Knowles: The Social Media Companies Are Coming For Us

In today’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show,” Michael talks about how Twitter’s ban of Gavin McInnes is just the next step in shutting out conservatives from social media.

“This is what I told you would happen. I told you this would happen last week when they were hitting Alex Jones and I said we have to defend the shirtless vitamin salesman,” Knowles said.

“I know, conservatives don’t want to. They find it is unsavory. It’s uncouth to defend Alex Jones.”

But now Twitter is going after CRTV Host Gavin McInnes, and who knows who’s next.

“Gavin sent out a statement when they banned him. He said: ‘You know they’re coming for you next,’ They’re gonna go for probably breitbart.com, then they’re gonna go for the Daily Caller or….” Knowles said. “Now, Daily Caller. Now you’re getting way more mainstream and they’re gonna go for the Daily Wire and I’m sure they’re coming for us.”

Video and transcript below:

This brings us to the Gavin McInnes of it all.

You might have seen this over the weekend. Gavin McInnes, who has been on our show – I’ve been on his show a couple times – he was banned from Twitter. Gavin founded the Proud Boys, which is this group of, I think they call themselves Western chauvinists, and you know, they want to be an answer to Antifa. They say: “We’re not going to let you beat up our guys on the street,” and you know, it’s a bunch of young guys. They’re pumping full of testosterone and energy, sure. Twitter decided to ban Gavin.

Why did they ban Gavin? Did he violate Twitter’s rules? No, he didn’t. There’s no evidence that he violated any of Twitter’s rules. There’s no tweet you can point to that says this is in violation. There’s certainly no recent tweet that you can point to say this is why he got banned from Twitter, but this comes just after last week when Jack Dorsey, the head of Twitter said: “We’re not gonna ban Alex Jones because Alex Jones hasn’t violated the rules”.

Okay, you’re not gonna ban Alex Jones. Then why are you banning Gavin?

They banned Gavin two days before the Unite the Right rally, because they find the Proud Boys implicated in Unite the Right last year. Some of the Proud Boys were enthusiastic about Unite the Right. Now, Gavin McInnes, for his part has totally disavowed the alternative right, the white nationalists.

He hasn’t said, “I’m a racist! I’m a white nationalist! I support…”

No, he doesn’t. Now, he’s a provocateur. He’s a comedian, but he has said explicitly: “I am NOT a racist and I don’t support white supremacy or white nationalism.” They booted him anyway.

This is what I told you would happen. I told you this would happen last week when they were hitting Alex Jones and I said we have to defend the shirtless vitamin salesman.

I know, conservatives don’t want to. They find it is unsavory. It’s uncouth to defend Alex Jones. To say: “Oh pish-posh, I’m not like him. I don’t think that the water is turning the frogs gay. I don’t take my shirt off frequently in public. You know, I don’t try to sell people vitamins. I don’t want to defend Alex Jones.”

I say, well it’s coming. They go first for Alex Jones because he’s the easiest to boot. He’s so easy. Nobody wants to defend him on the right or the left, so they get rid of Jones and YouTube and Facebook did that. Twitter didn’t quite do it, but then Jack Dorsey is under so much pressure. He must be under so much insane pressure from the left to censor people and he just gave in on Gavin McInnes. So now Gavin McInnes is getting banned on social media. Gavin’s a little harder to ban than Alex Jones, but they banned Alex Jones to establish the principle that they’re gonna start censoring more mainstream people.

You know Gavin McInnes has been on Fox News a zillion times. Gavin McInnes co-founded Vice media, Vice magazine. Gavin is a comedian. He’s an actor. He’s a provocateur, you know. He’s got his talk shows and everything.

This is not some like fringe Nazi who’s, you know, out there marching for a white Ethno-state. He’s a little bit more. Now, he’s not totally mainstream, right? He’s not. He’s still kind of punk-rock, Vice media; but they establish the principle with Alex Jones. Now they’re gonna push it to Gavin McInnes.

