Oreos: Not just a cookie anymore, now a political statement

Just when you thought it was safe to dunk a delicious cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookie into an ice cold glass of milk, it happens. Your favorite guilty pleasure has gone political. Why, Nabisco, why?

Oreos, the best-selling cookie in the United States, is baking up a special edition of the tasty treats in partnership with the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). The purpose of the limited joint venture is to indoctrinate school children on the use of pronouns as they relate to the LGBTQ community.

Share your pronouns with #Pride! The “pronoun packs” will be given to the teachers free of charge. Nabisco and the other parent companies of Oreos, Cadbury, and Mondelez International, have made a political decision to link arms with the NCTE and indoctrinate America’s schoolchildren into the transgender movement. You will be made to think that sexuality is fluid and gender is not limited to male and female even if it requires your children to be used as pawns. The party of science is willing to deny the existence of biological certainties, like chromosomes, in order to appease the politically woke.

As Joy Pullman points out in her piece at The Federalist the NCTE is a “massive organization” with influence over millions of teachers. They are far left political activists.

NCTE is the National Council of Teachers of English. While it sounds benign, this massive organization that affects millions of teachers all over the country—and helped write Common Core—has been politically far leftist for decades. For example, the organization came out against allowing trained teachers to defend themselves from active shooters using licensed guns. Its influence on actual English curriculum has been to degrade instruction with politicization and gobbledygook, according to the most rigorous research. Yet still they keep being treated as credible, just like all the other corrupt education institutions in this country.

You won’t find this rainbow Oreo on your grocer’s shelf. They are only being given away at a large LGBT celebration festival. Nabisco gets all the publicity from a one-time event without any of the standard outrages from consumers unwilling to allow companies to shove a political agenda down their throats, at least not without a fight. It is quite a sneaky sop to our social justice warrior betters. I don’t care which pronoun an adult uses, to be honest, it can be he, she, or (Cousin) It, but I do object when children are used for what amounts to political propaganda, especially at the hands of America’s school teachers. Especially in the case of the youngest students, leave the kids alone.

Besides pandering to the LGBTQ social engineers, Mondelez International is buying up solar power – enough to “produce 10 billion Oreo cookies” a year. How about a little global warming mantra with your cookies?

By agreeing to buy power from an under-construction Texas solar farm, the maker of Cadbury chocolate and Ritz crackers expects to slash 80,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions — or roughly 5% of the company’s 2013 global manufacturing emissions.

The renewable energy purchase reflects Mondelez’s desire to protect its agriculture supply chain from the threat of climate change, the company told CNN Business.

Mondelez International is a part of the “green the grid” movement, along with Facebook, General Motors, Adobe, and Bloomberg to name other big companies.

Those power purchase agreements help pave the way for new renewable energy projects like the Roadrunner solar farm getting built by Enel Green Power North America in Texas, which is where Mondelez is buying solar power.

“Renewables are becoming increasingly price competitive. We’re seeking to support that by scaling up,” Horrell said.

Mondelez estimates the renewable energy purchased is enough to produce more than 50% of all Oreo cookies consumed in the United States annually, or roughly 10 billion cookies.

“The more renewable energy that is produced, the more that fossil fuels are crowded out. These deals work in that direction,” Georgios Papadimitriou, head of Enel Green Power North America, told CNN Business.

I don’t have a problem with companies looking to use renewable energy but who is going to tell them that fossil fuels make the solar industry possible?

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The American left is seriously out of control. Now it is dangerous

The Left’s hysteria over Trump’s victory in 2016 has escalated into something quite beyond mere hysteria.  Now the leftists are well and truly dangerous.  Antifa, the fascist organization that protests anything and everything with which it disagrees, is violent, very violent.  These people show up with weapons, wearing masks, and attack anyone they perceive to be in opposition to their own warped ideology.

CNN has long defended the group as good guys, social justice warriors.  That is how off the rails CNN is.  Like Antifa, CNN is officially and openly anti-American.  Over the weekend in Portland, Quillette journalist Andy Ngo was badly beaten, seriously injured, by a group of these thugs and got no help from the Portland police, who actually made him walk back through the mob to seek help.

 

Portland may be ground zero for the worst of leftist brutality at the moment, but the Left is definitely ramping up its malicious intolerance.  As everyone who cares to look knows, there have been many incidents of violence against Trump-supporters around the country, often for just wearing a red hat.

