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Judicial Watch announced today that it received documents from the office of the Secretary of State of California revealing how state officials pressured social media companies to censor posts about the 2020 election. If true, then private business has become a propaganda arm of the government and the democrats are guilty of subverting democracy. In today’s episode we explore what this means for America.
The American media is no longer neutral, instead, they use their megaphone to influence American power. The ideals of America have been hijacked by people who otherwise dislike or hate American Ideology. The left presents a 'my way or the highway' argument and for decades conservatives have been letting them be—choose to ignore the ignorance. We’ve reached the tipping point and must change our very nature to fight against the liberty stripping ideals. This Podcast is meant as a tool for common sense conservatives to arm themselves against the onslaught of negativity.
You've heard me say private
business should be allowed to
operate as they see fit. But
what if the state coordinates
with private business to
influence an election? Is that
not subversion of democracy?
Welcome to the conservatives
guide to American politics. My
name is Ed Bejarana. And I am an
otherwise happy go lucky
conservative, who enjoys life in
North Idaho with his wife and
two golden retrievers. For all
intents and purposes, I keep to
myself and think you folks
should live and let live, you
know, do unto others as you
would have them do unto you. But
I am frustrated watching the
news. All I really tune in to
see is the weather and maybe
some local interest stories. But
most of what they show me is
their political bias and
socialistic tendencies, the
American media is no longer
neutral. Instead, they use their
megaphone to influence political
power. The ideals of America
have been hijacked by people who
otherwise dislike or hate
American ideology. I started
this podcast as my way to fight
back from my little slice of
America. Call it a rallying cry
for other common sense
conservatives to arm themselves
against the onslaught of
negativity. It is time the
America hating progressives hear
from the silent majority. It is
time for conservatives to stand
up and be heard. So if a
business makes a decision on
their own, I support their
decision that but you know, this
takes a little explaining as a
capitalist, one might conclude I
am always for the rights of
private business. Except in
America, we have laws against
collusion. For example, if a two
gas stations in your town work
together to set their prices,
did you know that's illegal?
Yeah, it's called price fixing.
And here's what the Federal
Trade Commission says about
price fixing. price fixing is an
agreement written verbal or
inferred from conduct among
competitors that raises lowers
or stabilizes prices or
competitive terms. Generally,
the antitrust law requires that
each company established prices
and other terms on its own,
without agreeing with a
competitor. When consumers make
choices about what products and
service to buy, they expect that
the price has been determined
freely on the basis of supply
and demand, not by an agreement
among competitors. When
competitors agreed to restrict
competition, the result is often
higher prices accordingly, price
fixing is a major concern of
government, anti trust
enforcement. And then a little
further in the document. It
reads price fixing relates not
only to prices, but also to
other items that affect prices
to consumers, such as shipping
fees, warranties, discount
programs, or financing rates.
Okay, so for today's episode,
I'm
going to read to you some of the
information from a recent
Judicial Watch report about
social media sites. And then
we'll talk on the other side
about what all of this means.
The Office of election cyber
security in the California
Secretary of State's office,
monitored and tracked social
media posts decided if they were
misinformation, stored the post
in an internal database coded by
threat level, and on 31
different occasions, requested
posts be removed. In 24 cases,
the social media companies
agreed and either took down the
post or flagged them as
misinformation. According to
Jenna dressner, Senior Public
Information Officer for the
Office of election cyber
security, I should ask here who
defines Miss information? But
let's hold that thought. On
September 11 2020. outside
consultant zyk San defaul of SK
DK communications firm provides
the Secretary of State's office
a miss information daily
briefing, which again targets
Judicial Watch president Tom
Fitton, the Secretary of State
Office emails Facebook and
Twitter on April 25 2019, with
requests from the office to
remove tweets and posts for what
they have labeled Miss
information. Now just so I can
catch you up here. These aren't
contiguous statements. I'm I'm
reading from a report that's
highlighting bits and pieces. So
continuing the office emails,
Facebook Attempting to set up a
call to discuss removing future
posts. This 15 minute call with,
quote new Facebook contact for
social media reporting, Javier
Hernandez, politics and
government outreach in quote, in
order to discuss how the office
will report posts to Facebook.
In the email, Facebook outlines
its goals to directly work with
electoral authorities in every
state, so that they can report
instances of voter suppression
on Facebook directly to our
team, so Facebook can look at
them quickly and remove them
from the site in a September
21 2020 email chain with the
subject line election issues.
Jenna dressner in the Secretary
of State's office of cyber
security writes to Christina and
team at Facebook at 11:43am.
Quote, we want to flag this
Instagram Instagram post in
quote. The reply comes from
Facebook community operations
quote, thank you for your
report. We have reviewed the
content and can confirm that the
content has been removed at
12:53pm Dressler writes dressner
writes to press secretary Sam
manhood, Mahood sorry, social
media coordinator, Khaled Jones
and others quote posting from
this morning was removed and
fast.
AKA can update tracker. Okay, in
another one in an email chain on
September 14 2020, titled,
election issue. The Office
internally complains about how
long it takes Facebook to remove
a post and how to speed up this
process. Mahood writes to
dressner it it looks like it
took Facebook two weeks to
respond to Chris. This is way
too long. We should raise to FB
and make sure we know best
method to report posts dressed
there and responds sure I'm 98%
sure this is one you chased with
an email directly to our FB
contacts, which resulted in it
taken down that day. I can
confirm that process works for
future on August 22 2019. Maria
Benson, Director of
Communications for the National
Association of secretaries of
state emails the communication
directors for secretaries of
state's office that Twitter
confirmed that they streamline
their process for government
officials to report quote, Miss
information. Great news, Twitter
is now on board states in their
Miss disinformation partner
Support Portal. Once on board,
you will be able to directly
report Miss slash dis
information instead of having to
submit it to me first. Benson
also gives contact information
for Facebook and Google
complaints and says if any of
the items are reported do not
get prompt attention, please let
me know. And I can also reach
out to the companies. On the
surface, one might conclude the
actions Facebook, Twitter,
YouTube and Google took with the
state and federal government
does not equate to price fixing.
