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If you're interested in the Florida defamation law Stephen Miller was complaining about, read this piece

revolver.news/2024/02/conser…
Revolver News has been on top of the defamation question for quite some time.

In fact, in this piece we encouraged a change in defamation law which would make left wing smear terms like "racist" defamatory per se

To its credit, this is precisely what the Florida law aims to do

revolver.news/2022/06/johnny…
Defamation law is anachronistic in the sense that questioning a woman's chastity is considered so essentially damaging that damages don't have to be proven--defamatory per se

In our age of slut pride, however, it's not hard to see how being accused of racism is far more damaging from reputational point of view
You’re the typical American mid-career professional, a doctor or lawyer or college professor—if you already are one, no need to imagine. What do you fear more?

Being falsely accused of having monkeypox, or of being a “racist”?

Would it be worse to appear on your local newspaper’s front page under a headline suggesting you embezzled money, or one suggesting you are a white nationalist?
The answer, we suspect, is obvious.
This is why updating the law to make such smears as "racist" defamatory per se is an important and long overdue update to defamation law.
So what's wrong then with the Florida law?

The short answer is that the left simply has a far more sophisticated, robust, and aggressive lawfare infrastructure with a demonstrable record of using defamation law to punish and intimidate political enemies

For this reason any relaxation of defamation law, especially the change in "actual malice" standard entertained in florida law, is likely to redound to the net benefit of the left.
Just in past year we saw near billion dollar defamation cases against Fox and Alex Jones.

In the case of Alex Jones, it's clear the attack wasn't really about Sandy Hook, it was about silencing a powerful anti-establishment voice in the Trump era

The details of this will shock you

revolver.news/2022/08/war-ag…
Then of course there's the Ray Epps intimidation tour, in which Epps retained a notorious David Brock linked DNC lawyer to sue Fox over Tucker and my reporting on Epps

The Florida law would embolden such efforts.

Of course, Epps has no case and curiously a precedent involving rapper Tupac explains why

revolver.news/2022/08/war-ag…
Short version is Florida law is well intentioned but ill advised.

The assymetry in lawfare capability means it would bit us in the ass.

If the proposed bill stopped at adding charges of "racism" to defamatory per se category, it would probably be a net positive.

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Below, courtesy of Thomas Massie, is the most damning and explosive J6 footage yet released.

In my view this will end up demolishing the Regime's J6 narrative and with it a major pillar of Dem's 2024 strategy.

You paying attention Kamala?
This footage shows the discovery of the pipe bomb at a bench outside the DNC headquarters.

This first clips shows that at approximately 1:05 a man in a backpack approaches a Metro PD SUV and a black Secret Service SUV informing them of the pipe bomb's presence

Interestingly, recent report from @TPC4USA reveals this man in the back pack is a plain clothes Capitol Police officer
Here's the first sign things are a bit out of the ordinary.

After being informed of a pipe bomb feet away, the metro PD authorities (who are technically on the secret service detail) take over a minute before they even bother getting out of their car!
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Jan 18
Here we go:

Secret Service Foreknowledge or Criminal Negligence? Damning New Evidence Surfaces In FBI’s Jan 6 “Pipe Bomb” Story

revolver.news/2024/01/secret…
Major Tucker Carlson interview dropping on pipe bomb this evening that will change the way you think about 2024

Kamala... we see you

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Why did Kamala hide the fact she was at DNC? Why didn't Kamala mention on J6 anniversary that she was within hair's width of losing her life to MAGA pipe bomb?

Why didn't Joe Biden mention this in his speech?

revolver.news/2024/01/secret…
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Jan 9
Vivek expounds on a very dark, yet disturbingly plausible theory about the true purpose of Nikki Haley in the 2024 race

Every concerned citizen should watch these clips
"The likes of Reid Hoffmann, Larry Fink, and others... who are they propping up... it's not Gavin Newsom or Joe Biden... it's Nikki Haley"
Vivek and I discuss... will they JFK Trump to install dark horse Nikki Haley?
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Aug 9, 2023
Biden Regime caught red handed in nefarious regime change plot to oust and imprison Pakistan's beloved populist leader Imran Khan

Meddling anyone?

revolver.news/2023/08/leaked…
Since our interview, the infamous diplomatic Cypher communicating the Biden Regime's demand that Pakistan overthrow its democratically elected leader has been LEAKED in a major journalistic coup (no pun) by The Intercept's @MazMHussain

theintercept.com/2023/08/09/imr…
This leak confirms the remarkable hypocrisy of Biden, who called putin a "killer" and constantly lamented Russia's alleged (and unproven) meddling in the 2016 election---only to be caught red handed demanding that Pakistan overthrow its leader or else!

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I was one of the last two international journalists to interview Prime Minister Imran Khan before his arrest

In this critical section of the interview, we discuss the Biden regime's role in his ouster -- specifically, the wicked color revolution professional Victoria Nuland
Note that Trump personally and directly called out Victoria Nuland in what is perhaps the best of his excellent policy statements this campaign season

revolver.news/2023/03/trump-…
I've long been on Nuland's case, as she is a key player in the American color revolution regime change cabal

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Jul 10, 2023
@nytimes The so-called journalists who authored this piece try to shrug off the fact Epps wasn't indicted as normal Image
@nytimes In fact, the DOJ had a layup tresspassing charge that it used in a number of cases, including against Mark Ibrahim, Jeremy Brown, and Owen Shroyer just to name a few
@nytimes By standards applied to other J6ers, the DOJ could have easily slapped a conspiracy charge against Epps for the following exchange

Note the person Epps is speaking to hear ended up going into the Capital and doing a lot of damag
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