Also over the weekend, the supercilious owner of the Red Hen, the Lexington, Va. restaurant that asked Sarah Sanders and her family to leave her establishment a year ago, penned an op-ed in the WaPo defending her despicable manners.  (What does this tell us about the WaPo?  It is not a news outlet; it’s a hateful screed.)  Her column is predictably a snooty defense of her rudeness.  She complains of being “branded a racist, a bigot and a hypocrite.”  Clearly, she is all those things.  How is what she did at all different from the Jim Crow racists who refused to allow blacks or gays in their cafés and hotels in the fifties?  It’s exactly the same thing.  Wilkerson, this owner of the Red Hen, thinks Trump-supporters should not venture out to eat, that they “should dine at home.”  Oh, the tolerant Left.

No one can forget Maxine Waters calling out her supporters to “get in their faces,” to harass Trump-supporters “wherever you run into them.”  But then Obama, he with the Nobel Peace Prize, had advocated: “If they bring a knife to fight, you bring a gun.”  This from the man who wants to confiscate guns from all law-abiding Americans.

Did anyone on the left criticize Waters’s remarks?  Or Obama’s?  No.  They are all on the same page.  Hillary called Trump-supporters a “basket of deplorables,” and Joe Biden called them the “dregs of society.”  Charitable people?  Not exactly.  John Hinderaker wrote:

The Democratic Party has abandoned all norms of civility and constitutional government. Somehow, though, liberals believe they are immune from having to live by their own ‘new rules.’ They sow the wind, but think they never will reap the whirlwind.

The Trump-haters counted on the Mueller Report to vindicate their unbridled loathing of the man.  Since that failed, their brains have dissolved into puddles of goo.  Their propensity to violence, or at least excusing it, has intensified.  They think Mueller showing up to testify will be the end run around the actual report, which was 448-pages of innuendo, an embarrassment to legal scholars.  They will likely try to prevent the Republicans from asking the many questions that need to be answered.  For example, it was collusion with Russia that was the reason for the special counsel’s investigation, yet he never looked into Clinton’s and the DNC’s having commissioned the phony dossier that was the basis of their FISA warrants.  The report barely mentions this sham phonied up smear.  That fact alone makes the entire report a joke, a grand cover-up.

The Left, aside from approving of all manner of violence in service of its agenda and its anger, has been willing to break every law on the books, abrogate every word of the Constitution to get its way and defend those who do these terrible things.  But Trump is still the president and a damn good one.  That is what really makes them mad as a bag of ferrets.

They have all melted down over Trump’s meet-and-greet at the DMZ with little Kim.  Horrified they are that he was so bold as to even suggest such a thing.  Doesn’t he know that Kim is a brutal dictator?  Uh, yeah, he absolutely does.  He’s trying a different tack, one no previous president has tried.

The Left, though, is afraid it might work.  These people are already enraged by all his successes: the economy, energy independence, deregulation, getting Mexico to police its own border, getting China to the table, a soaring stock market, and record-low unemployment for blacks and Hispanics.  If he seduces little Kim into some kind of de-nuclearization deal, they will surely self-destruct.  It’s anyone’s guess how they will act out then.

The Democrat debates of last week were nothing but a contest: which candidate is the most willing to sell out America?  Turns out every one of them is champing at the bit to do just that, along with their partners in crime in Congress like Ocasio-Cortez and her coterie of fellow traitors to this country.  They all want American citizens to pay all expenses for the millions of illegals who have fled here for the financial support and free medical care the Democrats promise.

America as founded is under attack by a vicious Left that hates Trump much, much more than it loves or respects the United States. 

“A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.” —Cicero

The Left has shown its true colors.  We are one election away from losing our country…and leftists cheat.

The Left’s hysteria over Trump’s victory in 2016 has escalated into something quite beyond mere hysteria.  Now the leftists are well and truly dangerous.  Antifa, the fascist organization that protests anything and everything with which it disagrees, is violent, very violent.  These people show up with weapons, wearing masks, and attack anyone they perceive to be in opposition to their own warped ideology.