Gavin sent out a statement when they banned him. He said: “You know they’re coming for you next.” They’re gonna go for probably breitbart.com, then they’re gonna go for the Daily Caller or….”

Now, Daily Caller. Now you’re getting way more mainstream and they’re gonna go for the Daily Wire and I’m sure they’re coming for us.

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Oops: Linda Sarsour’s ‘Mentor’ Was Father of New Mexico Jihad Trainer

The son of a “mentor” to liberal activist and Women’s March organizer Linda Sarsour stands accused of running a camp in the New Mexico desert in which children were abused, neglected and radicalized, multiple news sources have reported.

The saga began in early August when authorities received a message saying, “We are starving and need food and water,” according to TheBlaze. That led the Taos County Sheriff’s Office to a compound where five adults and 11 children between 1 and 15 were being kept in absolute squalor — all, apparently, in the name of Islamist extremism.

“The father of a missing 3-year-old who was arrested at a New Mexico compound linked to ‘extremist Muslims’ last week was training children to commit school shootings, court documents filed on Wednesday revealed,” Fox News reported Thursday (emphasis added).

The investigation had begun after Abdul-ghani Wahhaj, a child with severe medical issues, was reported missing from Georgia last December.

“Prosecutors allege Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 39, was conducting weapons training on the compound, where 11 children were found hungry and living in squalor,” Fox News reported. “They asked Wahhaj, who appeared in court on Wednesday, be held without bail.”

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The news media jumped on the horrific details of the story, although some details seemed more important than others. For instance, the fact that Sarsour, had a very strong connection with Wahhaj’s father, who also happened to be a prominent Brooklyn imam, was pretty much glossed over

Here are some tweets she’s made over the past few years in support of Imam Siraj Wahhaj, a man the New York Post identified as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing:

It wasn’t just a matter of giving some social media power-daps, either. Sarsour would also engage in public conversations with the imam:

Now, let me be the first to say I’m not accusing Sarsour of knowing that Imam Siraj’s son was allegedly running the jihadist version of the Spahn Movie Ranch. However, at some level, it beggars belief the Women’s March principal had no inkling she was dealing with someone whose beliefs on religion were extreme enough that his son would set up an operation like this.

Oh, and in case you hadn’t caught the subtext I’d only hinted at before, Imam Siraj’s son didn’t just set up shop in the New Mexico hinterlands because he was a wacky dude. If you missed the motive, you’re far from the only one. Let’s take NBC News’ treatment of it, starting with the first two paragraphs and the last two paragraphs.

Is the mainstream media deliberately burying the terrorism connection in this story?

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First the beginning: “The resident who owns the sprawling New Mexico land where a makeshift compound was discovered says he notified authorities about spotting a missing boy on his property, but they didn’t step foot on the grounds — until it was too late,” they reported Friday.

“Jason Badger owns the land in rural New Mexico where investigators raided a squalid compound last Friday while looking for Abdul-ghani Wahhaj, a toddler who was last seen in Jonesboro, Georgia, with his father, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj. They found the elder Wahhaj, four other adults and 11 starving children ages 1 to 15. But there was no sign of the boy.”

Stomach-churning stuff, you’ll admit. But in a sort of world-record attempt at burying the lede, the first mention of the motive appears in the last two paragraphs in a 19-paragraph story: “Few details are known about those living in the compound. After the raid, Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe said that a tactical unit had been sent because the residents were likely ‘heavily armed and considered extremist of the Muslim belief.’

Wahhaj identified himself as ‘the son of the famous Muslim Imam Siraj Wahhaj’ in a 2006 federal court filing obtained by The Associated Press. He said he was harassed by customs agents at New York’s Kennedy International Airport before and after a trip to Morocco, according to the AP.” (emphasis added)

That was pretty much the main attraction here — jihadists training children in the desert to commit school shootings as part of Islamic terrorism.

Instead, it got completely lost in a narrative where there was absolutely no space for that conclusion. And as for mentioning the connection to Linda Sarsour’s mentor — well, you don’t want to come across as prejudiced, do you?

