Sylvia L. Davis 8 min read time
1. Elon Musk Says He’ll Lift Trump’s Twitter Ban After Deal Closes
Elon Musk on Tuesday suggested he would lift Twitter’s ban on former President Donald Trump after closing a deal to purchase Twitter and take it private.
Musk, who is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, said it was a mistake for Twitter to suspend the former president’s account in early 2021.
"Permanent bans should be extremely rare"
When asked point-blank virtually during a Future of the Car event hosted by the Financial Times allowing Trump back on the social media platform, Musk described Trump’s ban as morally wrong and “flat-out stupid.”
“So I guess the answer is … I would reverse the perma-ban” on Trump’s account, Musk said, cautioning that he “[doesn’t] own Twitter yet.”
“Permanent bans should be extremely rare and really reserved for accounts that are bots, or scam, spam accounts,” added Musk, estimated to be the world’s richest person with a net worth of more than $260 billion. “I do think it was not correct to ban Donald Trump. I think that was a mistake … It alienated a large part of the country and did not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice,” he said.
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Permanent suspensions, he argued, undermine trust in Twitter: “If there are tweets that are wrong and bad, those should be either deleted or made invisible, and a suspension—a temporary suspension—is appropriate, but not a permanent ban.”
Twitter acquisition
After it was announced last month that Musk would purchase Twitter for $44 billion, Trump told several news outlets that he would not be coming back to Twitter, a platform where he had amassed more than 80 million followers. Instead, Trump said he would focus on his Truth Social venture.
Musk said that he would place an emphasis on freedom of speech and rolling out new features once he takes control of Twitter. Closing such a deal could take months, and Twitter’s management, including CEO Parag Agrawal, is still in charge of the firm.
"I'm not going on Twitter" said Trump
“I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on Truth,” Trump told Fox News on April 25. “I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on Truth.”
In recent years, Twitter has drawn criticism for suspending and targeting conservative and Republican users, like Trump, with Musk himself writing Monday that the company has displayed a left-wing bias. Twitter has also permanently banned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) personal account, COVID-19 vaccine critic Dr. Robert Malone, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, former White House adviser Peter Navarro, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, and many more.
The San Francisco-based social media firm has also adopted rules that favor left-wing views, including banning using certain pronouns to refer to people claiming to be transgender.
2. The COVID Shots Are Killing People?
Is there a rational way we can move forward and improve COVID outcomes? Dr. Peter McCullough shares his insights here.
"COVID Shots Are Dangerous and Ineffective"
When it comes to the COVID injections, McCullough cites research showing those at highest risk of dying from COVID-19 are also at highest risk of dying from the COVID shot.
Additionally, the shots are causing severe heart damage in younger people whose risk of dying from COVID is inconsequential.
He points out the safety signal is very clear, with 19,249 deaths having been reported to the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System as of November 19, 2021.
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Despite that, not a single safety review has been conducted to weed out risk factors and the like.
“We’re almost a year into the program and there’s been no attempt at risk mitigation,” McCullough says.
At the same time, there have been gross attempts to coerce Americans into taking the shots — everything from free beer or a free lap dance, to million-dollar lotteries and paid scholarships to state universities.
Biden: "vaccine hesitancy is wearing thin."
President Biden infamously stated that his patience with “vaccine hesitancy” was “wearing thin.”
The insinuation was that if people didn’t get the shot, they’d face serious repercussions, and we’re now seeing those repercussions play out day by day, as people are being fired and kicked out of school for refusing the jab.
Meanwhile, they haven’t even determined which vaccine is the most effective, which is remarkable.
If government really wanted to end the pandemic with a vaccine, wouldn’t they determine which shot works the best and promote the use of that?
But no, they tell us any shot will do.
A danger for children
“Doctors have never seen so many cases of myocarditis,” McCullough says, citing research showing that among children between the ages of 12 and 17, 87% are hospitalized after receiving the shot. “That’s how dangerous it is,” he says. “It is frequent, and it is severe.”
Yet the FDA claims myocarditis after the COVID shot is “rare and mild.” We’re now also getting reports of fatal cases of myocarditis in adults in their 30s and 40s. “Myocarditis right now looks like an unqualified disaster,” McCullough says, both for younger people and adults.
Sadly, children also reap no benefit from the shots, so it’s all risk and no benefit for them.
McCullough points out there has been no recorded school outbreaks and no child-to-teacher transmission.
He estimates 80% of school aged children are already immune, which would explain this.
3. Documentary Proves Rampant Illegal Vote Trafficking in 2020
Filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza believes that evidence presented in his new documentary, “2000 Mules,” proves that large-scale, illegal vote trafficking occurred in the 2020 election.
An investigative team used cellphone tracking
D’Souza, who is a contributor to The Epoch Times, said an investigative team used cellphone tracking and video footage to prove that unauthorized intermediaries called “mules” collected thousands of absentee ballots from voters and deposited them in drop boxes for money, which is illegal in all 50 states.
Cellphones emit a unique and identifiable signal or “ping.” Trillions of pings were analyzed by investigators to reconstruct the movements of thousands of mules as they went about their work in the weeks prior to the 2020 presidential election, the documentary claims.
“Who would have ever thought that investigators could look back in time and discover such things?” D’Souza said.
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Election fraud has been committed by both parties throughout U.S. history, and therefore “cannot be considered abnormal,” D’Souza said. “The Democrats have a particular history of committing specialized election fraud in urban areas.
“The COVID-19 pandemic created an opportunity to do fraud on a scale not imagined before. The avalanche of absentee ballots sent out and the drop boxes presented much greater opportunity.”
D’Souza said he’s worried about the Democrats’ push to centralize how elections are conducted at both the state and national levels.
“A united Republican opposition is the only thing thwarting Biden, Pelosi, and the Democrats from enacting their plans,” he said. “Across America, the Democrats are trying to get rid of election security measures imposed by the states. They want to legalize fraud.”
The infusion of private money to help pay for elections is something D’Souza finds “very disturbing.”
“The money is largely coming from nonprofits funded by billionaires like Zuckerberg. They pose as politically neutral, which they are not.
“Localities were pressured by the nonprofits to have things like drop boxes as a condition for receiving millions of dollars in grant funding.”
D’Souza said that in November 2020, nonprofits paid for programs and advertising that actively encouraged “certain people to come out and vote.”
The ultimate Taboo in American politics
According to the Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life, the money was given to help municipalities cope with public health challenges presented by the pandemic.
“Through the movie ‘2000 Mules,’ we are taking on the ultimate taboo in American politics today—saying that the 2020 election was stolen by systematic, organized fraud committed by the Democrats and the left,” D’Souza told The Epoch Times.
Mindful of the power of cancel culture, D’Souza said great care has been taken to release the film on what he calls “un-cancellable platforms.”
“It’s hard to believe we have reached that point in America, but alas, we have,” he said.
“While I was a writer or a figure in a think-tank, I wasn’t bothered much. It was when I began to reach a wider audience that I became a political target.”
When asked why he’s willing to subject himself to possible cancellation, D’Souza said, “I am defending the system which made it possible for an immigrant from India, a boy at the bottom, to make my way up—a system that makes this kind of upward economic and social mobility possible.”
D’Souza has produced numerous documentaries, three of which are ranked in the top 10 highest-grossing political documentaries of all time.