CNN has long defended the group as good guys, social justice warriors.  That is how off the rails CNN is.  Like Antifa, CNN is officially and openly anti-American.  Over the weekend in Portland, Quillette journalist Andy Ngo was badly beaten, seriously injured, by a group of these thugs and got no help from the Portland police, who actually made him walk back through the mob to seek help.


Antifa thug throwing a rock at Andy Ngo (YouTube screen grab, cropped).

 

Portland may be ground zero for the worst of leftist brutality at the moment, but the Left is definitely ramping up its malicious intolerance.  As everyone who cares to look knows, there have been many incidents of violence against Trump-supporters around the country, often for just wearing a red hat.

Also over the weekend, the supercilious owner of the Red Hen, the Lexington, Va. restaurant that asked Sarah Sanders and her family to leave her establishment a year ago, penned an op-ed in the WaPo defending her despicable manners.  (What does this tell us about the WaPo?  It is not a news outlet; it’s a hateful screed.)  Her column is predictably a snooty defense of her rudeness.  She complains of being “branded a racist, a bigot and a hypocrite.”  Clearly, she is all those things.  How is what she did at all different from the Jim Crow racists who refused to allow blacks or gays in their cafés and hotels in the fifties?  It’s exactly the same thing.  Wilkerson, this owner of the Red Hen, thinks Trump-supporters should not venture out to eat, that they “should dine at home.”  Oh, the tolerant Left.

No one can forget Maxine Waters calling out her supporters to “get in their faces,” to harass Trump-supporters “wherever you run into them.”  But then Obama, he with the Nobel Peace Prize, had advocated: “If they bring a knife to fight, you bring a gun.”  This from the man who wants to confiscate guns from all law-abiding Americans.

Did anyone on the left criticize Waters’s remarks?  Or Obama’s?  No.  They are all on the same page.  Hillary called Trump-supporters a “basket of deplorables,” and Joe Biden called them the “dregs of society.”  Charitable people?  Not exactly.  John Hinderaker wrote:

The Democratic Party has abandoned all norms of civility and constitutional government. Somehow, though, liberals believe they are immune from having to live by their own ‘new rules.’ They sow the wind, but think they never will reap the whirlwind.

The Trump-haters counted on the Mueller Report to vindicate their unbridled loathing of the man.  Since that failed, their brains have dissolved into puddles of goo.  Their propensity to violence, or at least excusing it, has intensified.  They think Mueller showing up to testify will be the end run around the actual report, which was 448-pages of innuendo, an embarrassment to legal scholars.  They will likely try to prevent the Republicans from asking the many questions that need to be answered.  For example, it was collusion with Russia that was the reason for the special counsel’s investigation, yet he never looked into Clinton’s and the DNC’s having commissioned the phony dossier that was the basis of their FISA warrants.  The report barely mentions this sham phonied up smear.  That fact alone makes the entire report a joke, a grand cover-up.

The Left, aside from approving of all manner of violence in service of its agenda and its anger, has been willing to break every law on the books, abrogate every word of the Constitution to get its way and defend those who do these terrible things.  But Trump is still the president and a damn good one.  That is what really makes them mad as a bag of ferrets.

They have all melted down over Trump’s meet-and-greet at the DMZ with little Kim.  Horrified they are that he was so bold as to even suggest such a thing.  Doesn’t he know that Kim is a brutal dictator?  Uh, yeah, he absolutely does.  He’s trying a different tack, one no previous president has tried.

The Left, though, is afraid it might work.  These people are already enraged by all his successes: the economy, energy independence, deregulation, getting Mexico to police its own border, getting China to the table, a soaring stock market, and record-low unemployment for blacks and Hispanics.  If he seduces little Kim into some kind of de-nuclearization deal, they will surely self-destruct.  It’s anyone’s guess how they will act out then.

The Democrat debates of last week were nothing but a contest: which candidate is the most willing to sell out America?  Turns out every one of them is champing at the bit to do just that, along with their partners in crime in Congress like Ocasio-Cortez and her coterie of fellow traitors to this country.  They all want American citizens to pay all expenses for the millions of illegals who have fled here for the financial support and free medical care the Democrats promise.

America as founded is under attack by a vicious Left that hates Trump much, much more than it loves or respects the United States. 

“A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.” —Cicero

The Left has shown its true colors.  We are one election away from losing our country…and leftists cheat.