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Secret Service Moves in After Antifa Thugs Finally Cross the Line

What started as peaceful protests outside the White House on Sunday soon drew the attention of the Secret Service.

While the bulk of the protesters marched while carrying banners of “Peace” and chanting peaceful slogans, the crowd was also “peppered with anarchists, black bloc thugs and armed, masked Antifa members,” as reported by The Daily Caller.

Amid chants the of “Love, not hate. That’s what makes America Great,” threats of violence against President Donald Trump were being recorded by reporters on the scene.

The Secret Service policy prohibits comments on “protective intelligence investigations,” but the agency confirmed with The Daily Caller that it was aware of the threats and the incident was under investigation.

As reporters asked the antifa protesters what they would say to the president if he showed up at the rally, they answered with violence in all instances.

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“If I get the chance to f— him up I would.”

“We’d have to do him like Gaddafi.”

“Beat his ass.”

“I would murder him, for the people.”

Do you think the antifa thugs are terrorists?

“If I get a chance to f— him up, I would.”

“I would throw the f—— bell at him.”

“I would p— on his leg.”

Violence against those with whom they disagree seems common in the antifa movement.

In this video from the dismal Unite the Right rally on Sunday in Washington, a man was pushed by an antifa protester, and large groups of demonstrators marched through the street chanting anti-American slogans.

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Social media chronicled antifa protesters attacking media and law enforcement.

However much these thugs claim to be motivated by battling what they call “fascism,” it seems they have no other interest except to be oppositional and violent, especially against conservatives and capitalism. It may be amazing to you, as it is to me, that this group claims to be anti-fascist. They are anything but that.

It’s long past time that the Secret Service steps in to investigate the actions of these radicals. It’s never acceptable to threaten a president. And neither should anyone in the United States fear for their own safety as they peacefully gather to demonstrate, no matter what the cause.

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Erdogan: Turkey Will Target U.S. Electronics in Boycott Response

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has responded to the diplomatic spat engulfing Turkey-U.S. relations by pledging a national  boycott of U.S.-made electronic goods.

As Breitbart News reported, Turkey faces “the very real risk of U.S. sanctions” if it does not free American pastor Andrew Brunson, arrested on dubious charges of aiding Marxist and Islamist terrorist groups.

Mr. Erdogan suggested that Turkey would stop buying U.S.-made iPhones and instead look to Korean Samsung or Turkish-made Vestel if the boycott goes ahead. The threat comes during a Turkish currency crisis that has seen the lira’s value collapse against the U.S. dollar.

AP reports he said: “If they have the iPhone, there is Samsung elsewhere. We have Vestel.” It was unclear how Erdogan intended to enforce the boycott.

Turkish Airlines also announced on Twitter that it would join a campaign circulating on social media with a hashtag #ABDyeReklamVerme (don’t give ads to America).

“We, as the Turkish Airlines, stand by our state and our people. Necessary instructions on the issue have been issued to our agencies,” Yahya Ustun, spokesman for the country’s flag-carrier, wrote on Twitter.

Mr. Erdogan said Turkey was facing an “economic attack” and a “bigger, deeper operation”.

“They don’t hesitate to use the economy as a weapon,” he said. “What do you want to do? What do you want to achieve?” he added, referring to the US.

Turkey’s lira currency has been falling steadily for the last year because of a clearly stated view by Mr. Erdogan that interest rates are “evil,” and because he has been controlling Turkey’s central bank consistent with that belief.

The lira has already lost 40 percent of its value in the past month. On Friday, the currency fell another 20 percent, before settling at being down 14 percent from Thursday’s level.

Mr. Erdogan last week renewed a call for Turks to convert their dollars into the Turkish lira, to help underwite  the currency’s value.

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11-Year-Old Hacks into Mock Florida Election Results Website in Under 10 Minutes

An 11-year-old boy hacked into a mock-up of a Florida state election website to change the voting results in under ten minutes at the world’s largest yearly hacking convention on Friday.

Organizers of the event, DEFCON 26, said in a statement that 11-year-old Emmett Brewer was one out of 50 children participating in the challenge to achieve the feat in such a short amount of time.

