Our podcast today is supersized as we take on the aftermath of the riots, the removal of Trump from Twitter and the removal of Parler from the Internet, the Republican Party’s challenge, the prospects for impeachment and removal, and the very nature of reality itself. Get a cup of coffee and give a listen.

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  1. OccupantCDN Coolidge
    OccupantCDN
    @OccupantCDN

    So corporations will now feel entitled to enforce their own politics onto their customers? This is a good thing? Look at the directors of every fortune 500 company – I bet 80-90% are democrats. As of 2018 there where 5670 board seats at these companies. I’d be very interested to see that study.

    One day they’re going to come for Ricochet. It wont matter how calm or kind our message boards are. We disagree and therefore you’re gone.

    Will amazon feel free not to deliver paid for goods to registered republicans? Or to business who do not conform to BLM edicts? Will they stop delivering to districts like mine? (that voted 75% conservative in the last election)

    Its not a slippery slop, its a free fall — all free falls have an abrupt ending … Splat.

    These deplatform shoes where made for walking, and if you dont see the writing on the wall as a risk to yourself, you’re kidding yourself. We’ll be walking away.

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  2. Jeff Hawkins Inactive
    Jeff Hawkins
    @JeffHawkins

    “It’s a different problem when the movement is being led by the President of the United States”

    Okay, but the incoming Vice President’s staff donated to the Minnesota bail project. I don’t think the separation chasm is that vast.

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  3. Lois Lane Coolidge
    Lois Lane
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    I don’t know if the Commentary people ever read this or not, but I think they are a little hysterical at times here.  We have no idea how Trump will be received in public after leaving office, but he has obviously become toxic to many people who voted for him for whatever reasons in November.  He is certainly toxic for me, but I think the Left has the most power here in shaping the future… literally as well as figuratively.  Truly.

    I have certainly not been impressed by how they have played this thus far either.  The purpose is to stage an American purge.  And I don’t say that because I’ve internalized my politics to the point that they are my identity.  (I’m more in the “disengage” camp.) It just seems obvious.  And thus they are creating more grievances, which is just as dangerous as anything else that’s happened because of what else that can be put into motion.

    I guess after 9/11 we could have banned all Muslims from using all social media platforms because a large number of Muslims–even if a minority per %–have some pretty radicalized views, but I don’t think that would have been at all productive.  So good luck now to the forces that push for the shutting up of all Republicans, which is what happens when you remove whole websites because that is where the loons speak, too.   Good luck when demonizing half of the American electorate per their often complicated decision to cast a vote in which they had a binary choice.  (The demonization of my parents who voted for Trump in 2016 when I would not is one of the reasons I voted for Trump in 2020, actually.  Perhaps that sounds insane, but it was partially my reaction.  And all of us are horrified by the storming of the Capitol and think all those people should be arrested.)

    I don’t know how to fix it, but take a breath and get through the next few days.  Then see where the pieces fall.  It’s not at all obvious to me how they will.

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  4. OccupantCDN Coolidge
    OccupantCDN
    @OccupantCDN

    America’s French Revolution:

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  5. CaptainMayotoast Inactive
    CaptainMayotoast
    @CaptainMayotoast

    I listened to the end of this podcast.  Good and well thought out as always.

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