Joe Biden, a man with the mental acuity and awareness of an oyster is now in the White House, where he will be taken by the hand, guided into a closet and handed some coloring books to keep him busy while Kamala Harris runs the government — a government that will be, let&#8217;s face it, radically far-left and entirely unfettered. Democrats have full control and will exploit that control to the fullest extent, because that&#8217;s what Democrats do when they have power. This stands in contrast to Republicans, who mostly twiddle their thumbs and bide their time, waiting to be out of power again so that they can pretend to care about the policies they didn’t enact when they had the chance. You will notice that Republicans become significantly more gung-ho about the conservative agenda at the precise moment when they no longer have the power to implement it. Democrats don&#8217;t play that game. They make use of the authority they are granted, and often will even make use of authority they are not granted.
Speaking of the conservative agenda, whatever progress may have been made in that direction over the last four years is already being reversed. Soon it will be as though none of it ever happened. Donald Trump actually reversed some of it himself on the way out the door, for example rescinding his own executive order banning administration officials from taking lobbyist jobs within five years of leaving government. I suppose he was just saving Biden the paperwork on that one. As for the rest, Biden, or his handlers, can undo almost all of it through executive order. Legislation probably won&#8217;t be required, but if they need legislation they can pass that, too. Republicans may have been able to block some of it had they held Georgia. But the Georgia race became a circus freak show with faux-conservative carnival barkers and grifters lining their own pockets and telling Republican voters to stay home. Now there is no legislative dam to hold back the flood waters. It will all come rushing in, and we cannot stop it. 
Meanwhile, the conservative movement is fractured into pieces. Trump leaves office impeached, deplatformed, and facing the possibility of a Senate conviction. Many other conservatives have also been deplatformed or unpersoned in other ways, and the Powers That Be are currently dreaming up new methods to silence the rest of us. We on the Right are under suspicion and attack. The Left has taken control of the presidency and the Senate and their opposition is currently scattered, disorganized, leaderless, and weakened.
That is the reality of the situation. It’s best now that we look it straight in the eyes, as uncomfortable as it may be. The Right has deluded itself with fairytales for long enough, telling itself stories about secret plans and “4D chess” and insisting that everything will magically work out in the end. Even as recently as Tuesday night, right up until the last moment, there were significant numbers of people still holding on desperately to the baseless hope that Trump would remain in office, and whatever great plan would unfold, and everything would be okay. Some will probably keep holding onto that hope, against all odds and all reality. I wouldn’t be surprised if the new theory is that Trump is actually still president, secretly running the government from his bat cave deep underground somewhere. But those of us with the intellectual honesty to face reality, must face it, once and for all.
The question then becomes: What now? Where do we go from here? What does the road ahead look like? Is all hope lost? Are we doomed? Should we give up? I think I can answer those last three with a no, no, and no. Hope is not lost, we are not doomed, and we should not give up.  There is, in fact, a silver lining around this big dark cloud. Now, finally, conservatives can stop looking to one man in Washington to save them and their families, and instead focus on making an impact where it really matters and can be felt. Going forward, the most important fight is exactly where it has always been, though we have largely neglected it in favor of focusing on national politics. The fight is in the culture at the most local levels. The true battle for the future of the country is happening right around us, within arm&#8217;s reach, and we can win profound victories in that arena if we are willing to put in the effort. 
Just one tangible example: The school system. Millions of children are sent into government buildings (or into Zoom meetings, as the case may be) where they are conditioned and indoctrinated into the dogmas of the far-Left. We could have nothing but Republican presidents for the next 50 years and it would make almost no difference, culturally, as long as we keep feeding our kids into this system. The Left doesn&#8217;t need the White House if it has your kids, though it is quite happy to have both. We can change this if we want, and if it is important enough to us. We can pull our kids out and form homeschool co-ops with likeminded people in our communities. Fifty million children are currently enrolled in public school. Cut that number by a half or third or even a quarter, and it won&#8217;t much matter who is president because we will have so significantly taken back control over our own families and thus the culture. The condition of the family is what determines the condition of the culture. We control the culture, then, to the extent that we control our own families.
There are plenty of other things we could do, though none of them are flashy or fun. We can get involved in local politics. Attend our town hall meetings. Maybe run for a local office. We can speak out when things are happening in our neighborhoods that we don&#8217;t like. There are things like Drag Queen Story Hours in nearly every community in the country. That&#8217;s not because nearly ever community supports having crossdressers perform for children. It&#8217;s because the people who don&#8217;t support it — the majority — choose to stay silent.
And our local involvement does not always have to be negative or defensive. As we speak there is a pro-life pregnancy center in your town that is barely paying its bills because the vast majority of the local pro-life conservatives do not donate their time or money. All of these things, and a hundred others, can be done no matter who is president. And if we do them, we would see a dramatic sea change in the culture. We would start winning — for real this time, and in lasting and meaningful ways. 
These are our options, the diverging roads that lay before us. We can do nothing but mope and complain about the Democrats, or we can get serious and start doing the sorts of things that the Left has done for decades in the public sphere in order to achieve the cultural dominance they now enjoy. The choice is ours.
More from Matt Walsh: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-as-biden-prepares-to-take-office-democrat-leaders-are-suddenly-interested-in-opening-the-economy-again">As Biden Prepares To Take Office, Democrat Leaders Are Suddenly Interested In Opening The Economy Again</a>
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The Left has taken control of the presidency and the Senate and their opposition is currently scattered, disorganized, leaderless, and weakened. So where do we go from here?

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January 22, 2021, marks the 48th anniversary of Roe v. Wade — the controversial Supreme Court <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/roe_v_wade_(1973)">opinion</a> that alleges a constitutional right to privacy for women pursuing abortions.
Since the opinion was handed down in 1973, over 62 million babies — a figure equal to the combined populations of Spain, Sweden, and Greece — have been <a href="https://aclj.org/pro-life/roe-v-wade-decision-marks-48-years-and-nearly-62-million-babies-killed-as-a-new-pro-abortion-pro-planned-parenthood-administration-takes-office">aborted</a> in the United States alone.
President Biden <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/biden-reiterates-promise-to-make-roe-v-wade-the-law-of-the-land/">intends</a> to enforce Roe v. Wade federally by making it the “law of the land.” Vice President Kamala Harris has a long <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2020/08/14/kamala-harris-tried-to-put-pro-lifers-in-jail-who-exposed-planned-parenthood-selling-baby-parts/?fbclid=IwAR2rBa9JEIepeoAS2lahplJe80jOKUxpLLSOXrlmmbGrURrHdTjv_KwVREM">relationship</a> with Planned Parenthood, which is responsible for one-third of abortions in the United States.
Despite the inauguration of a Commander-in-Chief who <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2020/07/01/joe-biden-supports-abortions-up-to-birth-supports-killing-babies-under-any-circumstance/">supports</a> abortion “under any circumstances,” state legislators across the nation are proposing a wave of bills to completely end abortion within their borders.
Arizona
Rep. Walt Blackman (R-AZ) is introducing a bill to criminalize abortion in the state of Arizona.
The <a href="https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/bills/HB2650P.pdf">Equal Opportunity for Life Act</a> offers full and equal protection for Arizona citizens both inside and outside of the womb. It also defines an “unborn child in the womb at any state of development” as a “person” under Arizona law.
“Human life begins at conception. This is no longer a matter of debate,” Rep. Blackman wrote on his Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/theWaltBlackman/">page</a>. “The science is settled and widely acknowledged by all sides. The question now is whether Americans, regardless of age, size or abilities, will be afforded an equal opportunity to enjoy the inalienable right to life.”
On January 22, nonprofit group <a href="https://endabortionnow.com/">End Abortion Now</a> — led by Dr. James White and Pastor Jeff Durbin — hosted a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agw91bmH4gA&amp;feature=push-lsb&amp;attr_tag=vYJI88vcC_2G10G3%3A6">rally</a> alongside Rep. Blackman to announce the legislation.
“If we don’t protect human lives in the womb, then no lives matter,” remarked Pastor Durbin. “We will establish justice for human beings in the womb.”
Oklahoma
Newly-elected Oklahoma State Senator Warren Hamilton (R-OK) announced his intent to file the <a href="https://oksenate.gov/press-releases/hamilton-file-abolition-abortion-oklahoma-actequal-protection-and-equal-justice-act">Abolition of Abortion in Oklahoma Act</a> — also known as the Equal Protection and Equal Justice Act — which would “criminalize and end all abortions in Oklahoma.”
According to a press release from Sen. Hamilton, the legislation would “establish that an unborn child has the same God-given unalienable rights as any other human.”