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Doug Ducey to Yank AZ Nike Plant Incentives After ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Shoes Pulled

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R) announced Tuesday morning he has directed the Arizona Commerce Authority to cancel all financial incentives for Nike’s planned manufacturing plant in the state.

Ducey said his decision was made in response to a Wall Street Journal report stating former NFL anthem-protester and Nike pitchman Colin Kaepernick pressured Nike to pull its America-themed 4th of July sneakers featuring the “Betsy Ross” flag because he and others found the design to be offensive. “Nike has chosen not to release the Air Max 1 Quick Strike Fourth of July as it featured an old version of the American flag,” a company spokesperson said in a statement to CNN of the decision.

In a series of tweets, Ducey expressed his disappointed in Nike’s decision to nix the shoes and explained his decision to withdraw incentives to the company.

“Words cannot express my disappointment at this terrible decision. I am embarrassed for Nike,” Ducey wrote on Twitter. “Nike is an iconic American brand and American company. This country, our system of government and free enterprise have allowed them to prosper and flourish.”

“Instead of celebrating American history the week of our nation’s independence, Nike has apparently decided that Betsy Ross is unworthy, and has bowed to the current onslaught of political correctness and historical revisionism. It is a shameful retreat for the company. American businesses should be proud of our country’s history, not abandoning it,” the Arizona Governor continued. “Nike has made its decision, and now we’re making ours. I’ve ordered the Arizona Commerce Authority to withdraw all financial incentive dollars under their discretion that the State was providing for the company to locate here. Arizona’s economy is doing just fine without Nike. We don’t need to suck up to companies that consciously denigrate our nation’s history.

“And finally, it shouldn’t take a controversy over a shoe for our kids to know who Betsy Ross is. A founding mother. Her story should be taught in all American schools. In the meantime, it’s worth googling her,” he added.

According to the Arizona Republic, Nike has plans to invest at least $184.5 million into the plant. The move is estimated to create more than 500 full-time jobs as well as $7.7 million in direct revenue for the area. The plant’s overall economic impact is said to be valued at more than $483 million in its first five years of operation.

Kaepernick, then with the San Francisco 49ers, sparked a wave of protests about social and racial injustice in 2016 by kneeling during the national anthem at games. Since then, Nike hired him to be the face of its “Just Do It” ad campaign with the slogan: “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.”

The Journal previously reported,“The campaign generated a backlash among some consumers, who began torching Nike shoes and cutting its swoosh logo out of gear. The protests were countered by expressions of support for Nike.

“Since the ad was released, Nike has posted higher sales, boosted by strong demand in both the U.S. and China. In the fourth quarter, sales rose 4% to $10.18 billion. Its share price has climbed more than 15% so far this year,” the newspaper added.

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Mexico Confirms: Illegals Trying To Buy Children To Cross Border

Verifying claims by U.S. border authorities that some illegal immigrants are using children who aren’t theirs to try to enter the United States, Mexican authorities have come forward to assert that illegal immigrants in Tijuana are preying on vulnerable single mothers in shelters by suggesting they sell their children to them.

The Seattle Times reports that Tijuana law enforcement authorities are “warning migrant mothers to keep their children close by and supervised, after reports of men offering to purchase migrant children in order to cross.” The Seattle Times quoted one woman from Honduras confessing, “I can’t go to work because I can’t take my eyes off my boys,” adding that the men have offered roughly $350 to buy children at the Iglesia Embajadores de Jesus shelter in Tijuana. She concluded, “They want to rob our kids so they can cross into the United States.”

Pastor Gustavo Banda, who supervises the Iglesia Embajadores de Jesus shelter and secures the shelter with a chain lock, stated, “These are cases of desperation. Of course, the women have not accepted any of these offers, but clearly this is a huge concern because of the danger to the children.”

When she served as Homeland Security Secretary in 2018, Kirstjen Nielsen was slammed for acknowledging the reality of the problem. She told the National Sheriffs’ Association:

Let me take a minute to walk you through a few of the legal loopholes that DHS must confront every day and the solutions we have requested from Congress. The effects of our broken system are felt in all communities – not just those on the border.

First, under existing law, certain unaccompanied alien children from Mexico and Canada who enter illegally and have no valid claim to stay can be quickly returned home, but unaccompanied children from every other country in the world must be transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) within 72 hours and then released to parents or guardians in the United States. This is a significant pull factor that encourages these children to make the dangerous journey north.

