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We simply cannot stay closed until the vaccine hits critical mass. The cost is too high. We will have nothing left to open. We must reopen the economy, but we must do it smartly and safely.
- Tweet by Gov. Cuomo
Brilliant strategist…It’s incredible that no one thought of this months ago!
- Response tweet by Donald Trump Jr.
There is no example of the left – not liberals, they value free speech – no example of the left having power and not suppressing speech. It doesn’t exist. The left does not value free speech because free speech is its dire enemy. If people can actually say what is wrong with the left, it crumbles… I think we can predict there will be more and more suppression. If you read a brief synopsis of the Reichstag fire in Germany in 1933. Fire was set to the German parliament a month after Hitler took power. He used the Reichstag fire in order to start killing communists. What we’re having now, and I’m not calling them Nazis, I’m calling them totalitarians, the use of an event to suppress liberty. 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 Joe Biden talking about who will get government support to help them get through the Covid financial crisis
Vandalism and looting, whether it’s in D.C. or Portland, SoHo, Kenosha, Minneapolis, Seattle – it’s all bad no matter who’s doing it. So we must remain consistent. That’s what makes us different from the rest. We don’t play favorites with mobs. The other side does, but we don’t.
- Greg Gutfeld, Fox News
I do believe the Capitol is a sacred place. I also believe that the guy who invested his life savings in a small business, to him, that was a sacred place, too.
– Ibid.
You will not see Republicans bailing out those who were arrested. See, that is a vital contrast, and Americans know this.
- Ibid.
It has been an epiphany for the world to see that there are people in our country led by this president, for the moment, who have chosen their Whiteness over democracy.
- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, after the Capital riot
Let it be known to the business world: Hire any of Trump’s fellow fabulists…and Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie. We’re going to scrutinize, double-check, investigate with the same skepticism we’d approach a Trump tweet. Want to ensure the world’s biggest business media brand approaches you as a potential funnel of disinformation? Then hire away.
- Forbes Chief Content Officer Randall Lane warning companies not to hire people from the Trump administration
The speech that President Trump made, I wish he wouldn’t have made it. But it is fully and completely protected by the First Amendment. Every constitutional scholar will tell you that what he did was advocacy, not incitement. Every leader goes to Washington, whether it be a labor leader… civil rights leader, and they say, “Go march on the Capitol! Show them how strong we are! We are going to fight back! We are not going to take this anymore!” That is political rhetoric that lies at the core of the First Amendment. Yet they cite that as the primary article of impeachment. It is just so inconsistent with our constitutional system.
– Alan Dershowitz on 770 WABC with John Catsimatidis
In 1801, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter about that. He said, “You don’t go after the speaker; you go after the criminals and punish them.”
- Ibid.
Once you establish a precedent that allows censorship, it’s going to be used against everybody. “Free speech for me but not for thee” never works. If you take away free speech, you are taking it away from everybody.
- Ibid. Meanwhile, the Taliban’s official spokesperson still has a Twitter account. As does India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, even as his government cracks down on dissent and oversees nationalistic violence. The Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte’s Facebook account is alive and well, despite his having weaponized the platform against journalists and in his “war on drugs.” The list could go on. Facebook says it has taken action against other world leaders before Trump, but it hasn’t given details.
– From an article titled, “Trump is banned. Who’s next,” in liberal-leaning Atlantic magazine
That is all white grievance. Making people believe that they have the right to do certain things because they’re entitled to it.
– CNN’s Don Lemon talking about the Capitol protestors
Imagine if the people in the Capitol today look like me, Chris. Where do you think we would have been today? We would have been in a bloodbath.
- Ibid
We have a long way to go – counting could take some time. I do not expect it to be called tonight, but we will be going through. But already, we know on the numbers that we have, we won.
- CNN’s Chris Cuomo, who claims to be a neutral journalist, reporting that it looks like the Democrats won both senate seats in Georgia
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A lot of people are going to be super unhappy with West Coast high tech as the de facto arbiter of free speech.
- Tweet by Elon Musk
When the two images arrived at Vogue, all of us felt very, very strongly that the less formal portrait of the Vice President-elect really reflected the moment that we were living in. We are in the midst...of the most appalling pandemic that is taking lives by the minute, and we felt to reflect this tragic moment in global history, a much less formal picture, something that was very, very accessible, and approachable, and really reflected the hallmark of the BidenHarris campaign…
- Vogue editor Anna Wintour responding to widespread criticism that she put a too-informal photo of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on the magazine’s cover We cannot leave it to American Big Tech companies to decide how we do and do not discuss, what can and cannot be said in a democratic discourse.
- Manfred Weber, the leader of the European People’s Party, the largest in the European Parliament, in an interview with Politico
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