President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that “I’m not going to change anything” after the midterm elections even with the possible loss of one or both houses of Congress. One thing that did not change is Biden’s continued suggestion that his political opponents are fascists or national security threats. Biden is now supporting an investigation into whether Elon Musk’s taking over of Twitter is a national security threat. Biden’s statement comes just a couple days after Musk’s call for supporters to vote for Republican control of Congress and the President attacking him for his plan to restore free speech protections on Twitter.
During a press conference at the White House, a reporter asked Biden if he thought Musk was a national security threat because of his business ties to Saudi Arabia. Biden responded:
“I think that Elon Musk’s cooperation, and/or technical relationships with other countries, uh, is worthy of being looked at. Whether or not he is doing anything inappropriate, I’m not suggesting that. I’m suggesting that … it’s worth being looked at.”
This followed Biden’s tirade against Twitter for moving toward less censorship. The President seriously asked “how do people know the truth” if social media companies did not control what they could read or hear on these platforms.
Biden could have simply demurred and said that he would leave such matters to the responsible agencies to consider. Instead, he added his call to those of Democratic politicians and pundits to initiate a national security review.
The call to unleash a national security review on Musk’s takeover is being pushed by various liberal legal experts and pundits without any sense of concern over the use of such powers for political ends. Among those calling for an investigation is Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who asked the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to review the deal.
Of course, many of these Democratic leaders and pundits supported Twitter silencing those with opposing views for years. In previous hearings, Democratic senators demanded greater censorship from Twitter in areas ranging from Covid to climate change. However, according to Murphy, they are now worried about “the potential influence of the Government of Saudi Arabia” and “[a]ny potential that Twitter’s foreign ownership will result in increased censorship, misinformation, or political violence is a grave national security concern.”
The call for a national security review lacks critical facts that would justify any serious action on the part of CFIUS.
CFIUS is a multi-agency committee headed by the Treasury Department and has the authority to block foreign ownership in critical U.S. industries for national security reasons. CFIUS was created to focus on vital national security industries. In 2018, it was given the mandate to examine foreign ownership of companies that collect and hold data on more than 1 million Americans. However, there is no indication that the Saudis hold a significant share or level of control in the company.
Even if CFIUS were to find sufficient ownership or control of Twitter, it would likely result in an agreement to protect data or limit such control. It would not likely present a substantial barrier for Musk. However, the point of these calls is to harass Musk at every turn in retaliation for his defense of free speech values on social media.
Notably, the calls for national security reviews are occurring at the same time that liberal groups are pressuring companies to withdraw from advertising on the platform. General Motors led the way, even though it had objections when Twitter was silencing opposing views. GM also has no difficulty in giving money to TikTok despite its connections with China. After all, American law professors have proclaimed that “China was right” all along in pushing for censorship on the Internet.
These groups know that Twitter represents a massive threat to the control over political speech on social media. Many customers never wanted the censorship being sold by companies like Facebook and Twitter, but they lacked any alternative. Twitter can now be that alternative. At the same time, Musk’s takeover led to a surge in use on the site. If the public flocks to Twitter as a free speech alternative, the establishment loses its control over what is read or heard by voters on these sites.
The threat is so great that political leaders such as Hillary Clinton have called upon foreign governments to impose censorship rules on Twitter — a call answered by European Union, British, and German officials. So, as Democratic leaders are raising the alarm of possible influence of foreign investors at Twitter, they are actively seeking direct censorship from foreign governments.
These campaigns only add support to Musk’s push for alternative revenue sources, including verification fees. As I previously wrote, we can show that there is a market for free speech by supporting Twitter in trying to reduce the dependence on corporate sponsors. If Musk remains faithful to free speech, many customers are likely to join his platform and support his effort to reduce censorship on social media.
In other words, President Biden supports a witch hunt.
President Biden is acting like a f’ing Marxist and the ignorant sheeple in the Democratic Party are going to follow him lock-step straight over the cliff into the abyss of immorality.
Darren Smith,
Thanks for the clean up on aisle five.
What Steve said.
Thank you Darren.
While I appreciate Darren’s due diligence, it would be instructive to know what was in that thread that prompted him to do the ‘clean up.”
The regular irrelevant deflection trolling mantra from the Anonymous troll that I think Darren defacto banned.
I copied 100% of it for reference and stored in my comment archive records.
Thanks Steve.
Confused…I’m banned? All I did was wish you a Happy Birthday.
safeside824 wrote, “Confused…I’m banned? All I did was wish you a Happy Birthday…”
…and your “Happy Birthday” was a trolling deflection.
Instead of trolling this time around why not try to read and comprehend what I actually wrote and then try to comment again. No one wrote that you were banned.
You missed the mark there. Today is Nov 10. The USMC has been in existence for 247 years. Happy Birthday. Additionally, you made a couple of posts I happen to agree with in the Hunter laptop thread. Just because I don’t agree, not everything is an attack. I’ll be going back to lurking.
safeside824 wrote, “You missed the mark there.”