“As Americans, we must stand up for those who cannot defend themselves, those not yet born, and protect their lives at all costs,” he said. “Abortion is an abomination before God, and something we must stop here in Oklahoma if we expect our state to be great. We must also acknowledge the truth that God will not bless America as long as we have innocent blood on our hands.”
Several church coalitions and pro-life groups — including <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16zrSWiOcTM">Southern Baptists for the Abolition of Abortion</a> and <a href="https://freethestates.org/">Free the States</a> — endorsed Rep. Blackman’s proposal.
Indiana
Freshman State Representative John Jacob (R-IN) and State Representative Curt Nisly (R-IN) are <a href="https://christiannews.net/2021/01/18/indiana-lawmakers-file-bill-ending-regulation-of-abortion-in-state-outlawing-it-completely/">introducing</a> the <a href="http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/9/1/4/49140c69/HB1539.01.INTR.pdf">Protection at Conception Act</a>.
Recognizing that the state and federal governments exist to “secure the inalienable rights acknowledged by the Declaration of Independence,” the bill declares that “human physical life begins when a human ovum is fertilized by a human sperm.”
The legislation also asserts that a “mother and her unborn child are equally valuable as individual patients when receiving health care services” and establishes that a baby born alive must be treated as a person under Indiana law. 
Missouri
Following a recent legislative advance from state lawmakers, pro-life group <a href="https://www.operationrescue.org/archives/the-status-of-american-abortion-facilities-in-2020-the-first-abortion-free-state/">Operation Rescue</a> recently <a href="https://disrn.com/news/missouri-declared-the-first-abortion-free-state">announced</a> that Missouri is officially the first abortion-free state in the nation.
Though Missouri’s final Planned Parenthood remains open, Operation Rescue confirmed that “no abortion appointments have been available there for months, and none are available anytime in the foreseeable future.” Instead, abortion appointments are being referred to a nearby Planned Parenthood facility in Illinois.
The development comes in the wake of several pro-life <a href="https://freebeacon.com/issues/missouri-senate-passes-pro-life-reforms/">reforms</a> advanced by the state legislature in 2019, including a prohibition on abortions after eight weeks and protection for babies with Down syndrome.
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For the Left, the world changed on January 20th when Joe Biden arrived hand-in-hand with Kamala Harris to save us from the supposed “trauma” of the outgoing Trump administration. During the Inauguration, Biden echoed the promises of his campaign, implying that everything will change. Things will be different. We can heal, united, together.
Instead, as we&#8217;ve witnessed in the first few days of Biden’s administration, the American political and cultural machine — after working to get him elected — are now working to elevate him as a shining beacon of unprecedented success.
CNN’s COVID Coverage
During Trump’s last year in office, reporters and anchors at CNN were falling over each other to criticize the Republican administration. They even displayed a “COVID-19 death counter” during their coverage, reminding Americans in real-time of the pandemic’s impact.
After Inauguration day, the importance of COVID seemed to suddenly diminish, with some critics claiming that their death tracker had even disappeared entirely.
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Here&#39;s a quick snapshot <a href="https://t.co/ZuEKhG4C3O">pic.twitter.com/ZuEKhG4C3O</a>
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Others may have noticed that CNN — a constant critic of rival conservative networks as spreaders of “misinformation” or “disinformation” — actively engaged in the distribution of misinformation with an utter lack of any journalistic integrity.
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Someone didn&#39;t watch the PowerPoint. <a href="https://t.co/T9hpCmgR3O">https://t.co/T9hpCmgR3O</a> <a href="https://t.co/rqLDZeBHhE">pic.twitter.com/rqLDZeBHhE</a>
&mdash; Ian G Haworth (@ighaworth) <a href="https://twitter.com/ighaworth/status/1352677343806951424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2021</a></blockquote>
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White House Press Coverage
Every White House Press Secretary under Trump, culminating with Kayleigh McEnany, was grilled mercilessly and incessantly by journalists at every opportunity. It should be understood that, in an ideal world, this should be the expected behavior of journalists when interacting with the political apparatus. They should ask difficult questions.
Given this reasonable position, you would assume that Joe Biden’s White House Press Secretary, Jen Psaki, would be given the same treatment? Her feet would also be held to the proverbial fire of truth. Well, no.
Despite the Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/get-ready-for-reality-grounded-white-house-press-briefings/2021/01/18/43eb1d3c-58eb-11eb-8bcf-3877871c819d_story.html">declaring</a> that we, “get ready for reality-grounded White House press briefings,” Psaki’s <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/sean-spicer-jen-psaki-treated-much-differently-during-first-official-events">first day</a> was to Sean Spicer’s as a light walk is to a sprint across No Man’s Land.
You could almost see the media take their collective foot off the gas pedal, with deep and insightful questions such as “Will [Biden] keep Donald Trump’s Air Force One color scheme change?” 
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REPORTER: &quot;Will [Biden] keep Donald Trump&#39;s Air Force One color scheme change?
PSAKI: &quot;This is such a good question!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/PafHiBtRUs">pic.twitter.com/PafHiBtRUs</a>
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When Peter Doocy, White House Correspondent for Fox News, asked why President Biden failed to follow his own mask mandate, Psaki’s response was that Biden was “celebrating an evening of a historic day in our country.”
Finally, when asked about Biden’s abortion policies, Psaki responded that the president was a “devout Catholic” and had recently attended church.
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In the Biden-Harris Administration’s first White House press briefing, Press secretary Jen Psaki completely deflects the abortion question. By way of an answer, says that Biden is a &quot;devout Catholic&quot; who attends church regularly; &quot;I don’t have anything more for you on that” <a href="https://t.co/tMQCzTk7EU">pic.twitter.com/tMQCzTk7EU</a>
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Unfortunately, the legacy media’s commitment to “discovering the truth” seems to have suddenly evaporated. How odd.
Governors and Mayors Opening Back Up
In an act of unforgivable political cynicism, multiple Democratic mayors and governors intentionally knee-capped their own economies — placing thousands of their constituents in economic peril — in order to hold the country hostage and achieve a win for Joe Biden. Now that Biden has entered the White House, further economic collapse would be inconvenient, and so many have — miraculously — decided that it is time to open back up, even as COVID-19 deaths remain shockingly high.
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JUST IN: D.C. ends its ban on indoor dining. Restaurants are now open at 25% capacity.<a href="https://t.co/pzc8BYfUEk">https://t.co/pzc8BYfUEk</a>
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Today, <a href="https://twitter.com/MichiganHHS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MichiganHHS</a> announced a new epidemic order that will allow for indoor dining at restaurants with certain requirements beginning Feb. 1st. <a href="https://t.co/lGp8lptcRb">pic.twitter.com/lGp8lptcRb</a>
&mdash; Governor Gretchen Whitmer (@GovWhitmer) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovWhitmer/status/1352678066196279296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot is pushing for Chicago bars and restaurants to reopen for indoor dining “as quickly as possible.” <a href="https://t.co/fDIEkuAjuW">https://t.co/fDIEkuAjuW</a>
&mdash; Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) <a href="https://twitter.com/chicagotribune/status/1349827272551882765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Twitter and Amazon
For months on end last year, riots exploded across the country as BLM and Antifa members attacked government buildings, looted stores, and committed acts of violence against American citizens. While politicians turned a blind eye, hoping to make political profit by presenting the violence as an understanding reaction to systemic problems, social media companies — including Twitter — dragged their heels when it came to shutting down related accounts.
However, as Antifa continued to riot in cities after Joe Biden’s Inauguration, the attitude was suddenly one of immediate action, with Andy Ngo reporting that Twitter had suddenly suspended “several prominent Antifa accounts.”
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Breaking: <a href="https://twitter.com/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Twitter</a> has suspended several prominent <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/antifa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#antifa</a> accounts. <a href="https://twitter.com/TheBaseBK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheBaseBK</a> is one of them. The Base is an extremist bookstore in Brooklyn, NY that has been used as an antifa training center. <a href="https://t.co/CeCIhzpJBQ">pic.twitter.com/CeCIhzpJBQ</a>
&mdash; Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1352399672594345985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Not only that, on the day of the Inauguration, Amazon released an open letter to President Biden saying that they stand “ready to assist you in reaching your goal of vaccinating 100 million Americans in the first 100 days of your administration.” No such offer was present before Inauguration day, despite the vaccine rollout beginning weeks prior.