Additionally, when a child is apprehended with their parents, DHS is required – due to various court rulings – to release that child within 20 days. As I mentioned earlier, this effectively creates a “get out of jail free” card for families and groups who pose as families. Unsurprisingly, word of this loophole has spread across the world. From October 2017 to this February, DHS saw a staggering 315 percent increase in illegal aliens fraudulently using children to pose as family units to gain entry into the country, compared to the previous year.

The New York Times admitted, “The numbers Ms. Nielsen cites are correct. Katie Waldman, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, told The New York Times that there were 46 cases of fraudulent family claims in the 2017 fiscal year, which began in October 2016 and ended in September 2017. In just the first five months of the 2018 fiscal year, there were 191 cases — a 315 percent increase.” But then the Times countered, “But those instances of family fraud are a tiny fraction of the total number of families apprehended at the southwestern border: 0.06 percent of nearly 76,000 families in the 2017 fiscal year and 0.6 percent of 31,000 families apprehended in the first five months of the 2018 fiscal year.”

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Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher Found Not Guilty of Killing ISIS Fighter

A military jury has found Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher not guilty on almost all counts, including the killing of a wounded ISIS fighter.

He was only found guilty on one count related to taking a photo of the ISIS fighter’s corpse, which carries a maximum sentence of four months, sources told Breitbart News.

As Gallagher has served nine months in pre-trial confinement, it is likely he will not serve any time in jail at all, sources said.

There were five Marines and two sailors on the jury, including one Navy SEAL.

This is a developing story.

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Arizona Gov Makes Major Announcement After Nike Pulls American Flag Shoe At Colin Kaepernick’s Behest

On Tuesday, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, a Republican, announced that the state would be withdrawing financial incentives promised to Nike over the company dropping an American flag-style shoe, reportedly at the behest of former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

“The Betsy Ross Flag” edition shoe was kicked to the curb by the athletic gear giant after Kaepernick complained about the new sneakers, allegedly calling them “offensive.” The former QB, who famously took a knee during the playing of the national anthem before NFL games, claiming to protest police brutality and racial injustices, signed a multi-million dollar sponsorship deal with Nike, last year.

“Words cannot express my disappointment at this terrible decision. I am embarrassed for Nike,” Gov. Ducey posted in a string of tweets on Tuesday morning. “Nike is an iconic American brand and American company. This country, our system of government and free enterprise have allowed them to prosper and flourish.”

“Instead of celebrating American history the week of our nation’s independence, Nike has apparently decided that Betsy Ross is unworthy, and has bowed to the current onslaught of political correctness and historical revisionism,” the thread continued. “It is a shameful retreat for the company. American businesses should be proud of our country’s history, not abandoning it.”

“Nike has made its decision, and now we’re making ours,” announced Ducey. “I’ve ordered the Arizona Commerce Authority to withdraw all financial incentive dollars under their discretion that the State was providing for the company to locate here. Arizona’s economy is doing just fine without Nike. We don’t need to suck up to companies that consciously denigrate our nation’s history.”

“And finally, it shouldn’t take a controversy over a shoe for our kids to know who Betsy Ross is. A founding mother. Her story should be taught in all American schools. In the meantime, it’s worth googling her,” the Republican concluded.

The shoe protested by Kaepernick included a U.S. flag with 13 white stars in a circle on the heel of the sneaker, “a design created during the American Revolution and commonly referred to as the Betsy Ross flag,” noted The Wall Street Journal in a Monday report.

Nike reportedly planned on investing $185 million to open a manufacturing facility in Goodyear, AZ, which would employ about 500 people, according to city records, the Journal noted, adding that the Goodyear City Council, on Monday, “approved a package of incentives that would reimburse the company about $1 million in planning fees and about $4,000 per full-time employee Nike hires, according to city records.”

Related: Nike Pulls American Flag Sneaker After Complaint From Colin Kaepernick

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Jon Voight Vows to Stand Against Socialism with Gold Star Moms at July 4 ‘Rally for Freedom’

Veteran actor Jon Voight joined the Fox & Friends couch Friday morning and spoke about his intention to attend the pro-freedom, anti-socialist “Rally for Freedom” alongside Gold Star moms at the U.S. Capitol lawn July 4.