Here's a little bit more
information from the Federal
Trade Commission. And agreement
to restrict production sales or
output is just as illegal as
direct price fixing, because
reducing the supply of a product
or service drives up its price.
The question here is did
Facebook Twitter and Google
collude to restrict production,
sales or output? It's easy to
point to this behavior and say
propaganda when you mix in
Amazon restricting the sale of
books they disagree with and
Google not showing those books
through other means. This is a
violation of antitrust laws. In
the world of politics, lots of
money changes hands for the
purpose of promoting a candidate
or issue if the state of
California or the federal
government has a direct line to
these companies to flag
information as inappropriate.
Are they not also guilty of anti
trust violations? When all the
big tech companies collude to
restrict distribution of
information, a lot of new york
post How are they not guilty of
price fixing? How are they not
guilty of collusion? How are
they not shut down for breaking
the laws? Well, this is why the
title of this episode is free
enterprises gives way to state
propaganda and not big tech
guilty of anti trust violations.
See, big tech is doing the will
of the political party currently
in charge. The people currently
running the government asking
big tech to hamstring their
political competitors. Big tech
complied and continues to
suppress points to disagree with
the Democratic Party orthodoxy.
This means America is no longer
a constitutional republic. It is
a communist or fascist or at
best, a socialist form of
government. You and I are being
directed by the power brokers in
DC and democrat run state
capitals all across America. I
need to throw in just a little
bit here about this term Miss
information. What is
misinformation? If I say
something and you disagree with
it? Does that make my
information wrong? I had a
discussion with a doctor for
another podcast yesterday about
the science is settled. And in
reality, the science is never
settled you and I know that
scientists are always working on
improving or disproving their
conclusions. Science is always
on the move. Remember, people on
planet earth used to think Earth
was flat, then they thought the
sun revolved around the Earth.
Science was settled in those
discussions. In fact, the pope
put people to death when they
disagreed with the orthodoxy.
This term misinformation is the
language police taking control
of our lives. And you and I not
pushing back, you know, in 1776,
the British monarchy ruled as a
dictatorship colonists past
handwritten fliers and inspired
a nation to rise up and protest
and eventually to arms. Will
that be required here? Sad to
say maybe. But there is a
difference. You are listening to
a program right now that big
tech doesn't want you to hear.
You have the ability to share
this with your friends and
family. You have the ability to
add your own commentary to my
thoughts and stimulate a deeper
discussion. Once you have a
group of supporters ready to
make a difference, then set aim
on all the local seats in your
city county state that, you know
hospital Board of Trustees,
school boards, highway
districts, water districts, city
council, county commission, etc.
in my home state of Idaho,
there's something happening that
I need to bring up and efforts
to, to caution you on what might
happen. Right now there. There
may be good solid republican
serving on many of those boards.
Those are not the seats you want
to take. We will address the
idea of Rhino in a minute. We
must guard against an internal
party Civil War. The media loves
these internal struggles, and
they jump at the chance to make
republicans look bad. Some might
think they are coming to the
defense of the current
republican serving in office,
but they are not. They're
poisoning the waters for all
things. Republicans, the
newspapers hate Republicans. The
challenge you and I have are
tolerating people who say they
will do one thing when they get
an office. And then once
elected, they fail to fulfill
their promise. We call these
people rhinos republicans in
name only. Sometimes the name is
well deserved as heavy
conservative states see
democrats file as Republicans
and then run for non partisan
races. They win as the more
reasonable middle ground
sounding person. And then they
rule as Democrats or worse
progressives, and then run for
higher office on their resume of
the non party races. In my
hometown of coralayne, the local
newspaper is tearing into the
County Republican Central
Committee, and especially the
chairman of the organization.
They are pointing to the party's
position running candidates
against republicans and
relishing in the turmoil they so
with their endless newspaper
publication of letters to the
editor. If you have a rhino in a
seat, then prove they are a
rhino call them out as a rhino
publicly, and then run a good
conservative against them. If
they just disagree with your
particular republican pet
project. They're probably not a
rhino. They just have a
different opinion. Find a
democrat to run against take
that seat. The easiest way to
influence the direction of your
county is make a small but
regular contribution to the
local Republican Party. Right
now the republicans in my city
have outraised the democrats by
10s of 1000s of dollars, many
10s of 1000s of dollars, that
level of funding demoralizes the
progressive opposition, they
hate to lose, it makes them look
bad. progressives communists
tech democrats cannot handle
losing, because they take it as
an affront to their personal
beliefs. They believe the entire
world agrees with their view of
the world. When we beat them in
an election, they are forced to
question their very existence.
We want them to question their
very existence. We want to
demoralize them, shame them into
silence, you know, like they do
to us with their woke cancel
culture. Check out my other
political podcast called Idaho
speaks. If you are interested in
starting something similar in
your state, reach out to me and
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take today will determine our
future and the future for our
children. stand proud of your
conservative ideology and look
not for the shelter of silence
that speak your mind. exercise
your right to free speech or one
day, the idea of America might
only be a note in history.