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Letter to <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: “Amazon stands ready to assist you in reaching your goal of vaccinating 100 million Americans in the first 100 days of your administration.” <a href="https://t.co/bH6y6IZZEW">pic.twitter.com/bH6y6IZZEW</a>
&mdash; Amazon News (@amazonnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/amazonnews/status/1351991663191871491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In The Tank For Biden: How Legacy Media, Big Tech, and Democrats Are Teaming Up

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Too many of us take for granted that we cannot be denied passage on an airplane, bus, train, or taxi.  We know that our political views will not be considered when we hop on. One cannot be turned away by any of these transportation services, nor by the post office, UPS or Fedex, even if — gasp! — you voted for Trump. Or even if you still believe that Trump won the 2020 election. Heck, you can’t be turned away even if you are a rotten person and even if you fully confess your character to the ticketing or package clerk. We know, accept, and take for granted that all of these things are irrelevant, but we don’t always think about the reason why they cannot be considered. But those reasons are important.
We cannot be turned away by these providers because they are classified as common carriers; and a common carrier may not treat you differently than anyone else, regardless of your views, beliefs, or deplorability level (unless you are actually committing an illegal act).
Common carriers provide services that transport people, packages, messages, and items along public routes and space.  They are deemed unique and important public services and not only are they prohibited from turning people away, they are not even permitted to provide better, inferior, or any differing level of service to one customer as compared to any other customer assuming, of course, that the same level of service was purchased between those customers.
Test it out! Walk up to an Amtrak, UPS, or Greyhound window in a state Bluer than the sky and emphatically say, “I voted for Trump, I have “stop the steal” signs all over my lawn, I cheated on my spouse, and I rarely pay child support or see my daughter.” They’ll still take your package. Still board you onto the bus. And, as long as you can pay for that last available, first class cabin, you’re good to go, at absolutely no risk for denial. That’s true even if the guy behind you in line is wearing a Biden/Harris button, won Vermont’s dad-of-the-year award, and is more woke than a newborn parent during the first week that the baby is at home (note to non-parents: that’s very woke).
These equal-treatment protections exist in large part because common carriers typically exert almost complete and total control over travel, communication, and navigational access to public and government lands, roads, and other spaces. Common carriers retain special privileges to access these spaces — because they typically do not own them. They are therefore granted these special privileges and, in return, are expected not to block others’ ability to navigate and access those spaces and the extremely crucial services provided by the common carriers that are connected to them.
But transportation and package delivery services are not the only common carriers with special access to public space and the corresponding sacred duty to treat all users equivalently. Title II of the Communications Act gives the FCC the authority to regulate communications common carriers, which includes the ability to determine what type of wire communications services constitute common carriers. Traditionally, and most famously, telephone companies were covered in this category.
More recently, the debate has turned to whether internet services should be covered, too.  Similar to the requirements imposed on traditional common carriers, Section 202(a) of Title II provides that “[i]t shall be unlawful for any common carrier to make any unjust or unreasonable discrimination in charges, practices, classifications, regulations, facilities, or services for or in connection with like communication service, directly or indirectly, by any means or device, or to make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, class of persons, or locality, or to subject any particular person, class of persons, or locality to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage.”
Title II clearly allows the FCC to impose common carrier status on internet services. In fact, in 2015, the Obama FCC declared Internet Service Providers (“ISPs”) such as Verizon Fios, Comcast, and Cox to be common carriers. In 2018, the Trump FCC correctly reversed this decision. In issuing the FCC’s Restoring Internet Freedom opinion, then FCC-chair, Ajit Pai, stated that the 2015 decision was erroneous because “there was no problem to solve… [t]he Internet wasn&#8217;t broken…[and] [w]e weren&#8217;t living in a digital dystopia.” Significantly, the FCC acknowledged that internet services could be classified by the Commission as common carriers, they merely indicate that ISPs were the wrong internet service, at the wrong time.
Chair Pai explained why ISPs, specifically, were the wrong internet service to target. His opinion distinguished “enhanced ”and multifaceted services such as those provided by ISPs from typical common carrier services which offer the mere transmission of information. We argue here that this would be something more akin to Twitter and other social media companies. The Commission <a href="https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-releases-restoring-internet-freedom-order">explained</a> in its opinion that the former, enhanced service, has traditionally been regulated very lightly while the latter, information transmission service, has been regulated more heavily.
The timing of Chair Pai’s opinion is crucially important. When he spoke of a lack of a digital dystopia, he was, at that time, entirely right.  But internet services, and the balance of power online, have evolved dramatically since Chair Pai issued this opinion in 2018. ISPs, once thought to hold all the power online, have instead been model citizens and exemplars of how the free markets should work. They have been nearly-ideal and neutral providers, concerned not with content, but instead with continually upgrading and improving their technological offerings in an increasingly competitive field.
Contrast that mandate and approach with the social media companies who, since the 2018 FCC opinion, have taken full control of access to the open and free exchange of ideas and information on the internet. They have blocked certain customers while promoting others, they have excluded, moderated, altered, or blocked information of which they do not approve from progressing through the internet wires, while allowing other controversial information to march through; and they have often done all of this in inconsistent, antithetical and hypocritical ways.
It is likely that even former Chair Pai (who stepped down from his post yesterday and will be replaced with Democratic acting chair), would today agree that since the NY Post was censored and blocked for posting nothing more than investigative journalism in October 2020, that we have indeed been “living in a digital dystopia” where certain kinds of social media end users are serviced less favorably than others and where certain kinds of commercial social media companies, like Parler, are treated less favorably than others.
This can all be solved — easily — by simply designating social media companies as what they truly are — common carriers.
In 2014, the influential D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals <a href="https://casetext.com/case/verizon-v-fcc-3" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://casetext.com/case/verizon-v-fcc-3&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611331750730000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHy1PvE9ISSCobtb16Qu3UMDnFHpQ">noted that</a> the FCC has a “long history of subjecting to common carrier regulation the entities that controlled the last-mile facilities over which end users accessed the Internet.” This opinion was consistent with <a href="https://itlaw.wikia.org/wiki/Computer_Inquiry_II" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://itlaw.wikia.org/wiki/Computer_Inquiry_II&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611331750730000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHNltNM_dTusCgX6PKhKNJNf-EFvA">long-held FCC position</a>, first asserted in its Second Computer Inquiry. In this opinion, the FCC explained that ISP-type services are complicated and numerous, and not focused mainly on end users. They were therefore not considered appropriate candidates for common carrier status.  At the same time, the FCC’s language strongly implied, as is supported in a number of federal court opinions, that social media companies would indeed satisfy common carrier designation because those companies do meet the FCC definition of a provider that offers one main service — information and data transmission — and services primarily end users.
The FCC would be well-advised to turn its attention away from ISPs and focus on the real threat: social media companies, and the fact that they have evaded common carrier status by cleverly remaining under the radar while quietly ramping up abuses of this status leading up to the 2020 election, in the hopes that Democrats will protect them moving forward. But this should be a bipartisan issue and concern. Social media companies have indeed created a digital dystopia and present a grave and profoundly discriminatory threat to the free exchange of ideas and information on the ultimate public space — the internet. Social media companies meet the definition of common carrier wire services under Article II, FCC guidelines, and under federal case law.  Their main function is end user information transmission through public space; and it is thus appropriate to subject them to Article II common carrier regulation. This would prevent these companies from imposing disparate treatment on customers based on opinions the companies dislike; and the FCC would be accomplishing a transcendent public service by preventing the few corporate guardians of nearly all public exchange of ideas and information on the internet from discriminating against those who wish to share their ideas with others without scrutiny of their underlying views and opinions.
If the FCC chooses not to act, then the time has come for sites like Parler and end users like you and me to take matters into our own hands and sue to have these companies designated as what they are — common carriers, who shouldn’t be treating you differently than your nicer, friendlier, or Biden-supporting neighbor.
Jeffrey Lax is an attorney, professor and department chair at the City University of New York. He has hosted talk radio programs on 770 WABC and 970 WNYM in New York and appears on Newsmax TV as a legal analyst.
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The Time Has Come: Why Social Media Platforms Are ‘Common Carriers’

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Speaking with Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday, Shep Smith appeared to slam Fox News — his former employer — as he explained why he decided to leave the network after 23 years, describing to CNN how his presence on Fox was “untenable as opinion shows on the network spread falsehoods that hosts knew were lies.”
Smith joined Fox News in 1996 when the organization was founded, and left in October 2019 in the middle of a three-year contract. He now hosts “The News with Shepard Smith,” on CNBC. Speaking with Amanpour, Smith was asked whether Fox News “perpetuated so many of the divisions, the lies, the conspiracies,” with the goal of becoming “the propaganda arm of the Republican Party.”