Brewer, along with the other children between the ages of eight to 16 years old, participated in the “DEFCON Voting Machine Hacking Village,” which allowed the children to change candidate names, party names, and vote count totals.

Nico Sell, one of the organizers of the event who also co-founded an organization which teaches kids how to become hackers, said an 11-year-old girl was also able to hack into the same mock Florida election website in about 15 minutes, tripling the vote totals on the site.

“These are very accurate replicas of all of the sites,” Sell told PBS NewsHour Sunday. “These things should not be easy enough for an 8-year-old kid to hack within 30 minutes, it’s negligent for us as a society.”

Sell said the idea for the event came about in 2017 after adult hackers breached similar voting sites in under five minutes, adding that the exercise proved that U.S. voting machines are so easy to hack into that a child could do it.

“I think the general public does not understand how large a threat this is, and how serious a situation that we’re in right now with our democracy,” she said.

One digital firm showed just how easy it is to hack into a voting machine by releasing a video showing how it is done. In 2016, digital security firm Cylance took a voting machine used in the 2008 presidential election to demonstrate how easy it is to manipulate voter data.

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AWR Hawkins: Marjory Stoneman Douglas Hires 15 Guards Without Guns

The February 14, 2018, attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was an act of evil carried out by a determined man, but it was also a tragedy that might have been prevented – or at least cut short – by serious safety precautions and/or a better law enforcement response. AWR discusses this with school safety proponent Hunter Pollack on this week’s Bullets.

Pollack, who lost his sister in the shooting, observes that the school is on no better footing to thwart an attack today that it was on February 14.

Listen now to hear Pollack talk about how the school has hired security personnel armed with radios, instead of guns, and flip-flopped on its decision to install metal detectors.

Also, hear AWR discuss the top gun news of the week and share more self-defense stories brought to you by the Second Amendment.

 

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Japanese Economist Uses Sweden as Example in Warning Against Mass Migration

A Japanese economist has warned that Japan should use caution following a loosening of regulations on foreign labourers claiming that the country should not open the gates to mass migration as Sweden has in the recent past.

Economist Takaaki Mitsuhashi commented on the new reforms, which aim to combat the rapidly ageing Japanese workforce, saying that while he welcomed foreigners into Japan, he did not want to see the country follow the path of Sweden, Finnish broadcaster Yleisradio Oy reports.

“Foreigners, mainly from Africa and the Middle East, have settled in districts that they have since completely taken over,” Mitsuhashi said and added that police refuse to enter certain areas.

While police are still present in so-called no-go areas, there have been multiple occasions where they, and other emergency services, have been attacked and have even delayed responding to emergency calls while waiting for backup to arrive, feeling unable to proceed in smaller numbers into the areas.

Mitsuhashi visited the no-go Stockholm suburb of Husby, where local businesses have experienced difficulty hiring security guards due to crime and violence, describing his impressions of the area saying, “whatever it was, it was not Sweden. We do not want this development in Japan.”

“Look at how it has been for Sweden, so you get a good picture of how it becomes when you open the country for immigration. Sweden and Japan have about the same basic conditions, high gross domestic product and free, democratic societies,” he added.

Another issue facing Sweden but not mentioned by Mitsuhashi is the much higher rate of unemployment among Swedish residents from foreign backgrounds compared to the native population.

A report last year showed that the unemployment rate for native Swedes was around 3.9 percent, while the foreign-born unemployment rate topped 21.8 percent.

A study released last year by the Swedish Expert Group on Public Finance (ESO) also showed that migrant children arriving in the country after age seven were also performing so poorly in schools that half were unable to pass grade nine.

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Prosecutors: Special Needs Boy Died In ‘Extremist Muslim’ Exorcism At New Mexico Compound

More details have emerged about the apparent tragic fate of the 3-year-old special needs boy at the center of a case against a group described by authorities as following an “extremist” brand of the Muslim faith which law enforcement found training with firearms at a compound in New Mexico earlier this month.

