump earlier Monday to Arlington National Cemetery, where the former president laid wreaths in honor of three of the slain service members — Sgt. Nicole Gee, Staff Sgt. Darin Hoover and Staff Sgt. Ryan Knauss.

On Monday, Gabbard praised Trump for “having the courage to meet with adversaries, dictators, allies and partners alike in the pursuit of peace, seeing war as a last resort.” She condemned the Democratic White House for the U.S. now “facing multiple wars on multiple fronts in regions around the world and closer to the brink of nuclear war than we ever have been before.”

The former president’s team announced later Monday that Gabbard would moderate a town hall with Trump that the campaign was planning for Thursday in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Gabbard has long signaled some level of support for Trump, even while she sat in the U.S. House as a Democrat. In 2019, she was the only lawmaker to vote “present” when the House of Representatives impeached Trump for his dealings with Ukraine.

Gabbard was known during her four House terms for taking positions at odds with her own party’s establishment. She was an early and vocal supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 Democratic presidential primary run, which made her popular with progressives.

Not seeking reelection in 2020, Gabbard ran for president herself instead, saying U.S. wars in the Middle East destabilized the region, made the U.S. less safe and cost thousands of American lives, and that Democrats and Republicans shared the blame. She tore into Harris’ record during a primary debate and ultimately outlasted her in that race, which President Joe Biden ultimately won.

Gabbard endorsed Biden but became an independent two years later, saying the Democratic Party was dominated by an “elitist cabal of warmongers” and “woke” ideologues. In the years since she has campaigned for several high-profile Republicans, become a contributor to Fox News and started a podcast.

Another former Democratic presidential contender also just recently endorsed Trump. Last week, independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — who last year ran as a Democrat challenging Biden for the nomination — suspended his campaign and said he was backing Trump in the general election.[SOURCE]