“Opine all you like, but if you’re going to opine, begin with the truth and opine from there,” Smith responded. “And it&#8217;s that deviation from that that has caused me the greatest concern.”
“I believe that when people begin with a false premise and lead people to astray, that’s injurious to society, and it’s the antithesis of what we should be doing,” Smith said. “Those of us who are so honored and grateful to have a platform of influence have to use it for the public good.”
Back in 2019, CNN’s Brian Stelter <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/11/media/fox-news-shepard-smith/index.html">wrote</a> that Fox News’ “lack of a vocal defense for Smith” following Tucker Carlson’s apparent criticism of the anchor “bothered him and the whole episode factored into his decision to leave,” and “was just one of many skirmishes that weighed heavily on Smith.” Sean Hannity, another major Fox News star, reportedly called Smith “so anti-Trump” on his radio show, and “clueless” on Twitter, according to <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/shepard-smith-lashes-out-former-fox-news-colleagues-spreading-disinformation-1563033?amp=1">Newsweek</a>.
The bulk of Smith’s criticism centered around the accusation that Fox News is engaging in the intentional spread of misinformation and disinformation,
“I stuck with it as long as I could, and at some point, I realized I’ve reached a point of diminishing returns and I left,” said Smith. “But I’m proud of the work that we did there.”
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“I don’t know how some people sleep at night,” Smith added. “I know that there are a lot of people who have propagated the lies and have pushed them forward over and over again who are smart enough and educated enough to know better.”
“If you feel like the Fox viewers were getting mis- or disinformation, I was there to make sure that they got it straight,” Smith said. “There were a lot of others in there who were trying to do the same thing. But I thought to just abandon it and to deprive those viewers &#8230; to deny them that, with the thought that they might replace it with opinion instead, seemed a little selfish. So I stuck with it for as long as I could.”
While Smith left Fox News in 2019 as a daytime host, such comments add to the commentary regarding changes that are ongoing at the conservative media giant, who recently announced a “<a href="https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/fox-news-channel-shake-up-daytime-schedule-1234882414/">revamp”</a> of their daytime schedule.
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Joe Biden, who for the first 65 or 70 years of his life showed no interest in trans issues, and never hinted at a belief that biological males can be women if they feel like they are, has now become, after just one day in office, the most radically pro-trans president in history. At the ripe old age of 78, Biden is governing much like a 19-year-old college student who just took her first gender studies class might. 
Biden made his first pro-trans step before he took office, naming Rachel Levine, the current Health Secretary of Pennsylvania, as his assistant Health and Human Services secretary. Levine is a male who believes himself to be a woman. This, we are told, makes the pick &#8220;historic.&#8221; But what really makes it historic is that Levine is probably the first assistant Health and Human Services secretary to be appointed despite overseeing a disastrous pandemic response that resulted in the deaths of <a href="https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/68-of-pennsylvania-coronavirus-deaths-are-from-nursing-and-personal-care-homes/article_22baa7c2-e181-11ea-88ce-5f7bae6c70c2.html">thousands</a> of elderly people. Pennsylvania was among the states that, early on, <a href="https://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/news/20200501/states-ordered-nursing-homes-to-take-covid-19-residents-thousands-died-how-it-happened">required</a> nursing homes to accept patients who had previously tested positive for the virus.
But even if we put the deaths of thousands of elderly aside — which we certainly shouldn&#8217;t — still we&#8217;re left with the fact that Pennsylvania’s COVID death rate is on the higher end of the spectrum. The death rate in the state is 155 per 100,000. By comparison, deaths in Florida are at 114 per 100,000, according to <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_casesper100klast7days">the CDC&#8217;s latest figures</a>. The media tells us that Florida has been a disaster zone. Well, what does that say about Pennsylvania? One of the main officials overseeing this disaster has now been given a promotion, apparently based more on identity than merit. 
Meanwhile, on his first day in office, Joe Biden issued a flurry of executive orders in hopes of essentially overturning and erasing Trump’s entire tenure through executive fiat. One such order is aimed at “Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation.” It reads, in part:  
<blockquote>By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Every person should be treated with respect and dignity and should be able to live without fear, no matter who they are or whom they love. Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports.</blockquote>
The problem, first of all, is that no child was ever being &#8220;denied access to the restroom, locker room, or school sports.&#8221; Boys have always been perfectly free to use the boys room and play on boy sports teams. Gender confused boys have always been just as welcome to use the same facilities and take advantage of the same athletic opportunities as any other boy.
The question is whether a boy who says he&#8217;s trans should have access to any restroom he wants, or any sports team he wants, even if it means infringing on the rights of biological girls. The answer to that question, from any sane and moral person, is no. It is a simple matter of common sense and basic moral decency. Obviously, we should not compel young girls to disrobe in locker rooms in front of boys, nor should we force them to sacrifice spots on their teams for boys who have inherent biological advantages over them, no matter how a small minority of gender confused boys might feel about it.
The second problem is that the Constitution in no way whatsoever vests in the president the authority to decide which sports teams a child can play on, or which locker rooms they may use. This, by any reasonable interpretation, is not a legal power granted to the president. In fact, no human, anywhere, has the legitimate moral or legal authority to demand that girls share locker rooms with boys. Anyone who enacts or enforces such a policy is infringing on the human rights of those girls, and thus acting in a fundamentally unlawful way.
Yet Joe Biden has claimed this authority for himself. And this is so important to him — it is apparently so crucial, in his mind, that girls be forced to expose themselves in front of biological boys — that he made it a Day One priority. People are dying every hour in a pandemic (as the media has constantly reminded us) while our new president is focused on forcing the sexual desegregation of children&#8217;s bathrooms. Joe Biden&#8217;s political brand has always been that of a &#8220;normal&#8221; and &#8220;decent&#8221; man. But these are neither normal nor decent actions. These are the actions of either a deranged, amoral pervert, or else of a hapless, gutless coward, enacting someone else&#8217;s agenda because he lacks the spine or mental capacity to do the right thing. In this case, I suspect the answer is a little bit of both.
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WALSH: A Return To ‘Normalcy’ And ‘Decency’ Under Biden Means Forcing Girls To Share Bathrooms With Boys

Joe Biden, who for the first 65 or 70 years of his life showed no interest in trans issues, and never hinted at a belief that biological males can be women if they feel like they are, has now become, after just one day in office, the most radically pro-trans president in history. At the ripe old age of 78, Biden is governing much like a 19-year-old college student who just took her first gender studies class might. 

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President-elect Joe Biden recently <a href="https://buildbackbetter.gov/press-releases/president-elect-joe-biden-announces-dr-rachel-levine-as-assistant-secretary-for-health-at-the-u-s-department-of-health-and-human-services/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://buildbackbetter.gov/press-releases/president-elect-joe-biden-announces-dr-rachel-levine-as-assistant-secretary-for-health-at-the-u-s-department-of-health-and-human-services/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611265056214000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEp6w4fND2YBPaNT0Cc6UQFa-nPmA">announced</a> that he will appoint Dr. Rachel Levine as Assistant Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Calling Levine a “deeply qualified choice to help lead our administration’s health efforts,” the former Vice President said that Levine would help Americans — “no matter their zip code, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability” — navigate the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rising to prominence since the advent of COVID-19 in the United States, Levine is the face of Pennsylvania’s response to the virus. His tenure as Pennsylvania Secretary of Health under Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf has been rife with controversy.
Here are five things you should know about Levine as he makes his debut in national politics.
Openly Transgender
Formerly known as Richard, Levine <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200329053607/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/meet-rachel-levine-one-of-the-very-few-transgender-public-officials-in-america/2016/06/01/cf6e2332-2415-11e6-8690-f14ca9de2972_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://web.archive.org/web/20200329053607/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/meet-rachel-levine-one-of-the-very-few-transgender-public-officials-in-america/2016/06/01/cf6e2332-2415-11e6-8690-f14ca9de2972_story.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611265056214000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF25a4VJXZ7li0MV1axXZocEhx8Eg">underwent</a> several years of therapy before informing friends and family in 2011 that he would transition to female. Levine and his wife, who have two children, divorced two years later.
When Gov. Wolf asked Levine to join his administration as Physician General in 2015, Levine was one of the few transgender government officials in the entire United States.
The Biden-Harris transition team’s press release boasted that Levine would be “the first openly transgender Senate-confirmed federal official” if his nomination is successful.
Led Pennsylvania COVID Response
Levine is currently leading Pennsylvania’s response to COVID-19 as the state government’s top health official.
