Americans for Intelligence Reform

Brad Johnson, President, and retired CIA Senior Officer and Chief of Staff. Insight into current events from an intelligence angle.

A look back at June in this interview about social media censorship

(At the time of this videos, Twitter was getting pushback from Trump on their censorship of conservatives.)

 

Contrary to spin, what Trump wants to do about social media censorship may not be what you think…

 

https://youtu.be/1UTtK3ypS_o
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supporters have been waiting for for a
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really long time and one of those things
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has been to come down on social media
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for its its abandonment of its agreement
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to allow free speech and therefore get
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immunity as a platform and it looks like
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president Trump’s holding in that task
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so what do you think that’s exactly
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right and and and that’s what all of
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these platforms claimed to be as
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Facebook Twitter YouTube all of them
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they they claim to be a platform where
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you anyone could say whatever they
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wanted I mean they couldn’t like show
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porn or you know murder people on camera
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sorts of things no illegal activity but
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otherwise they would just say whatever
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they wanted to say so with the
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understanding that they were a platform
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and not a publisher they were given
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special status by Congress that special
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status is what Trump is saying he’s
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going to suspend by executive order so
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that is a huge deal and you’ve had
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Twitter just double down double down
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double down and this is one of those
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those things where where Trump has
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prepared for this and as Twitter has
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started to kind of try to turn the
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screws to Trump in anticipation of the
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election coming up in November now we’re
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at the end of May so they’ve been
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beginning to ramp it up ramp it up ramp
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it up trying to damage president Trump
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politically about president Trump’s one
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step ahead of him and the first thing
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he’s going to do is remove that status
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because what are they doing well now
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here’s how the left is twisting this
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this is spit pure spin which of course
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is just another way of saying lying and
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they’re trying to you know create
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excuses to make this you know sound like
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oh this is a First Amendment right thing
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but President Trump is in no way trying
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to stop Twitter from saying whatever it
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wants what he is trying to do is stop
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them from
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pretending to let everybody see what
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they want where in reality what they’re
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doing is they’re behind the scenes
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crushing all the conservative voices and
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promoting all the liberal voices because
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that then is a publisher they are
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publishing and behind a certain
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philosophy that they’re trying to
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promote which is of course the left that
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is exactly the opposite of what they
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said they would do when they were
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allowed this special privilege so that
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that’s the what the truth is the spin is
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that President Trump is trying to
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violate their first right amendments and
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stop them from saying things somehow
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which you know I’m not sure you know
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that’s one of the things that’s the
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problems that the press when people come
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out say oh this is a violation of the
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First Amendment for creative speech for
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Twitter it’s like yeah okay how you how
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is that happening I mean you explain
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where you get him taking away their
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special privilege because they’re
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promoting a certain ideology how does
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that turn into him stopping them from
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saying something so what’s an example of
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what you’re talking about but nobody
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ever asks those questions it doesn’t
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come up in the in mainstream media Fox
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or anybody but that’s that’s that’s the
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line that has been drawn in the sand and
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I’ll have to say the guy who’s the head
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of of Twitter is a freaking idiot and
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just eating it I mean he’s good
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destroyed his own business and for what
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I mean he doesn’t see this coming as he
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ramps up who has more power ham or the
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president United States and clearly it’s
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the president of united states so you
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know this miss it for the president is
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just completely within his rights as
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president of the United States to remove
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this special status from these guys and
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it’s clear of proof I mean you and I on
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the show of talked about the bias that
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comes out of Twitter and Facebook and
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YouTube and and in fact the Vlad selfish
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blog YouTube channel got taken away
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why because you were targeted because
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you’re not liberal and they’ve targeted
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person after person after person we’ve
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all seen it happen over and over with
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the way that the IRS stopped the
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nonprofit organization
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that were conservative or religious or
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Christian conservative that they were
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stopping them from forming but rushing
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through all of the liberal organizations
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so this is this is one of the first
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times where ever avert actually starting
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to see a president United States really
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work for the people of the United States
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where we the people are free to say what
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we want to say and and for me personally
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I know I don’t care what liberals want
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to say they’re welcome to say whatever
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they want to say on MSNBC but what’s
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what I don’t like and where Democrats
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should come out in the defense of us on
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this who other people who want to say