Nope, I missed no mark.
safeside824 wrote, “Today is Nov 10. The USMC has been in existence for 247 years. Happy Birthday.”
So what, it’s irrelevant, it’s a deflection and I just don’t give a damn.
safeside824 wrote, “Additionally, you made a couple of posts I happen to agree with in the Hunter laptop thread.”
Big whoop. 🙄 Why the hell are you telling me that in this thread when you should be adding your commentary explaining why you agree with me and likely disagree with others in that thread?
safeside824 wrote, “Just because I don’t agree, not everything is an attack.”
Hey doofas; not all trolling deflections are attacks. I didn’t call your deflection an attack, I called it what it exactly what it was, “a trolling deflection”.
safeside824 wrote, “I’ll be going back to lurking.”
Don’t you really mean going back to cyberstalking, but what the heck, how about you try lurking more and trolling less.
Sorry, I apologize if I conditioned you. I mentioned it because I was already in this thread when it came to mind.
Thank you and thank you for your service if indeed you were in the marines.
Air Force
S. Meyer wrote, “Thank you and thank you for your service if indeed you were in the marines.”
safeside824 claimed to be USAF Cop 1982-2008.
I’m not too sure why he’s including the Marine Corps bit, but I’m guessing it’s because he’s made a false assumption about me back in early September.
Olly, it is likely the one with an icon that has a green pyramid and a red background. I think it is Svelaz’s mate, AKA the Bug, Elvis Bug or the Termite. Of course there is always a chance it is ATS doing one of his disappearing acts, but presently I don’t think so.
The way I hear it, Elon has been distributing subversive, anti-Biden pamphlets on street corners across America.
I agree with many things that James said. Having once been a democrat but left that party in the 1980’s. However I still vote for democrats on a local level. I used to think that their policies were a little to left of the midline but there were many moderate democrats who were very responsible and electable in a very conservative state. Nationally that changed with Obama. I never bought his “remaking of America” because it does not need to be remade, it only needs to continue it’s ascent to a better nation, even though that is uneven. But the Democrats on a local level still remained reasonable. The local media was bought up by Gannett and they followed the left shift on a national level and they are often out of touch with the local democrats and republicans. Their papers shrink and become comic book sized and they forget the local level. Maybe that is one of the reasons that the Gannett Corp is losing so much money. But Gannett parrots the DNC line.
A case in point was a moderate democrat who was state governor for 2 terms and was excellent and was rewarded with 2 terms in the senate. He was going to “maintain his independence” in Washington but slowly slipped away and became unelectable because he aligned with D.C. rather that his home state. Did not run for re-election after 2 terms because a routine conservative republican was his opponent. This democrat went into the private sector but did not return to his home state. Tried again later to run for the senate and it was not pretty for him. We also did not elect an almost rabid republican who ran for the senate and elected a moderate Dem instead but he again “went D.C.” and was not re-elected. Also noted that any Democratic Senator from my state gets lots of TV time on national news but the Republican Senators are invisible.
Do you think the poison sits there in D.C.?
My state is conservative but not crazy and they will listen to reasonable people of either side.
I have lived on 3 continents in my life and came from the South but “Back Home Again in Indiana” always brings forth a smile.
Who are afraid of an unbiased non-prejudiced purveyor of the truth and seek to suppress or censor it at every turn and oft times in direct violation of the First Amendment to the US Constitution and codified Federal Law?
Upstate farmer is getting close
The secret? The Intelligence Community is the 4th branch of government.
It was a counter intelligence investigation launched against the Political Campaign of President Trump, that was ongoing through his transition and into his Administration. It allowed secret warrants that no Article III Judge would grant, risking a review by another Judge. There is no review of FISA actions.
It is an National Security Review throwing a cloak over the phony Trump/Presidential documents CIVIL dispute.
Labeling an investigation as a National Security investigation, seals all prying eyes from holding investigators accountable for constitutional abuses.
Why not?
What was that one yahoo who was trying to link the mid terms to Germany in 1930s? Something about co-opting the media.
I pointed out something to the effect of, “like the DNC has co-opted most of MSM?”
Would Musk get a fair investigation? Knowing the points you have made?
Perhaps a open Senate Judiciary Committee investigation?
Farmer: Let us not forget the one who said what you are referring to, for he is one and the same single person most responsible for giving us Joe Biden. He is none other than a top Dem big-shot James Clyburn. You know, if the Dems don’t win, why the USA is somehow 1938 Nazi Germany. And he boasted that he is a learned student of history. Uh huh, sure you are.
Randy Perkins,
Thank you for the assist.
I could see the man’s face, just could not recall the name.