Levine’s primary medical experience is in pediatrics and psychiatry. After graduating from Harvard College and the Tulane University School of Medicine, Levine <a href="https://www.health.pa.gov/About/Pages/Leadership.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.health.pa.gov/About/Pages/Leadership.aspx&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611265056214000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFwclV1nTy9Qmqv0H8_tv32nJ6p8Q">worked</a> as Chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine and Eating Disorders at Penn State’s Hershey Medical Center until his entrance into the state government.
As Secretary of Health, Levine has favored a heavy-handed approach to slowing the spread of COVID-19. In addition to a statewide lockdown in the spring of 2020, Levine led the Wolf administration in launching a second round of harsh restrictions before the holiday season. From December 12 to January 4, indoor dining was <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/12/10/pennsylvania-coronavirus-lockdowns-ban-indoor-dining-large-gatherings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://dailycaller.com/2020/12/10/pennsylvania-coronavirus-lockdowns-ban-indoor-dining-large-gatherings/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611265056214000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH0-CesrFOwV6jATJuHtlEgrXQI6A">prohibited</a> across the entire state.
Levine has little to show for his draconian approach to the pandemic. As of January 18, Pennsylvania <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611265056214000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE4YvQV6oSey7HQ4FDGLcua2CLVgg">boasted</a> the twelfth-highest COVID-19 death rate in the United States.
Pulled Mom Out Of Nursing Home Despite State Orders
Joining other politicians across the United States in <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/05/13/pennsylvania-health-official-moved-mother-from-nursing-home/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nypost.com/2020/05/13/pennsylvania-health-official-moved-mother-from-nursing-home/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611265056214000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEmbBClB9g9kxJ5MDw7xzudov1tEA">neglecting</a> their own COVID-19 orders, Levine pulled his mother out of her nursing home as the virus ravaged Pennsylvania’s elderly population.
In a move <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pa-health-official-tasked-with-overseeing-nursing-homes-pulled-out-own-mother-while-policies-wreaked-havoc" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailywire.com/news/pa-health-official-tasked-with-overseeing-nursing-homes-pulled-out-own-mother-while-policies-wreaked-havoc&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611265056214000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHKUhTR-KKYa3pJWmBm-jgTSbf4qg">authorized</a> by Levine, Pennsylvania was one of the few states that forced nursing homes to accept COVID-19 positive residents or face disciplinary action. As a result, over 70% of Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 deaths occurred in long-term care facilities during the first months of the pandemic.
In the midst of this crisis, Levine removed his 95-year-old mother from her personal care home.
“My mother requested, and my sister and I as her children complied, to move her to another location during the COVID-19 outbreak,” Levine said in May, ­according to <a href="https://www.abc27.com/news/pennsylvania/pennsylvania-health-secretary-offers-guidance-governor-insists-on-gradual-reopening/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.abc27.com/news/pennsylvania/pennsylvania-health-secretary-offers-guidance-governor-insists-on-gradual-reopening/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611265056214000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHvuV4o1eUB_34rIGBkAKN1RBgO3g">ABC27</a>.
Served In LGBTQ Group ‘Equality Pennsylvania’
Levine <a href="https://www.phillymag.com/news/2020/07/16/rachel-levine-pennsylvania-health/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.phillymag.com/news/2020/07/16/rachel-levine-pennsylvania-health/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611265056214000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEDSVbKEq1h925nx8LC85z-73THwg">served</a> as a board member for Equality Pennsylvania, an advocacy group that advocated for LGBTQ+ policies in the years before same-sex marriage was legalized.
The organization was part of the Equality Federation, which <a href="https://www.equalityfederation.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.equalityfederation.org/about/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611265056214000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFgV5myR1OhnmU_ZND5U8b8a16_kw">pushes</a> for transgender bathroom laws, workplace equality, and “reproductive justice.”
Equality Pennsylvania <a href="https://archive.is/20130202074444/http://www.sims4pa.com/content/brian-sims-endorsed-liberty-city-and-equality-pa" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://archive.is/20130202074444/http://www.sims4pa.com/content/brian-sims-endorsed-liberty-city-and-equality-pa&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611265056214000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHHZY0FwQUd8FKdZ-dDNYgiV3rp9w">endorsed</a> several pro-LGBTQ+ politicians in Pennsylvania, one of which was Brian Sims — a state representative who gained <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGnca00xtBk&amp;t=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DHGnca00xtBk%26t%3D&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611265056214000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEh13c54hs5aky6IoXnsfG3bt8jAQ">notoriety</a> after he harassed three teenage girls who were quietly praying in front of a Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Philadelphia.
Asked Radio Host To Stop ‘Misgendering’
As thousands of Pennsylvanians were dying of COVID-19 in May 2020, Levine <a href="https://spectator.us/topic/misgendering-rachel-levine-pennsylvania-covid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://spectator.us/topic/misgendering-rachel-levine-pennsylvania-covid/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611265056214000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHAWU5QNzRbvc8xuRTfAmAIMyUHaA">gained</a> more national attention after lambasting a local radio host for “misgendering.”
KDKA-AM host Marty Griffith accidentally called Levine “sir” several times during a press call. Levine demanded that Griffith apologize, insisting that the slip-up was “really insulting.”
“I apologize. I apologized twice. I truly did. It was not intentional. It was not. I was not focused. I was doing six things at once,” pleaded Griffith on Twitter.
#RespectforRachel soon began trending on social media. In the aftermath of the incident Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto (D-PA) canceled an interview with KDKA-AM, explaining that he would “not support [their] behavior.”
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With the mayhem that unfolded in the Capitol building still fresh on everyone’s minds, David Bauder of the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-capitol-siege-riots-media-8000ce7db2b176c1be386d945be5fd6a">Associated Press</a> attempted to explore the terminology used to describe the events that took place on January 6th. Unfortunately, his efforts were really just a kind of duplicity masquerading as some candid, nuanced discussion. Yes, “words matter,” but not when employed with such a high degree of subterfuge. 
Initially, Bauder openly pondered what exact terms befit the violence on Capitol Hill. It seems rioting, chaos, and mayhem were too lackluster and inopportune. Perhaps, it was an “insurrection, domestic terrorism, or even a coup attempt,” Bauder opined. He finally settled on labeling it a “siege,” as though yielding to such a brazen and belligerent term that brought to mind moats and catapults made his bias any less evident. 
Most concerning, however, was his attempt to make the Capitol Hill riots somehow distinct from the months of looting and destruction during the BLM protests over the summer that laid waste to cities all across our nation. 
Bauder argued that the very use of the term “riot” in relation to the BLM protests was now “fraught with racial connotations” because “it…too quickly applied to situations involving Black Americans.” 
In fact, the <a href="https://twitter.com/APStylebook/status/1311357910715371520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1311357910715371520%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.yahoo.com%2Fap-stylebook-discourages-riot-expands-201233563.html">AP Stylebook</a> has completely redefined such terms along obtuse and distinctly racial lines. For much of the media, referring to the BLM protests as a “riot” or in any potentially negative capacity is now deemed, essentially, racist: 
<blockquote>“Focusing on rioting and property destruction rather than underlying grievance has been used in the past to stigmatize broad swaths of people protesting against lynching, police brutality or for racial justice, going back to the urban uprisings of the 1960s.
Unrest is a vaguer, milder and less emotional term for a condition of angry discontent and protest verging on revolt.
Protest and demonstration refer to specific actions such as marches, sit-ins, rallies or other actions meant to register dissent. They can be legal or illegal, organized or spontaneous, peaceful or violent, and involve any number of people.”</blockquote>
And now we approach the crux of the matter: David Bauder and the AP are not attempting to discuss the complexities of language and meaning under volatile circumstances. They are simply trying to monopolize and manipulate definitions to further a dishonest progressive agenda. 
Apparently, a whole collection of terms can be used to describe the violence and chaos that occurred on Capitol Hill, but not even the term “riot” is allowed to describe the burning buildings, the destruction of small businesses, or the rampant looting that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-mocked-for-fiery-but-mostly-peaceful-protests-tv-chyron-shown-in-front-of-kenosha-fire">took place before our very eyes</a> during the BLM “protests.”
In her piece for <a href="https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2021/01/15/associated-press-explains-difference-riot-riot/">Hot Air</a>, Jazz Shaw drives the point home: 
<blockquote>“What should the press call it when a mob in Portland or Seattle or New York or Philadelphia suddenly breaks off from a demonstration and begins throwing Molotov cocktails at police cruisers, burning down precinct stations and federal courthouses, physically assaulting law enforcement officers, breaking windows, and looting businesses? It certainly sounds like a ‘violent public disorder’ by ‘three or more people,’ doesn’t it? So it’s a riot.”</blockquote>
Something even more pernicious is at play, though, as our very language is being racialized and contorted by the AP and other major legacy media outlets to conform to decidedly progressive beliefs like “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/antiracism-is-a-booming-business">antiracism</a>” or “systemic racism.” 
