Election 2020: Lies, Damn Lies and Social Media

But first, Dan Payne at JTN hears that Trump says people will be 'shocked' by alleged fraud evidence in Arizona, Georgia, "Numbers will be "extraordinarily big and highly determinative."" Meanwhile, Democrats focus on doxing people who support audits, ET, Judge Rejects Arizona Senate’s Motion to Keep Election Audit Records Private. Will the judge accept responsibility for any violence that results? Don't be silly! Sundance at CTH, Election Audit Organizer Jovan Pulitzer -vs- Former Michigan State Senator Patrick Colbeck, Things Get Salty

Rick Moran at PJ Media reports Federal Judge Throws a Monkey Wrench Into Capitol Riot Prosecutions

A federal judge ruled on Friday that the Justice Department could not use a contractor to organize grand jury materials relating to the more than 500 defendants who have been charged in the January 6 Capitol riot.

The evidence is largely in the form of social media posts, videos, and emails. The Justice Department agreed to pay Deloitte Financial Advisory Services $6.1 million to set up a database containing the evidence gathered by the FBI in their investigation. The database would be available to both the prosecution and the defendants in order to satisfy the requirement that all “exculpatory” evidence be given to the defense.

The government was going to give Deloitte access to sensitive grand jury information, however. The judge ruled that Deloitte was not a government entity and was not entitled to view the secret information.
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Court watchers believe that the ruling will push back most of the rioters’ trials well into 2022.

Sounds like bad news for the defendants; the prosecution and judges (which in this case appears to be part of the prosecution) to keep the defendants in jail on misdemeanor charges.  Mediaite promotes a Democrats fantasy/nightmare, Democratic Rep. Raskin Describes Nightmare Scenario If Trump Had Pence’s Support on 1/6: He Probably Would’ve ‘Imposed Martial Law’. At the Daley Gator, Was Trump planning a coup last November? Or is some hack just trying to sell some books? Hey, books don't sell themselves! JE Dyer at Liberty Unyielding gives Gen. Milley’s big coup-fighting adventure: Two pings

Ping Two - General Milley is done. He needs to resign. He’s politically toxic and can no longer be effective as CJCS. What American is going to trust him to advise the president on military operations now?

He should have resigned before engaging in the clearly partisan, politicized hot-babbling that emerges from the quotes attributed to him. If he felt the need to say such things, the stand-up course would have been to urge political officials to take stabilizing action, and resign if necessary to go public.

Lots and lots of stuff on the Harris/Biden plot to control information flow through social media.  At the Western Journal, Sen. Hawley Sends Scathing Message to Twitter and Facebook CEOs After 'Shocking' Admission of Collusion with Biden Admin. I'm sure they're quaking in their boots. From Fox, Mike Lee: White House colluding with Facebook 'looks like First Amendment violation'. Government conniving with the socials to block discussion? Sure sounds like it to me. Twitchy, Drew Holden’s thread delivers a self-awareness knockout to Dems & media decrying ‘misinformation’ 

You should be terrified at the prospect of regulating “misinformation.”

The last year or so has been a crash course in how bad the powers-that-be can determine what is or isn’t misinformation.

Below, I’ve got a🧵 of 🧵’s compiling some of the most egregious examples⤵️

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) July 17, 2021

As long as we're pretending that this plan applies only to WuFlu (mis?)information and not political points, like say Hunter's laptop, Dylan Beyers on Twitter says The President of the United States has accused the world’s most powerful social media network of “killing people” by not doing enough to combat misinformation. Facebook retaliates, claims Biden's "looking for scapegoats" for missing his vaccine goal (Newsweek, cited at Hot Hair). Kara Swisher at NYT (cited at Hot Hair), "They're killing people"? Biden isn't quite right, but he's not wrong. Jack Schafer at Politico opines What the White House Doesn't Get About Disinformation, "Hammering Tucker Carlson and other lie spreaders won’t keep people from sharing their conspiracies. Direct appeals to the public might." Paula Bolyard at PJ Media, Biden: COVID 'Misinformation' Is 'Killing People.' So Why Is Fauci Still Recommending Masks?

From Insty, THEY’RE KILLING PEOPLE:

Here’s a mashup of VACCINE MISINFORMATION from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Does Jen Psaki want Big Tech to CENSOR this?pic.twitter.com/vqnucmZjnj

— Kyle Martinsen (@KyleMartinsen_) July 16, 2021

Cutie Pavlich at Town Hall, Psaki Gets Cornered with Fauci's Facebook Misinformation: Should Those Posts Be Taken Down?

Ben Weingarten at  Newsweek, Biden Voting Rights Demagoguery Made More Sinister by Domestic Terror Plan. 

Wa Free Bee, Democrats Find a Filibuster They Can Get Behind, "The Texas Democrats didn’t accomplish their mission, but they managed to expose the party’s glaring hypocrisy." At Hot Hair, Karen Townsend says Texas Democrats beg Biden to meet with fleebaggers as Manchin heads to Texas. But there's a problem, Landon Mion at Town Hall reports Three Texas Democrats Test Positive for COVID-19 After Fleeing State for Washington, D.C. despite being vaccinated.

Three Democrats from the Texas state House have tested positive for the coronavirus in Washington, D.C. after departing for the nation's capital earlier this week. according to Texas House Democratic Caucus leadership.

The Texas officials are among more than 50 lawmakers who fled the state Monday to break a quorum, preventing the GOP-controlled House from passing legislation that Republicans say looks to strengthen the integrity of elections.

In photos posted to social media this week, the departing Democrats were seen maskless aboard a private plane en route to D.C. This comes as mask requirements are still enforced on commercial airplanes.

Scott Johnson at Powerline, Comic news story of the day [Updated with Meme] 

The whole fleeing-Texas story is hilarious, in my opinion one of the worst political calculations of recent times.

Sundance at CTH, Superspreaders – Texas Democrats Who Fled to DC Test Positive for The Rona. Rebecca Downs at Town Hall tattles on Texas Democrat Who Tested Positive for COVID Tweets About Making the Rest of Us Suffer with a Mask Mandate

Switching topics again, sundance also gives an Action Alert – Wall Street and Democrats Fundraising for Ten House Decepticons Who Voted to Impeach President Trump

Linked at the Daley Gator in Sometimes I worry, REALLY worry about our nation,