Prosecutors say that the zealous family of Siraj Wahhaj — which includes his self-described “Muslim wife” Jany Leveille, his sisters Hujrah and Subhannah, and his brother-in-law Lucas Morten — were training eleven children to join them as “martyrs.” The children were found malnourished, some reportedly clutching to ammo when authorities arrived. The remains of what authorities believe to be the body of the special needs son of Siraj was uncovered and awaits positive identification.

The five adults face charges of child abuse, to which they have pleaded not guilty.

“This was not a camping trip and this was not a simple homesteading, the kind that many people do in New Mexico,” said prosecutor Timothy Hasson, CNN reports. “The evidence as a whole suggests that this family was on a mission. And it was a violent one, and it was a dangerous one.” The prosecution says that Morten once passed on a letter to Wahhaj’s brother inviting him to join the extremist group to “die as a martyr,” urging him to “take all your money out of the bank and bring your guns.”

On Monday, more details emerged about the family’s alleged beliefs about and treatment of Siraj’s special needs son, Abdul-Ghani, whom Siraj allegedly abducted from his mother in Georgia. According to witnesses, the family believed the body of Abdul-Ghani was inhabited by demons and that once the family had exorcized them, the boy would return as Jesus four months later to instruct the family which institutions they should attack.

“Those who did not believe ‘their message’ would be killed or detained ‘until they believed,’ a teenager on the compound said, according to a FBI agent,” CNN reports. After interviewing two of the children (ages 13 and 15) found at the compound, FBI agent Travis Taylor testified about the events leading up to the apparent death of the special needs boy. CNN reports:

According to one of the children, the family arrived in New Mexico sometime in January, Taylor said. The rituals on Abdul-Ghani continued in New Mexico at Leveille’s direction, the FBI agent said. According to one of the teens, Leveille believed that Abdul-Ghani was her baby and Ramzi had stolen him from her womb using black magic, Taylor said.

In the rituals, which went on for several days, Abdul-Ghani’s father recited verses from the Quran and held his hand on the boy’s forehead as he foamed from the mouth, Taylor said. During one of those rituals, according to the children, Abdul-Ghani passed out and his heart stopped beating, the agent testified.

He has passed on, Taylor said, but the family believed he had already died and that his family was inhabited by demons. They believed he would return four months later as Jesus and lead them on their mission, Taylor said.

Taylor said that after the boy died, the family washed his body and wrapped him in sheets, eventually moving the deteriorating body to a tunnel beneath the compound, where the adults would wash his body every day in preparation for his return as Jesus.

Wahhaj’s lawyer Thomas Clark couched the defense in terms of racial and religious discrimination. “If these were white people of a Christian faith who owned guns, that’s not a big deal because there’s a Second Amendment right to own firearms in this country,” said Clark. “If these were white Christians, faith healing is of no consequence because we have freedom of religion in this country. But they look different and they worship differently from the rest of us.”

Though she described the case as “troubling, definitely,” on Monday Judge Sarah Backus denied the prosecution’s request to hold the defendants until the trial.

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Trump Haters Meet the Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Hollywood’s Walk of Fame started in the late 1950s to honor accomplished members of the entertainment industry.  On average, they add two new stars each month.  As Hollywood is a bastion of political correctness and virtue-signaling, it was inevitable that the city would find itself butting heads with President Trump.


Trump has a star on the Walk of Fame, which has been vandalized several times over the past few weeks.  The West Hollywood city council, rather than banning plastic straws, voted unanimously to remove Trump’s star from the famous walk.



Fortunately, it’s an empty gesture, much like when Boulder, Colorado declared itself a nuclear-free zone – as if, during a real war, China or Russia would take great care to steer nuclear missiles to Denver or Fort Collins rather than to Boulder.


West Hollywood has no jurisdiction over the Walk of Fame, as it has been run by the Chamber of Commerce since 1962, which has been “[r]esisting public pressure to remove stars for disgraced honorees such as Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein, and Kevin Spacey, saying that a star is part of ‘the historic fabric’ of the site.”


