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SINISTER CENSORSHIP
1. Just when it appears things may settle down in the US, the troubles take a new twist.
SINISTER CENSORSHIP
1. Just when it appears things may settle down in the US, the troubles take a new twist.
2. To recap on events leading up to the election:
The US polls had the Democrats well ahead, consistently. Momentum is a powerful political tool - people tend to follow the masses (and I'll return to this point later re Boris).
The US polls had the Democrats well ahead, consistently. Momentum is a powerful political tool - people tend to follow the masses (and I'll return to this point later re Boris).
3. The pollsters must feel they influence voting, why else manipulate them?
I watched a couple of youtube videos which gave a clearer picture. Douglas Murray in one of them, discussing the issues in Portland & the extreme, but ignored, nightly rioting.
I watched a couple of youtube videos which gave a clearer picture. Douglas Murray in one of them, discussing the issues in Portland & the extreme, but ignored, nightly rioting.
4. In the other video another Brit spoke of how he was seeing plenty of support for Trump, with posters & flags displayed in front gardens. The interviews painted a much closer contest than the US news networks depicted.
5. That's a really uncomfortable position for media companies to take in a purported democracy.
I'm not alleging the election was rigged, but I am suggesting voter suppression took place IMO.
I'm not alleging the election was rigged, but I am suggesting voter suppression took place IMO.
6. Following the election, once again, the media skewed the unfolding results. Calling states very early on in the counting for the Democrats, but leaving some Republican states uncalled despite counting being 98% concluded in Republican favour.
7. Once again, it showed a media desperate to give the impression the Democrats were cleaning up, when in reality it was a closer contest.
Not content with pushing the Democrat victory, the media announced the new 'President Elect' before all the votes were counted.
Not content with pushing the Democrat victory, the media announced the new 'President Elect' before all the votes were counted.
8. There was a consistent desperation for Democrat leading the momentum throughout. It was a disappointing & uncomfortable spectacle.
9. But worse was to come when twitter took it upon themselves to censor Trump's tweets. Maybe he was gilding the lily, but that's what politicians do for a living!
The most powerful leader in the West is being censored by social media. I find that incredible & sinister.
The most powerful leader in the West is being censored by social media. I find that incredible & sinister.
10. Yesterday's scenes were regrettable & fed right into the hands of the media, only too pleased to inflate the trespassing as an attempted coup. Come on! A bare chested weirdo with, at most, a couple of hundred Trump fans behaved badly. As I said y'day it could have been worse.
11. Compared to the destruction & violence that took place for months across cities in the US, it was a 'mostly peaceful' demonstration & hopefully short lived at that. No violence is acceptable, but be honest about the behaviour from both camps.
12. I was disappointed to see our Tory MP's tripping over themselves to comment on the disturbances. It's a pity the cat got their tongues earlier in the year.
And Boris should know better, it's not long ago he thought the Nobel Peace Prize for Trump was meritorious.
And Boris should know better, it's not long ago he thought the Nobel Peace Prize for Trump was meritorious.
13. There are times when politicians should keep their gobs firmly shut, particularly when their own political structures have been shaken to the core by duplicitous behaviour in the none too distant past.
14. So, I'm greatly saddened by what I see in the US. The latest threats of (another) impeachment smack of desperation. The whole shebang smacks of desperation. Clinging onto power - an inadequate cohort of old farts who don't know when they should retire for the sake of the US.
15. The US citizens deserve better than the hand they've been dealt.
No good comes of it, as we in the UK experienced during the post referendum shenanigans.
No good comes of it, as we in the UK experienced during the post referendum shenanigans.
16. The past few months have done nothing to quell the sense of unfairness in a system that compelled people to vote for Trump in 2016. All they will feel is a sense of being marginalised by the progressives & their voices & concerns silenced by the machine.
It's a tragedy.
It's a tragedy.