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alternate alternate perspectives is they
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should back this because these things
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cut both ways you know today you know
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they are are trying to politically
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destroy the voice of conservatives but
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tomorrow can be the voice of the
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Conservatives trying to destroy the
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voice of liberals so all Americans
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should stand united on this and Twitter
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is clearly out of their frickin mind and
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morons we’re seeing the leadership at
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Facebook be more intelligent they’re
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just as guilty they’re exactly the same
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thing doing all of the same stuff but
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now they’re kind of backing down at this
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confrontation saying no no no no no
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we’re you know we’re not going to do
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that we’re not going to edit what the
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president says we’re not going to goof
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around with any of that stuff you go say
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what you want to say and we’re gonna
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stay out of it so I think you may see
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some of this ratcheting back on Facebook
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they’ll be doing it quietly behind the
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scenes but they’re not going to be
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forcefully pushing it as an issues so
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Twitter and Facebook and all these guys
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YouTube they’re going to lose that
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status and that’s that’s going to happen
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and it’s going to be because of Twitter
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unless of course I mean if I were a
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stockholder in Twitter I’d be absolutely
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pitching a freaking fit because this guy
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whose CEO is going to make Twitter stock
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worth nothing because he’s going to
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destroy the value of the company through
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political abject stupidity I mean this
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is stupid this is you know in normal
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time is what it would be like to go up
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and just you know punch a cop for no
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reason standing on the street normally
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then you’d get mobbed by the cops
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and a lot of trouble I mean he’s pokin
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he’s pokin the wrong guy in the eye over
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this thing and he can only lose I mean I
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don’t know what he has in his mind but I
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would say it’s very typical of the left
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the left only speaks among themselves
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and he thinks he’s doing some righteous
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whatever you know on the left for a
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leftist cause or something but you know
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I wonder what in his mind he imagines as
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a successful outcome because there you
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know the the best he can hope for is to
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kind of hold on to a reduced version of
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what he has that’s the best-case
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scenario worst case scenario he’s going
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to lose control completely be booted out
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and if I were like I said if I run the
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board or I up as a stockholder
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I’d be going look dude I know we’re
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gonna hold a vote you know you’re you
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need to go succeed elsewhere because
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you’re not making it here anymore that
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was moronic decision and had just come
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out apologize public to the president
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United States and get out of the
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business of a promoting of perspective
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within Twitter and same for Facebook and
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YouTube and all of that but we know how
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those rules are done some of the spin on
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mainstream media’s been whoa well you
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know Trump’s not following the rules
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he’s promoting violence all that but
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again it’s one of those things he’s
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promoting by that’s great
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where is that and they come up with some
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screwball whatever well he used the word
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you know X Y Z and that’s a dog whistle
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for this that means that what he wants
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is that and they come up with some
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complex BS explanation of how he’s
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secretly you know calling for violence
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in the streets of the United States I
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mean it’s just one of those things like
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I’ve said before I guess if you smoke a
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lot of crack that stuff makes sense to
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you but if you’re a normal person it
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just you just listen to this stuff that
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they spout and you got to shake your
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head and go these guys are nuts how do
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they get on TV yeah I didn’t mean while
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IDs the DSA actually is calling for
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violence on the streets that’s the first
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yes yes yeah there’s a lot of backing
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for us on the streets and it’s all from
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the left all the vines they’re trying to
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say these people on the street that are
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rioting are are the right wingers but
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it’s goofball at any rate it’s it’s
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Twitter is destroying itself as the
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bottom line they cannot win and the
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president cannot
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so it’s it’s one of those things why
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would you get into a fight that you
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can’t win and can only lose it makes it
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rough Li two years ago a similar
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situation happened after an taifa had
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started interfering with freedom of
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speech on Berkeley and other campuses
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and president from tide funding to
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universities with their ability to
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protect the First Amendment rights of
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students and suddenly Dean started
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calling conservatives into their offices
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and asking how they could help them set
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up the clubs that up until then had been
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denied so for those who doubt the
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president’s resolve or ability to get
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results on this I think you just have to
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look at that yeah and I think well let’s
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see what happens to Twitter but I
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they’re they’re going to wake up all
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morning with a big surprise
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you
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