It’s nice to see that Hollywood has its priorities in order.  The president, standing up for America, trying to secure its borders and keep America safe, is somehow evil, but the truly evil #MeToo predators continue to be honored by the Hollywood elites.


In response to continued vandalism of Trump’s Walk of Fame star, a funny thing happened.  A few days ago, multiple Trump stars began appearing on the walk, placed on blank squares.  An anonymous street artist and his allies are sending a message to the Hollywood hypocrites: “Rip up the president’s Walk of Fame star or try to have it removed – like you’re the mayor of West Hollywood or something – and 30 more will pop up.”


This reminded me of a time long ago, when Hollywood made good and decent movies, designed to entertain, rather than push some sociopolitical agenda.  Walt Disney was part of this golden age of Hollywood.  One of his early movies was Fantasia, a 1940 film, which set short animated pieces to famous classical music scores.


One of the more famous segments was “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” featuring Mickey Mouse.  Mickey, as the apprentice, is tasked with the chore of fetching buckets of water.  To spare himself the labor, he casts a spell so a broom can fetch the water for him.  Mickey falls asleep while the broom toils away, flooding the sorcerer’s chambers.


Unable to break the spell, Mickey chops the broom into pieces.  But each splinter comes to life as a new broom, fetching more water, worsening the flooding, until the sorcerer returns to break the spell.  You can watch the scene here.


Mickey Mouse’s adventure is playing out with Trump’s Hollywood star.  Trump-haters, using a pickaxe, rather than Mickey’s axe, destroyed Trump’s star, only to have it multiply.  Bigly.


This is a common theme of the Trump presidency.  Attempts to destroy him seem only to leave him stronger.  Beginning before he was even elected, the “Access Hollywood” tape was Trump’s October surprise, sure to derail his campaign.  What happened?  Trump happened, and he was elected.


The Deep State conspired to pave the way for Hillary Clinton by exonerating her of crimes committed and instead indicting Trump for crimes not committed, crippling his presidency with a special counsel investigating everything except what he was charged with investigating, casting doubt over the legitimacy of Trump’s election and presidency.


Despite efforts of the Clinton-Obama Deep State cabal to take an axe to President Trump, all they have done is create greater support for him.  Splinters of Mickey Mouse’s broom are rising up in myriad ways in support of the president.


Black support for President Trump has doubled since last year.  This is a core Democrat constituency, and such an electoral shift spells doom for Democrat electoral prospects.


The left cries “Trump is a racist” non-stop on cable news shows, taking an axe to the Trump broom.  Yet the splinters come to life in the form of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, pop culture icons and Instagram celebrities, joining the Trump train – not to mention Diamond and Silk, Candace Owens, and others.


The ultimate splinters from the axed Fantasia broom are the Q phenomenon.  This is an as of yet unidentified group of presumed military intelligence insiders with White House access.  Some call it a cult, despite the absence of a leader.  Others call it LARPing or basically a joke, yet Q messages display an uncanny knack for predicting future events in a timely and accurate fashion.


Make of it what you want, but Q represents thousands or millions of splinters of Mickey’s axed broom, individuals doing their own research based on “Q drops,” nuggets of open-sourced information that can be investigated, verified, and disseminated.  Most of this is done anonymously, away from prying eyes or interference of the Deep State actors Q is exposing.


Last are the media, with their relentless attacks on President Trump, over 90 percent negative coverage.  They give little, if any, credit for Trump’s accomplishments, especially on the economy and jobs, instead calling him a racist, a traitor, a Russian spy, or just an ignorant rube.


Each swipe of the media axe at the president creates more disdain for and distrust of the media, and more sympathy and support of the president.  Splinters of the chopped broom are the Americans who mock big media at rallies and on social media.


From the Hollywood star to Q to the media, efforts of the left and other assorted Trump-haters simply chop the broom into splinters, creating more support, the opposite of the intended goal.  Mickey Mouse set forces in motion that took on a life of their own, with unintended and unforeseen consequences far beyond his original goal.