By adding endless qualifiers to definitions specifically for black Americans in the name of “social justice,” they are yielding to a virulent kind of racism. In effect, they assume an inferior standing for black Americans within the broader culture and treat them as automatons bound by history and race rather than as individuals with equal amounts of agency. 
Lauded black scholar, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/dehumanizing-condescension-white-fragility/614146/">John McWhorter</a>, refers to this patronizing disregard for agency on the part of antiracism crusaders as “an elaborate and pitilessly dehumanizing condescension toward Black people.”
Glenn Loury, a renowned black professor and economist, also elaborates on this inherently racist notion for <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/glenn-loury-on-systemic-racism-trump-blm">City Journal</a>:  
<blockquote>“The removal of agency is a deep concern of mine. The tone of the conversation here in the U.S. in the last ten years has shifted to notions of systemic racism, white supremacy, and so on, as if those facts alone determine the outcomes in the schools and neighborhoods and prisons of America…I think that is a bogus argument, an argument of surrender, and it leaves one, oddly, petitioning the putative oppressor to save you from the consequences of his oppression.”</blockquote>
Loury adds that “[s]tructural racism is a bluff” and “a bullying tactic” meant to shut people up. If David Bauder’s piece alongside the AP’s new guidelines for terms like “riot” is any indication, Loury’s assertion is proving correct. 
The ongoing manipulation and monopolizing of language by the likes of the Associated Press should be a genuine cause for concern as divisions deepen all around us. It’s not meant to add nuance or complexity to our understanding. It’s meant to constrain us even further. While the Orwellian undertones seem self-evident, the prejudice that informs such tactics is not. Now more than ever, it’s imperative that we strive toward honest assessments of events in our nation, regardless of optics or outcomes. 
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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Associated Press Admits They Use Race To Choose Between ‘Protest’ And ‘Riot’

With the mayhem that unfolded in the Capitol building still fresh on everyone’s minds, David Bauder of the Associated Press attempted to explore the

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While many focused on Inauguration Day for its political implications, seeing President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris as the center of attention, someone else stole the show. 
Sen. Bernie Sanders rose as Inauguration Day’s standout star, whose cross-legged seated stance in coat and mittens instantly became an internet meme, triggering a wave of reproductions and parodies. Here are just some of the highlights.
Friends
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One of the best? <a href="https://t.co/cTkB9WHwXw">pic.twitter.com/cTkB9WHwXw</a>
&mdash; Ian G Haworth (@ighaworth) <a href="https://twitter.com/ighaworth/status/1352382755967913984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Big Bang Theory
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BernieSanders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BernieSanders</a> &quot;You&#39;re in my spot&quot; <a href="https://t.co/fSi0s9hVoh">pic.twitter.com/fSi0s9hVoh</a>
&mdash; Gianluca (@GianlucaHS) <a href="https://twitter.com/GianlucaHS/status/1352235276689674240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The Bachelor’s meme within a meme
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Whoever made this one is genius. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BernieSanders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BernieSanders</a> <a href="https://t.co/k26AKbqvkS">pic.twitter.com/k26AKbqvkS</a>
&mdash; Berni (@ScentsbyBerni) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScentsbyBerni/status/1352121581556916225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Historic NYC Skyscraper
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Why do y’all play so much? Get Bernie down from there 😂 <a href="https://t.co/9ik2VMSoGN">pic.twitter.com/9ik2VMSoGN</a>
&mdash; 👑🖤 (@iwrightmusic) <a href="https://twitter.com/iwrightmusic/status/1352010631671500800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Guy Fieri
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Not me. Us. <a href="https://t.co/ec7XgfEl7b">pic.twitter.com/ec7XgfEl7b</a>
&mdash; Guy Fieri (@GuyFieri) <a href="https://twitter.com/GuyFieri/status/1352319386007330817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Sex And The City
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The new Samantha!!!! <a href="https://t.co/jF0pTV20qo">pic.twitter.com/jF0pTV20qo</a>
&mdash; Matthew Wilkas (@MattWilkas) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWilkas/status/1352136178863140865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Forrest Gump
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
Has this been done yet?<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bernie?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bernie</a> <a href="https://t.co/embv3a1iWM">pic.twitter.com/embv3a1iWM</a>
&mdash; #onpoli #cdnpoli (@MarcInTheCity) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarcInTheCity/status/1352115126711832576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Ben Roethlisberger
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 <a href="https://t.co/XshMZPAFIN">pic.twitter.com/XshMZPAFIN</a>
&mdash; Beth Hartzell (@betHartz84) <a href="https://twitter.com/betHartz84/status/1352125412319649792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Last Supper
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Some of my best work honestly <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BernieSanders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BernieSanders</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheLastSupper?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheLastSupper</a> <a href="https://t.co/T289rAQfUN">pic.twitter.com/T289rAQfUN</a>
&mdash; chelsea (@chelsealeite) <a href="https://twitter.com/chelsealeite/status/1352017967450611712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Ru Paul’s Drag Race
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And this weeks ✨Extra✨ special guest judge! <a href="https://t.co/tg0Af8FR0S">pic.twitter.com/tg0Af8FR0S</a>
&mdash; Katrina Waters (@MsKatrinaWaters) <a href="https://twitter.com/MsKatrinaWaters/status/1352059228521902081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Bird Box
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Bern Box<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BernieSanders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BernieSanders</a> <a href="https://t.co/cRppsNLxJX">pic.twitter.com/cRppsNLxJX</a>
&mdash; Wirjil (@Wirjil) <a href="https://twitter.com/Wirjil/status/1352139570335408130?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Ancient Rome
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BernieSanders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BernieSanders</a> took me a minute to find him 😂😂 <a href="https://t.co/xRCkXz8drb">pic.twitter.com/xRCkXz8drb</a>
&mdash; Megan ⚓️ (@Megan0903) <a href="https://twitter.com/Megan0903/status/1352311952480022528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Friday
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Did anybody do this one yet? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BernieSanders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BernieSanders</a> <a href="https://t.co/OfxeGCB58a">pic.twitter.com/OfxeGCB58a</a>
&mdash; EROCK (@Eric_Emanuele) <a href="https://twitter.com/Eric_Emanuele/status/1352239734140137479?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Golden Girls
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Too funny ❤️ ❤️❤️<a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a>. I can’t stop 🤣🤣🤣🤣. My stomach hurts! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BernieSanders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BernieSanders</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/berniesmittens?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#berniesmittens</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/reactiontheory?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#reactiontheory</a> <a href="https://t.co/upbZxHoXrY">pic.twitter.com/upbZxHoXrY</a>
&mdash; Reaction Theory (@ReactionTheory1) <a href="https://twitter.com/ReactionTheory1/status/1352094261844520960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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And the memes kept on coming&#8230;
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Can&#39;t stop won&#39;t stop. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BernieSanders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BernieSanders</a> <a href="https://t.co/l6ZW808v3X">pic.twitter.com/l6ZW808v3X</a>
&mdash; Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) <a href="https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1352121959291760641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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some album covers with cold Bernie <a href="https://t.co/teg6TWBdXV">pic.twitter.com/teg6TWBdXV</a>
&mdash; Pigeons &amp; Planes (@PigsAndPlans) <a href="https://twitter.com/PigsAndPlans/status/1351957880958758912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The best Bernie memes I saw <a href="https://t.co/mwq6stLV7Z">pic.twitter.com/mwq6stLV7Z</a>
&mdash; David Leavitt (@David_Leavitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/David_Leavitt/status/1352054800939151362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Bernie Inauguration Meme Steals The Show: Here Are Some Of The Best

While many focused on Inauguration Day for its political implications, seeing President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris as the center of

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Everything You Need To Know About Joe Biden’s ‘Day One’ Executive Actions

On Wednesday, Joe Biden was officially inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States and took a series of actions to roll back major executive

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On Wednesday, a boy who had allegedly been solicited and recruited for sex trafficking as a minor then, after escaping, reportedly had to endure child sexual abuse material depicting him promoted on Twitter, sued Twitter.
The <a href="https://endsexualexploitation.org/wp-content/uploads/Doe-v-Twitter_FiledComplaint_012021.pdf">lawsuit asserts</a>, “This lawsuit seeks to shine a light on how Twitter has enabled and profited from CSAM (child sexual abuse material) on its platform, choosing profits over people, money over the safety of children, and wealth at the expense of human freedom and human dignity.”
