Month: January 2021
Devin Nunes On Big Tech Parler Ban: ‘There Should Be A Racketeering Investigation’
Republicans Congressman Devin Nunes, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that the Justice Department should launch an investigation into tech companies’ efforts to remove Parler from their platforms.
Nunes made his comments on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”
Nunes calls for a RICO investigation of the Parler crackdown: "I don't know where the hell the DOJ is at right now, or the FBI. This is clearly a violation of antitrust, civil rights, the RICO statute — there should be a racketeering investigation."
— Jan Wolfe (@JanNWolfe) January 10, 2021
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Nunes On Parler Ban: ‘It’s Far Worse Than What I Could Even Imagine’
“Well, Maria, when I wrote that book, I was hoping to warn Americans so that they would vote right and that maybe this wouldn’t happen and this could be prevented,” Nunes told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo.
Nunes said the move by Big Tech violated antitrust laws, civil rights and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
“Unfortunately, it’s far worse than what I could even imagine,” Nunes said. “The effect of this is that there is no longer a free and open social media company or site for any American to get on any longer, because these big companies, Apple, Amazon, Google, they have just destroyed a — what was likely — Parler is likely a billion-dollar company.”
“Poof, it’s gone,” he added.
Devin Nunes, who hasn't been active on Twitter in a month, says on Parler: "We may not be able to communicate soon." pic.twitter.com/DetXW0RODi
— Daniel Chaitin (@danielchaitin7) January 9, 2021
‘This Is Clearly A Violation Of Antitrust’
Nunes then stressed that conservatives need to have the same social media abilities that non-conservatives enjoys.
“But it’s more than just the financial aspect to that,” Nunes explained. “Republicans have no way to communicate.”
“If — and it doesn’t even matter if you’re a Republican or conservative,” he continued.
“If you don’t want to be regulated by left-wingers that are at Twitter and Facebook and Instagram, where you get shadowbanned, nobody gets to see you — nobody gets to see you, they get to decide what’s violent or not violent, it’s preposterous,” Nunes said.
Nunes then cited the violation of antitrust laws.
“So, I don’t know where the hell the Department of Justice is at right now or the FBI,” Nunes said. “This is clearly a violation of antitrust, civil rights, the RICO statute.”
Nunes on Fox: I have three million followers on Parler..I will no longer be able to communicate with those people…I went there because I knew that I could express my thoughts freely.
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) January 10, 2021
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Nunes Denounces ‘Attack’ On Parler And Conservatives Being Able To Operate On Social Media
“There should be a racketeering investigation on all the people that coordinated this attack on not only a company but on all of those like us, like me, like you, Maria. I have 3 million followers on Parler,” he added.
“Tonight, I will no longer be able to communicate with those people,” Nunes lamented. “And they’re Americans.”
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Biden Declares Economic Relief For Businesses Will Be Based Partly On Gender And Race
President-elect Joe Biden announced that economic relief for struggling businesses would be based partly on the gender and race of the owners.
In a video posted to the Biden-Harris presidential transition team Twitter account, the soon-to-be President admitted his obsession with identity politics by noting skin color and gender would play a part in deciding who gets economic relief from the federal government.
“Our focus will be on small businesses on Main Street that aren’t wealthy and well-connected, that are facing real economic hardships through no fault of their own,” Biden announced.
He added, “Our priority will be Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American owned small businesses, women-owned businesses, and finally having equal access to resources needed to reopen and rebuild.”
“Our priority will be Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American owned small businesses, women-owned businesses, and finally having equal access to resources needed to reopen and rebuild.” — President-elect Biden pic.twitter.com/pIyDuhf5pH
— Biden-Harris Presidential Transition (@Transition46) January 10, 2021
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Response to Biden’s Decision to Make Economic Relief Partially Contingent on Race and Gender is Negative
As you might imagine, response to the Democrat president-elect segregating economic relief for businesses based on race and gender wasn’t warmly received.
“If you don’t vote for me, you ain’t … receiving these government assistance checks?” political commentator Kyle Becker partially joked, making reference to Biden’s famous comment that African-Americans that don’t vote for him “ain’t black.”
“If you don’t vote for me, you ain’t… receiving these government assistance checks”?
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) January 11, 2021
Others were less willing to be in a joking mood about Biden’s economic inequality declaration.
This is racial discrimination. Joe Biden should be impeached already.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) January 11, 2021
Identity politics is poison.
— Rebeccah Heinrichs (@RLHeinrichs) January 11, 2021
To be fair, it was mostly minority-owned businesses that were affected by the riots that Biden, Harris, and the Democrats encouraged over the summer.
Translation: If you are a white man who owns a business you are on your own.
This never ends well. These people are on the train tracks and they do not see the train coming. Why do Democrats ALWAYS do this? How is this helping unity? You are picking winners and losers.
— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) January 11, 2021
Biden’s Choices Always Revolve Around Race and Gender
Who could have possibly imagined that it would be a Democrat President-elect who would drag civil rights back decades by making government decisions based on ethnicity or sex?
Besides everyone, I mean.
Biden is, after all, the man who chose Kamala Harris to be his running mate not based on credentials or resume, but because she is a woman who isn’t white.
This seems like a blatant violation of the civil rights act, if not the fourteenth amendment
— Jeremy Frankel (@FrankelJeremy) January 11, 2021
The same man who accused Republicans of trying to hold back blacks economically by putting “y’all back in chains” is more than willing to put the chains on white-owned businesses.
“We’re going to make a concerted effort to help small businesses in low-income communities in big cities, small towns, rural communities that have faced systemic barriers to relief,” Biden added.
“Think of the mom and pop owner with a couple of employees who can’t pick up the phone and call a banker, who doesn’t have a lawyer, an accountant, to help them through this complicated process.”
Just as with voter identification, Biden seems to be suggesting it’s the minority and woman-owned businesses without the capability or knowledge to navigate complex applications.
Is there anything more racist than saying certain groups of people aren’t smart enough to figure things out without the government’s assistance?
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