Trump-haters are beginning to experience much the same.  Oblivious to what they have set into motion, they will be ill prepared for the consequences.  For the rest of us, pass the popcorn as the show is just beginning.  


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Hollywood’s Walk of Fame started in the late 1950s to honor accomplished members of the entertainment industry.  On average, they add two new stars each month.  As Hollywood is a bastion of political correctness and virtue-signaling, it was inevitable that the city would find itself butting heads with President Trump.


Trump has a star on the Walk of Fame, which has been vandalized several times over the past few weeks.  The West Hollywood city council, rather than banning plastic straws, voted unanimously to remove Trump’s star from the famous walk.


Fortunately, it’s an empty gesture, much like when Boulder, Colorado declared itself a nuclear-free zone – as if, during a real war, China or Russia would take great care to steer nuclear missiles to Denver or Fort Collins rather than to Boulder.


West Hollywood has no jurisdiction over the Walk of Fame, as it has been run by the Chamber of Commerce since 1962, which has been “[r]esisting public pressure to remove stars for disgraced honorees such as Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein, and Kevin Spacey, saying that a star is part of ‘the historic fabric’ of the site.”


It’s nice to see that Hollywood has its priorities in order.  The president, standing up for America, trying to secure its borders and keep America safe, is somehow evil, but the truly evil #MeToo predators continue to be honored by the Hollywood elites.


In response to continued vandalism of Trump’s Walk of Fame star, a funny thing happened.  A few days ago, multiple Trump stars began appearing on the walk, placed on blank squares.  An anonymous street artist and his allies are sending a message to the Hollywood hypocrites: “Rip up the president’s Walk of Fame star or try to have it removed – like you’re the mayor of West Hollywood or something – and 30 more will pop up.”


This reminded me of a time long ago, when Hollywood made good and decent movies, designed to entertain, rather than push some sociopolitical agenda.  Walt Disney was part of this golden age of Hollywood.  One of his early movies was Fantasia, a 1940 film, which set short animated pieces to famous classical music scores.


One of the more famous segments was “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” featuring Mickey Mouse.  Mickey, as the apprentice, is tasked with the chore of fetching buckets of water.  To spare himself the labor, he casts a spell so a broom can fetch the water for him.  Mickey falls asleep while the broom toils away, flooding the sorcerer’s chambers.


Unable to break the spell, Mickey chops the broom into pieces.  But each splinter comes to life as a new broom, fetching more water, worsening the flooding, until the sorcerer returns to break the spell.  You can watch the scene here.


Mickey Mouse’s adventure is playing out with Trump’s Hollywood star.  Trump-haters, using a pickaxe, rather than Mickey’s axe, destroyed Trump’s star, only to have it multiply.  Bigly.


This is a common theme of the Trump presidency.  Attempts to destroy him seem only to leave him stronger.  Beginning before he was even elected, the “Access Hollywood” tape was Trump’s October surprise, sure to derail his campaign.  What happened?  Trump happened, and he was elected.


The Deep State conspired to pave the way for Hillary Clinton by exonerating her of crimes committed and instead indicting Trump for crimes not committed, crippling his presidency with a special counsel investigating everything except what he was charged with investigating, casting doubt over the legitimacy of Trump’s election and presidency.


Despite efforts of the Clinton-Obama Deep State cabal to take an axe to President Trump, all they have done is create greater support for him.  Splinters of Mickey Mouse’s broom are rising up in myriad ways in support of the president.


Black support for President Trump has doubled since last year.  This is a core Democrat constituency, and such an electoral shift spells doom for Democrat electoral prospects.


The left cries “Trump is a racist” non-stop on cable news shows, taking an axe to the Trump broom.  Yet the splinters come to life in the form of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, pop culture icons and Instagram celebrities, joining the Trump train – not to mention Diamond and Silk, Candace Owens, and others.


The ultimate splinters from the axed Fantasia broom are the Q phenomenon.  This is an as of yet unidentified group of presumed military intelligence insiders with White House access.  Some call it a cult, despite the absence of a leader.  Others call it LARPing or basically a joke, yet Q messages display an uncanny knack for predicting future events in a timely and accurate fashion.