And trump being a Russian asset necisitated an investigation. Would’ve been negligent not to. Intelligence had to learn the specifics of how to use trump’s lack of ability to protect internal secrets from Putin and the Saudis to the advantage of the U.S. In other words, they had to create ground rules for utilizing Trump to broadcast false information. Putin would’ve learned of this quickly…, but it kept him on his toes not knowing what to expect.
“I think that Joe Biden’s cooperation, and/or technical relationships with other countries, uh, is worthy of being looked at. Whether or not or his son is doing anything inappropriate, I’m not suggesting that. I’m suggesting that … it’s worth being looked at.”
DO WE EVEN HAVE A REAL and LEGITIMATE PRESS? NO! Do we even have a real and legitimate president? NO!
Two words: “Fascist”, “Evil”
If biden’s puppeteers classified parents concerned with children’s welfare “terrorists,” it’s no wonder they will brand Musk a threat to free speech.
Biden: The senile Amyloid plaque and the Neurofibrillary tangles of his brain, have coagulated into a solid rigid Tool. He is literally a LAME DUCK TOOL for Life.
I think that
Elon Musk’sthe Biden family’s cooperation, and/or technical relationships with other countries, uh, is worthy of being looked at. Whether or nothe isthey are doing anything inappropriate, I’m not suggesting that. I’m suggesting that … it’s worth being looked at.”Quid pro Joe is wandering into impeachment territory.
Now do BlackRock.
He tried to back out and they took him to court, so how’s that going to work? I’m sure he has very good lawyers, too. These people are despicable. Truly. I never viewed the Dems that way prior to Obama’s second term, even if I disagreed with them. I would not be too shocked if they actually added ‘socialist’ to their party name over the coming years. Would be great if they put some energy into something other than squashing our freedoms, spending our money, and working to ensure their power is permanently unilateral. Policy? What policy?
“Policy? What policy?” Are you talking about Republicans?
What was the Republican platform in 2020? If I remember correctly they didn’t have one. What is the Republican Party platform now? If the Demos are for it, we are against it. Oh yea, I forgot. They want women to get permission from local political leaders for reproductive information before they get pregnant or anything else with regards to reproductive rights.
Out of all the horribles that the Biden / Dem administration has forced upon us, the worst in my opinion are the censorship issues and those related to weaponization of government. Bad policies due to ideological extremism are bad enough, but the use of government to intimidate voters into keeping their mouths shut, as if the 1st Amendment didn’t exist, is what distinguishes Biden et al from anyone else. Freedom of speech is an afterthought to them, a bump in the road on the way to a one party country. There is no evidence they care. Dem voters are as much to blame as he is, but in all fairness remember that the Democrats and the media are the same, and this is where they get their news.
Now it makes sense,
“Vote Dem, or you will be a national security threat.”
OT Happy Birthday!
Thank you!
247 years of tradition unhampered by progress. I kid…Marines are awesome.
Quiet Conservative: It would be easy to enumerate the horrible things this gang has foisted upon the citizens. Ranking them in order of nastiness might be a bit more difficult.
Americans of every political persuasion should be fighting mad! I don’t understand how we have come to accept this as acceptable?????
If they investigate Musk, they should also investigate his son.
progressives are vile
He would be derelict if he DIDN’T call for an investigation – and you could be forgiven for thinking that TRUMP would ignore Elon.
So Bill, you also thought it would have been derelict if Trump DIDN’T call for an investigation of the Biden family. Please be consistent so you don’t appear hypocritical.
Fascism Requires Control
If you vote Democrat…you enable Evil
“I think that Elon Musk’s cooperation, and/or technical relationships with other countries, uh, is worthy of being looked at.”
That’s funny. Now do your kleptocratic family and China.
The market will take care of all this. When one saide exercises a monopoly on the “truth” by imposing restrictive monitoring of communications, there inevitably becomes the opposite effect and the truth remains unknown. The president’s high unfavorable rating reflects the difference between the truth and what he would like us to believe. That higher ratio reflecting the public’s impression counterbalances the spin from the White House and the president. Let everyone’s voice be heard and let the public decide what is truth and what is fiction and/or spin.
We paid the Trump Tax across the board. Trump is too Toxic and needs to go away.
Is America in love with National Socialism? Maybe, maybe not.
National Socialist hate Free Speech.
Twitter needs to find a revenue stream. Corporate sponsors are like the government. They giveth and taketh.
I would suggest a small user fee.
Let those countries that want a censored version of Twitter erect their own firewalls. How deep is the commitment to censorship these countries’ leadership run? Will their voters support such a position, or are they really that stupid?
Brendan: They must know that the Internet is universal and even if you block it in one area, it will proclaim the facts somewhere else and be available to those you cut off. The Internet is the modern-day version of Radio Free Europe that broadcasted the truth to the enslaved when only AM radios were avaialble. The truth has a self-supporting, self-generating way of reaching people and when suppressed, it awakens the kind of fury that brought down the Iron Curtain.