“Twitter is not a passive, inactive, intermediary in the distribution of this harmful material; rather, Twitter has adopted an active role in the dissemination and knowing promotion and distribution of this harmful material. Twitter’s own policies, practices, business model, and technology architecture encourage and profit from the distribution of sexual exploitation material,” the lawsuit continues.
The lawsuit is suing Twitter for damages &#8220;under the federal Trafficking Victims’ Protection Reauthorization Act, Failure to Report Child Sexual Abuse Material, Receipt and Distribution of Child Pornography, and related state law.&#8221; The claimant  alleges that Twitter &#8220;knowingly hosted sexual exploitation material, including child sex abuse material (referred to in some instances as child pornography), and allowed human trafficking and the dissemination of child sexual abuse material to continue on its platform, therefore profiting from the harmful and exploitive material and the traffic it draws.”
“Defendant has benefited financially and/or received something of value from participation in one or more sex trafficking ventures by allowing Twitter to become a safe haven and a refuge for, ‘minor attracted people,’  human traffickers, and discussion of ‘child sexual exploitation as a phenomenon,’ to include trade and dissemination of sexual abuse material,” the lawsuit states.
Noting Twitter’s capacity for censorship, the lawsuit continues: &#8220;Twitter has a variety of mechanisms used to moderate content on the platform. Upon information and belief, Twitter uses software and algorithms to ensure tweets reach a smaller audience, block users from tweeting, hide tweets from users in a specific country, hide user profiles, convert users into read-only mode, temporarily lock users out of their account until account verification, and permanently suspend accounts. Rather than act decisively by banning certain types of behavior and allowing others, Twitter’s policy and engineering teams sometimes de-emphasize content and allow users to hide content that may be offensive but not explicitly against the platform’s terms of service.&#8221;
The lawsuit highlights Twitters&#8217; &#8220;<a href="https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/sexual-exploitation-policy">zero-tolerance child sexual exploitation policy</a>,&#8221; which forbids the following:
Any content that depicts or promotes child sexual exploitation including, but not limited to: 
<ul>
<li>visual depictions of a child engaging in sexually explicit or sexually suggestive acts;</li>
<li>illustrated, computer-generated or other forms of realistic depictions of a human child in a sexually explicit context, or engaging in sexually explicit acts; </li>
<li>sexualized commentaries about or directed at a known or unknown minor; and</li>
<li>links to third-party sites that host child sexual exploitation material.</li>
</ul>
The following behaviors are also not permitted: 
<ul>
<li>sharing fantasies about or promoting engagement in child sexual exploitation;</li>
<li>expressing a desire to obtain materials that feature child sexual exploitation;</li>
<li>recruiting, advertising or expressing an interest in a commercial sex act involving a child, or in harboring and/or transporting a child for sexual purposes;</li>
<li>sending sexually explicit media to a child;</li>
<li>engaging or trying to engage a child in a sexually explicit conversation;</li>
<li>trying to obtain sexually explicit media from a child or trying to engage a child in sexual activity  through blackmail or other incentives;</li>
<li>identifying alleged victims of childhood sexual exploitation by name or image; and</li>
<li>promoting or normalizing sexual attraction to minors as a form of identity or sexual orientation. </li>
</ul>
&#8220;Notwithstanding its stated policy, Twitter permits large amounts of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation material on its platform, despite having both the ability to monitor it, and actual and/or constructive knowledge of its posting on the platform,&#8221; the lawsuit claims. &#8220;Twitter also contains significant pornographic content, including illegal child sexual abuse content. Twitter permits numerous profiles, posts, comments, and other content either advertising, soliciting, or depicting CSAM.&#8221;
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Sex Trafficking Victim Sues Twitter After Images Of His Abuse Shared On Platform

On Wednesday, a boy who had allegedly been solicited and recruited for sex trafficking as a minor then, after escaping, reportedly had to endure child sexual abuse material depicting him promoted on Twitter, sued Twitter.

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Following the 2016 election, the Left launched their resistance movement with baseless Russian conspiracies, massive marches, “Orange Man Bad,” and whatever the media decided to run with that day.
Now, it’s the conservatives’ turn to launch our own resistance movement. However, our movement can’t be driven by hashtags like #NotMyPresident, genitalia hats, or riots.
For too long, conservatives have surrendered the culture war to the Left, but it’s time to reenter the battle with full force. We will pray for the success of the Biden administration, but will also hold it accountable. We will fight back against indoctrination in our schools, we will push back against Big Tech’s monopoly over public discourse, we will grow the pro-life movement, and we will elevate those with a backbone, principles, and the will to advocate for conservatism. And you know what? Conservatives should and will enjoy resisting by these methods every step of the way. We will not be a movement of misery, but a movement of determination and positivity.
The best part about this new agenda is that we have the tools to accomplish it.
We hold a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court, and while the Senate is split, we grew our numbers in the House, and even <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/republicans-hold-off-democratic-bid-to-flip-state-legislatures-11604584839" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.wsj.com/articles/republicans-hold-off-democratic-bid-to-flip-state-legislatures-11604584839&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611245840722000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHyC8k4xPQToB6WGmS4PiH8qUW10Q">expanded</a> our control to the majority of state legislature chambers. We also have a rapidly growing conservative media industry.
Conservatives were too comfortable during the Trump administration. While we were confident because of our control of the White House, we didn’t pay close enough attention to Big Tech, the entertainment industry, cable news, and most importantly, K-12 and higher education.
In the coming years, we in conservative politics need to spend our days putting the Biden administration under a magnifying glass and calling out every hypocrisy. We will not let the Biden administration get away with making the same bad deals, supporting regimes that call for our destruction, engaging in endless identity politics to divide us, or undermining the American dream.
Those who do not work in conservative politics, but are conservative, need to engage in the culture war. The first task is to give a voice to the so-called “silent majority.” We cannot allow ourselves to be silenced by our peers, colleagues, or neighbors because of our beliefs. We must halt the denormalization and vilification of conservatism. If we do not accomplish this, all other battles in the culture war will be next to impossible to win.
In recent years, the conservative movement has become the movement of America. Many on the Left have abandoned the principles of our Constitutional founding and are attempting to shift the American narrative. Through the 1619 Project, which is now integrated into thousands of our schools, the Left has exposed the future they want — a future we cannot let them have. Their ultimate goal is to tear down and reconstruct America, rather than acknowledge our faults and fix them while still living up to our foundational principles.
Their foolish decision to rewrite American history and to shame Americans for exhibiting their patriotism has brought new people to our side, and will continue to help us if we constantly shine a light on the Left’s radical path. The demographic breakdown of the 2020 Election shows that the party <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-increases-share-black-hispanic-vote-1544698" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-increases-share-black-hispanic-vote-1544698&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611245840722000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFTIuJKdJt-RMXnXxY_797gZQs5FA">is expanding</a> in key categories, with Trump <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/trump-wins-highest-percent-nonwhite-voters-any-republican-60-years-doubles-lgbtq-support-2016-1545294" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.newsweek.com/trump-wins-highest-percent-nonwhite-voters-any-republican-60-years-doubles-lgbtq-support-2016-1545294&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611245840722000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEI8M4-Wq1rx61IqLAMVvxXHoFyuA">winning</a> the most non-white voters as a Republican in 60 years.
With a 4% gain, winning 32% of Hispanic voters, and a 5% gain with 18% of black male voters, and a doubling in black female voters to 8% —according to exit polls — it seems that a seismic shift is underway. The Republican Party, under Donald Trump, has been widely embraced by the working class — those “forgotten Americans” who still believe the American Dream exists.
The Republican Party must embrace this new reality and do everything we can to foster and expand our changing voter base. This means not returning to the old, stale ways of corporatism and elitism. The new party must make the culture war a fundamental focal point with pro-American values setting the stage. This will require younger figures who not only believe the conservative message, but are adept at bringing new people in through more relatable and modern methods.
As 2021 continues, we will hear from the center-right that a return to the complacent attitudes of the past is the way forward. They are wrong. Such arguments amount to nothing more than spinelessness and an illusion of politics returning to the boring sideshow that most Americans couldn’t care less about. This is not the way of the future.  We, the younger generation of Americans, have had politics thrown into our faces at every step of early adulthood. And the generation after us will be exposed much earlier.
I am not calling for us to take the mantle of inflammatory or violent rhetoric that demonizes those who disagree with us. I am calling on the conservative movement to have decency while also holding fast to our values, and to be unapologetically proud of them.
We must be a movement with a backbone, a movement of patriots who won’t back down, a movement of strong conservatives ready to be ambassadors who win over others to our side.
