In less than 12 months they closed our businesses, forced us to wear muzzles, kept us from our families, killed off our sports, burned down our cities, forcibly seized power, and shut down our speech.

Then they accused *us* of the coup.

They're not doing this because they consider Trump weak and Biden popular.

From now on, it appears that every legitimate protest will be infiltrated by bad actors perpetrating violence and destruction. That's the beginning of the end of public protest. Free speech is already half gone.

We've reached the point where most of the elected members of our representative government no longer represent anyone but themselves.

At least the ACLU managed to say this, a mild condemnation of the censorship today:

“It should concern everyone when companies like Facebook and Twitter wield the unchecked power to remove people from platforms that have become indispensable for the speech of billions.”

Unless I’m mis-reading, bflynn DID vote for Trump because he said as much in this post:

http://www.pilotspin.com/index.php?topic=5238.msg89903#msg89903

Lucifer, yourself, and a couple others appear to be insulted enough by bflynn’s posts to cause confusion in your minds about bflynn’s actual preferences. Seems kind of like the second-guessing acrimony that players on a team might have after a loss - griping over tactical mistakes. Seems most common on newly assembled teams.

Just like they used covid they’re gonna use that Capitol siege as an excuse to do a major rights grab.

Apparently Apple has pulled the Parler app. I can't even get it to load on my laptop currently.

I’m waiting for that too.

I’ll help her. Assault weapons have a scary shape. Bad guys use them in movies.

The authenticity of some of its emails appears to have been established: when you have the entire original emails (meaning all the headers) from the machine’s email storage, then if the email providers involved were using current standards, it is possible to authenticate whether an email was sent at the claimed time from the claimed source to the claimed destination with the claimed message content. This is because such systems add things called DKIM and ARC headers that allow messages to be authenticated manually at a later date.

In fact a security expert did run a DKIM authentication check on one or more emails and verified them. This has been acknowledged by Hunter Biden defenders who nevertheless claim that it is possible someone could have created both accounts back in 2015 (remember the timestamps are also authenticated) with the objective of smearing the Bidens at some later date like 2019.

You can do a web search on keywords “hunter biden emails and dkim” for various stories. Here’s one in his defense:
https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2020/11/fact-check-what-dkim-verification-of-Hunter-Biden-email-proves-and-what-it-doesn't.html

Here are some technical backgrounders on DKIM and ARC:
https://www.dmarcanalyzer.com/dkim/dkim-signature/
https://postmarkapp.com/blog/what-is-arc-or-authenticated-received-chain

P.S. Most email client programs allow you to view all the headers of an email. It is worthwhile just for personal edification to take a look. The number of headers is quite mind-numbing at times. Check to see if any headers have DKIM or ARC in their names.

Capitalism is a bitch, hey.