Although the Democrat Party appears to be moving in the direction of socialism, not everyone in Hollywood is jumping on board. Actor Jon Voight, an outspoken conservative, talked about his intention to stand alongside Gold Star families at a freedom rally next week. He said he often looks for something to do on patriotic holidays and said Moms for America’s invitation answered his prayer.

“There’s no greater honor than to stand with these moms who have lost their loved ones who sacrificed for our country, for our freedoms, and who love and honor and respect our nation,” he said while sitting next to Gold Star mom Karen Vaughn.

Her son, a Navy SEAL named Aaron Carson, lost his life in 2011.

“He [Trump] is rebuilding the nation my son gave his life for. I feel like our country was rescued in November of 2016 from I don’t even know what, and I will fight with my last breath to get him re-elected in 2020,” she said.

“If they knew anything about the Second World War, they’d know that socialism is a disaster It’s never produced anything anywhere in the world. It’s an economic sinkhole, but it also produces nothing but misery and violence,” Voight added.

The actor was also asked to respond to a snarky tweet from left-wing actress turned activist Alyssa Milano.

“Now I understand why Republicans like to discredit actors and our political views,” she said in a response to a quote showing Voight praising President Trump.

“I have sympathy for people that are in ignorance. It doesn’t scare me. Ignorance doesn’t scare me. I was like that myself. I just root for everybody to come to the truth,” Voight said.

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Bernie Doubles Down on Bleeding Middle Class Dry: ‘Yes, They Will Pay More in Taxes’

This isn’t going to end well — for somebody. Just as Thursday’s Democratic primary debate was getting started, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders made a declaration that should have had all adult Americans reaching for their wallets. And Democrats of a certain age getting very scary flashbacks from the past. Under questioning from NBC’s Savannah Guthrie,…

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Illegals Crossing the Rio Grande Now Have to Contend with Massive Prehistoric Beast

Contrary to liberal talking points, conservatives understand the plight of migrants attempting to cross the southern border. We understand that parents in Central America and Mexico often can’t provide their children the life they want for them, so they risk it all by trekking hundreds or thousands of miles in an attempt to reach the…

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New Report Accuses Google of Election Interference To Stop Trump

Google intends to intervene in the 2020 presidential election in an effort to thwart President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, according to a new report from Project Veritas.

The accusation comes after one of Google’s executives, Jen Gennai, was recorded admitting that Google was focused on “never letting somebody like Donald Trump come to power again.”

Gennai said that Google was “training our algorithms, like, if 2016 happened again, would we have, would the outcome be different?”

The Project Veritas report claims Google’s efforts against President Trump could violate the Federal Election Campaign Act.

Specifically, the report says, “As an incorporated entity, Google is forbidden under the FECA to use resources to ‘never let [] somebody like Donald Trump [to] come to power again.’

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“It is similarly forbidden to promote candidates it would favor. Using its massive resources to alter search results, impact electoral internet traffic, or otherwise attempt to prevent a candidate from winning an election are all illegal acts when done by corporate actors.”

Because FECA prohibits corporations from making in-kind contributions to support or oppose a candidate for office, Google “is forbidden under the FECA to use resources” in this way.

Benjamin Barr, a partner with Statecraft Law who drafted the report for Project Veritas, listed examples of past violations of FECA.

“[I]t would be illegal for a corporation to give free private jet transportation to favored candidates, but not to others,” Barr wrote.

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“Any use of corporate resources to advance or hinder candidates online is equally suspect and should be evaluated. This should be a grave concern for the Department of Justice and the Federal Election Commission.”

The report’s conclusion is printed in clear and concerning language:

“Through Project Veritas’s investigative reporting, it has found:

  • Big tech companies are likely using corporate resources to influence elections.
  • Big tech and social media companies hide behind the grant of congressional immunityunder Section 230 to manipulate speech and search queries.
  • Free speech is being hindered, not advanced, by these trends.”

In a touch of literary flair, Barr closes the report with a quote from George Orwell who said that if “liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

RELATED: This Could Be the Most Damning Google Leak Yet: Internal ‘Resist’ Guide Goes Public

Project Veritas sent Statecraft’s report to 11 members of Congress including Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Josh Hawley.

The Western Journal reached out to Google for comment, but did not hear back in time for publication of this article.

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