Make of it what you want, but Q represents thousands or millions of splinters of Mickey’s axed broom, individuals doing their own research based on “Q drops,” nuggets of open-sourced information that can be investigated, verified, and disseminated.  Most of this is done anonymously, away from prying eyes or interference of the Deep State actors Q is exposing.


Last are the media, with their relentless attacks on President Trump, over 90 percent negative coverage.  They give little, if any, credit for Trump’s accomplishments, especially on the economy and jobs, instead calling him a racist, a traitor, a Russian spy, or just an ignorant rube.


Each swipe of the media axe at the president creates more disdain for and distrust of the media, and more sympathy and support of the president.  Splinters of the chopped broom are the Americans who mock big media at rallies and on social media.


From the Hollywood star to Q to the media, efforts of the left and other assorted Trump-haters simply chop the broom into splinters, creating more support, the opposite of the intended goal.  Mickey Mouse set forces in motion that took on a life of their own, with unintended and unforeseen consequences far beyond his original goal.


Trump-haters are beginning to experience much the same.  Oblivious to what they have set into motion, they will be ill prepared for the consequences.  For the rest of us, pass the popcorn as the show is just beginning.  


Brian C Joondeph, M.D., MPS is a Denver-based physician and writer.  Follow him on Facebook,  LinkedIn, and Twitter.




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Exclusive – Elizabeth Heng: Facebook Is ‘Censoring the Voices of Americans Who Have Different Views’

Elizabeth Heng, the Republican nominee running to represent California’s 16th Congressional District, said Facebook is “censoring the voices of Americans” with non-leftist views.

She offered her remarks in an interview with Breitbart News Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak during last Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight.

Heng warned of the growing power over the dissemination of information concentrated in the hands of large technology firms. Last week, Facebook blocked an advertisement of Heng’s referencing communist-driven atrocities in Cambodia, her parents’ country of origin. The ad was subsequently restored following Breitbart News’s reporting of Facebook’s political censorship.

“There was no reason given [by Faceook for banning my ad],” said Heng. “They just said that it was, ‘shocking, disrespectful, or sensational content.’ For me, it’s maddening to feel like my story is being silenced on Facebook or any other public platform; censoring the voices of Americans who have different views or just want to tell their stories. It’s not right, and Facebook needs to be held accountable.”

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Heng added, “I only received a message that I posted on Facebook of them saying that it was ‘shocking, disrespectful, or sensational,’ and they never explained anything. I would assume it’s from the beginning of the ad where I had glimpses of the reality of genocide, but those were just photos.”

Hang reflect on her parents’ escape from communism in Cambodia: “My parents had to live through the terror of that, and for any liberal tech giant to be able to decide what history and story gets to live on, I think is inappropriate on many levels. My family left communism, and in countries such as Cambodia during that time, they were silenced, being  here in the United States with freedom of speech, I am going to continue talking about this message, because it’s incredibly important.”

Pollak asked Heng if defense of First Amendment protections for free speech and expression is an important issue in forthcoming midterm elections.

“I think this is going to be an important topic,” replied Heng. “When I chose to enter into this race as a candidate, I expected to discuss big issues and tell my story, but Facebook’s decision to take away my voice and my ability to tell that story is yet another example of the liberal establishment, like Nancy Pelosi, shutting down Republicans and conservatives. I’m running to fight against extremism in the tech industry and in D.C.”

Heng continued, “I support the president. It is undeniable that our economy is at an all-time high and that our unemployment rate is at an all-time low.”

Heng described communism and socialism as political systems destined to fail: “My parents saw firsthand how communism and socialism absolutely do not work. Socialism does not work anywhere in this world, and it’s so important for me to protect the fundamental values in a capitalistic market that have allowed our country to flourish.”

Hend linked left-wing ideology with the Obama administration: “Failed policies of the last eight years of what the previous administration did to our country and this community.”

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