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AG William Barr: "If you are an American business leader, appeasing the PRC may bring short-term rewards. But in the end, the PRC’s goal is to replace you." Listen up, Woke Capitalists realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/…
AG Barr: "...if Disney and other American corporations continue to bow to Beijing, they risk undermining both their own future competitiveness and prosperity, as well as the classical liberal order that has allowed them to thrive." justice.gov/opa/speech/att…
This from AG Barr is the whole ballgame:

The CCP has launched an orchestrated campaign...to exploit the openness of our institutions in order to destroy them. To secure a world of freedom and prosperity for our children and grandchildren, the free world will need its own..."
"...version of the whole-of-society approach, in which the public and private sectors maintain their essential separation but work together collaboratively to resist domination and to win the contest for the commanding heights of the global economy" justice.gov/opa/speech/att…

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Mar 19
🧵My impression walking out of SCOTUS yesterday, having witnessed oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri was demoralization. The Censorship Industrial Complex proved itself in the case to have cajoled, coerced, and colluded with social media platforms to censor Wrongthinking Americans en masse, and yet that the government's "partners" abridged clear protected political speech wasn't clearly presented and argued. Whether we will retain anything resembling a First Amendment likely hinges on Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett. Herein, a thread I will update as I parse the transcript🧵 nypost.com/2024/03/18/opi…
Multiple times the U.S. government lamented how the plaintiffs in the case were using the courts to "audit" their efforts to conspire with social media platforms to censor us on the Hunter Biden laptop story, election integrity and outcomes, and COVID. Unmentioned is that without Murthy v. Missouri we would've never known about this conspiracy to kill our First Amendment. Is the government's issue with the audit or with what the audit revealed about its depredations?Image
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Principal Deputy Solicitor General Brian Fletcher sought to make this case about the government using mere "persuasion" (legal) versus "coercion" (illegal) to pressure social media companies to violate the First Amendment on its behalf as deputized speech police.

While there was a raft of evidence of coercion, Philip Hamburger -- whose @NCLAlegal represents some of the plaintiffs in Murthy -- persuasively makes the case that that isn't the right standard. As the plaintiffs wrote in their brief, citing Hamburger: "The First Amendment does not require a strict showing of explicit coercion, but capaciously protects the freedom of speech from any 'abridging' (i.e., diminishing) of that freedom."Image
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Mar 9
🧵On Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections From Mass Illegal Immigration
With America having suffered an invasion by design under President Biden, @elonmusk and others have grown conscious of how the influx of illegal aliens impacts our political system. What follows is a brief thread on this illegitimate practice and how Democrats have fought tooth & nail dating back to the Trump years to maintain it -- including last night in striking down a @SenatorHagerty-led amendment
The Constitution calls for a census count to apportion representatives -- to determine the number of House seats and therefore presidential electors granted each state -- based on the "whole number of persons in each state excluding Indians not taxed." That count is also used to allocate hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funding annually. Do illegal aliens count? thefederalist.com/2019/02/21/don…
Arguably the number of illegal aliens in a state shouldn't be used to give it greater political representation in Washington, or to get more federal funds redistributed down to it. thefdrlst.wpengine.com/2018/03/01/lef…
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Feb 16
🧵The Ultimate Thread on Biden’s Betrayal of Israel
The notion that President Joe Biden is a stalwart supporter of Israel, let alone acting in the best interests of the U.S. in the Middle East, is and has been a complete and total canard.

This Big Lie, propagated by the administration and its mouthpieces, provides cover for what amounts to an anti-American plot to put the screws to Israel, as part and parcel of an effort to make the world’s leading state sponsor of terror, Iran, the regional hegemon.

Since Oct. 7th – a Holocaust-in-a-day perpetrated by Iran’s proxy Hamas – despite initial rhetoric to the contrary and the continued provision of munitions (for now), the Biden admin has shown in word and more importantly deed that it is doing everything it possibly can within political reason to slander, stymie, sabotage, and ultimately imperil the very existence of our chief ally in the Middle East.

Now the Biden admin is going in for the kill shot: A push to force the Jewish state to effectively lose the war to Hamas, free hundreds if not thousands of jihadists, and reward a Palestinian Arab population overwhelmingly supportive of the Oct. 7 massacre and Hamas with a state in a bid to “sue for peace” with Iran -- threatening Israel's very existence in exchange for purported "normalization" with Arab powers.

What follows is an effort to chronicle the Biden admin's treachery towards Israel.

This thread should serve as the death knell of the false narrative that Biden supports the Jewish state – and more fundamentally that he is representing the interests of the American people over those of our adversaries with the blood of our countrymen on their hands.
10/7/23: The very day in which Hamas executes the most deadly and barbaric attack on Israel in its modern history – raping, murdering, burning, mutilating, beheading, and taking hostage innocents totaling 1,200 dead and approximately 240 abducted – including among them ~40 Americans – U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs urges “all sides” including Israel “to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks.” It quickly deletes the message, but this reflexive response will prove revealing
10/8/23: Sec. of State Antony Blinken likewise tweets and then quickly deletes post encouraging Turkey’s “advocacy for a cease-fire”

State Dept. would reportedly issue a directive barring such rhetoric in public statements, but within months wholly obliterate that order
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Feb 9
Surely mere mortals, and Donald Trump would get the benefit of the doubt Joe Biden does here justice.gov/storage/report…
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Was Joe Biden's mind going as far back as 2017? justice.gov/storage/report…
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This is truly the kiss of death in legal form -- the back-handed compliment of all back-handed compliments justice.gov/storage/report…
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Jan 16
Grab some popcorn: Special Counsel Weiss' office has responded to Hunter Biden's claims Delaware gun case should be dismissed:

1) For "selective and vindictive prosecution"
2) Because global immunity get-out-of-jail-free card from failed sham plea deal somehow remains in effect storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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Yes, Hunter Biden's legal team really argued that his Dad's Justice Department is selectively prosecuting him because...Republicans are weaponizing the DOJ

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Note that to create the appearance that Special Counsel Weiss is an apolitical actor, DOJ points to his appointment by the Obama-Biden admin -- as opposed to how Dem hacks always harp on him being a Trump appointee (despite fact it was Delaware's Dem senators who pushed him)
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Dec 13, 2023
The full transcript of the Dec. 5th @WaysandMeansGOP hearing with IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler is out waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/upl…
.@JasonSmithMO: "Vice President Biden appears to have treated Air Force Two like a corporate jet, traveling to Ukraine and Mexico to advance Hunter Biden's business interests. Evidence from today's documents show right around the time of international trips, like those to Ukraine, Joe Biden was emailing his son and his son's business partner from private email accounts using aliases while Vice President."Image
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Gary Shapley asks the pivotal question: "after [then-U.S. Attorney David] Weiss went to the Biden-appointed U.S. Attorney [in Washington D.C.], the statute of limitations on the 2014 and 2015 tax years [when Hunter Biden evaded Federal taxes on income from Ukrainian energy company Burisma] was allowed to expire. Why? That is the key question Congress needs answered. It has asked Mr. Weiss. He refused to answer. To date, he has not been compelled to answer."
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