Most of all, we must be a movement of resistance that goes on the offensive (peacefully) for the next four years, and has fun doing so.
Kassy Dillon is a political commentator, host of The Kassy Dillon Show, founder and president of Lone Conservative, and a graduate student at the Pepperdine School of Public Policy. 
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Following the 2016 election, the Left launched their resistance movement with baseless Russian conspiracies, massive marches, “Orange Man Bad,” and

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On January 20, former Vice President Joe Biden officially became President of the United States. An emboldened wave of cancel culture marked the weeks leading up to his inauguration. American institutions — such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-big-techs-bullying-of-parler-and-non-compliance-with-section-230-could-lead-to-its-demise" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-big-techs-bullying-of-parler-and-non-compliance-with-section-230-could-lead-to-its-demise&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611271256910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG6u5_qrk6Bs-SNip7l1nGv-ZotdA">Big Tech</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kristy-swanson-demands-her-removal-from-all-john-hughes-movies-if-trump-gets-erased-from-home-alone-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailywire.com/news/kristy-swanson-demands-her-removal-from-all-john-hughes-movies-if-trump-gets-erased-from-home-alone-2&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611271256910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFiNWTBPNtCfV5lIW7CHpPFvKiLIg">Hollywood</a> — hit the gas on their eternal endeavor to rid the airwaves of former President Donald Trump and his supporters.
Meanwhile, academia — one of the most left-leaning <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prager-what-american-schools-should-teach-about-race-racism-and-slavery" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailywire.com/news/prager-what-american-schools-should-teach-about-race-racism-and-slavery&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611271256910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHrjIgJWtVD42rwI-iVQusnTpQDqg">institutions</a> in the nation — launched their own renewed cancel culture campaign.
Students, professors, and alumni at the nation’s leading universities are demanding that administrators preemptively bar former Trump administration officials from teaching positions and guest speaking opportunities. Others are calling for the revocation of Republican lawmakers’ degrees.
The charges range from “opposition to science” to “open sedition against the United States of America.” Predictably, some academics compared Trump officials to orchestrators of the Holocaust.
Here are five examples of the ivory tower’s latest cancel culture crusade.
Harvard University
Students at America’s most iconic university <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16208" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.campusreform.org/article?id%3D16208&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611271256910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHxaykG802r40Gm9GZtK0aaFTcPeA">wrote</a> to their administrators, demanding that they withhold speaking engagements and teaching positions from Trump administration alumni.
The <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdDv8__z2N-f8oLGRrlgqcPm5ITy-pZ5zttcJ1kVC1XBkHnCg/viewform?gxids=7757" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdDv8__z2N-f8oLGRrlgqcPm5ITy-pZ5zttcJ1kVC1XBkHnCg/viewform?gxids%3D7757&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611271256910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHgwwR6w9hUBEFc8-5PpNAIHJUiyA">letter</a> frames this decision as a “system of accountability” for the officials’ alleged opposition to “free and honest inquiry in the unfettered pursuit of truth, the right to vote, a free and independent press, checks and balances, the peaceful transfer of power, and the rule of law.”
The students nevertheless insisted that they are “fully committed to free speech and debate of difficult subjects.”
Weeks later, another petition from Harvard community members <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-students-petition-for-trump-allied-graduates-to-lose-degrees" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-students-petition-for-trump-allied-graduates-to-lose-degrees&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611271256910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG4exbzKDUfgmUNmAZtTFRpvPm9OA">urged</a> that the school revoke the degrees of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), and outgoing White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.
Citing the January 6 Capitol Hill attack, the authors alleged that the three prominent Republicans “do not and should not represent a university committed to ‘strengthening democracy’ and ‘the advancement of justice.’”
Although the three officials appear to be safe for now, one Harvard alumna was not so lucky. The university <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16633" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.campusreform.org/article?id%3D16633&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611271256910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGxOkQ1UqcQw3X0PT_bSqKHmuAdYw">kicked</a> Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) from the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics’ Senior Advisory Committee, citing her objection to four states’ Electoral College votes.
In defiance, Rep. Stefanik stated that it was a “rite of passage and badge of honor” to be canceled by her alma mater, declaring that it had caved to the “woke far-Left.”
George Washington University
Students at George Washington University <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16258" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.campusreform.org/article?id%3D16258&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611271256910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE0IlN-f98zXWpWZHoPh7_A4ympIA">echoed</a> the demands of their fellow Jacobins at Harvard in demanding that their school refuse to hire Trump alumni.
The managing director of student newspaper <a href="https://www.gwhatchet.com/2020/11/19/gw-should-not-hire-any-former-members-of-the-trump-administration/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.gwhatchet.com/2020/11/19/gw-should-not-hire-any-former-members-of-the-trump-administration/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611271256910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGzY_nZ5kNNkN36oOCLlP1AzjhPZw">The GW Hatchet</a> argued that “universities should not be in the business of hiring people who were complicit in atrocious policies and opposition to science and integrity.”
“From the creators of family separation and election interference, the Trump administration is coming to a university near you — unless GW turns away their job applications,” he wrote.
“As Adolf Eichmann pled at Nuremberg that it was a ‘misfortune to become entangled in these atrocities,’ Trump officials cannot be allowed to feign ignorance,” continued the student. “Administrators should not take the bait.”
In addition to comparing Trump appointees to members of Germany’s Third Reich, the author judged members of the Trump administration as guilty of remaining “silent in the face of hate speech” and denying the “very existence” of science.
University of Virginia
The editorial board for University of Virginia student newspaper <a href="https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2021/01/editorial-expel-elected-officials-who-encouraged-the-capitol-insurrection" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2021/01/editorial-expel-elected-officials-who-encouraged-the-capitol-insurrection&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611271256910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHn4SC0LfSexSK9zqQOUhmZkYatVw">The Cavalier Daily</a> banded together to convey the need to “expel elected officials who encouraged the Capitol insurrection.”
The students called on State Senator and gubernatorial candidate Amanda Chase (R-VA), as well as House of Representatives members Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), Rep. Rob Whittman (R-VA), Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA), and Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA), to “take full responsibility” for their “giving credence to dangerous disinformation.”
Cancel culture is by no means a new technique for leftists at the University of Virginia. In 2018, two professors noisily resigned from their posts at UVA’s Miller Center following its decision to hire former Trump legislative director Marc Short.
In a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/07/31/we-quit-our-u-va-center-because-it-hired-an-enabler-of-trumps-anti-truth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/07/31/we-quit-our-u-va-center-because-it-hired-an-enabler-of-trumps-anti-truth/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611271256910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH0VQ5QgTzrrz9mwXxgoXdggRUnKw">Washington Post</a> op-ed, the professors argued that the “Marc Short decision was different from previous appointments at the center because Donald Trump is different from previous presidents.” They explained that Trump has departed sharply from predecessors “by breaking the norms of presidential behavior, by upending the rules of civil discourse, by casting doubt on the meaning of truth and by embracing the rhetoric of racism and white supremacy.”
Stanford University
Faculty, students, and alumni at Stanford University — the alma mater of Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) — demanded that the school “sever all ties” with the prominent lawmaker.
Condemning him “in the strongest possible terms” for charges such as “open sedition against the United States of America,” the authors of the <a href="https://www.change.org/p/department-of-justice-petition-from-stanford-university-community-members-regarding-senator-josh-hawley?recruiter=49086465&amp;utm_source=share_petition&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&amp;recruited_by_id=32193da0-9428-0130-8393-3c764e04b838&amp;use_react=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.change.org/p/department-of-justice-petition-from-stanford-university-community-members-regarding-senator-josh-hawley?recruiter%3D49086465%26utm_source%3Dshare_petition%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter%26utm_campaign%3Dpsf_combo_share_initial%26recruited_by_id%3D32193da0-9428-0130-8393-3c764e04b838%26use_react%3Dfalse&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611271256910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEVZ1mE-C536ZDyePiNFKwLs89LvA">petition</a> argued that Sen. Hawley bears “direct responsibility” for the attack against the Capitol Building.
The authors urged lawmakers to investigate Sen. Hawley for “seditious conspiracy” and called his continued role in public life “a clear and present danger to American democracy.”
Nearly 8,500 individuals signed the petition — a figure representing 121% of the school’s entire undergraduate population.
An opinion editor for student newspaper <a href="https://www.stanforddaily.com/2021/01/17/dont-be-like-josh-hawley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.stanforddaily.com/2021/01/17/dont-be-like-josh-hawley/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611271256910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFfMydWKep6sgGqyygtG6MY09Q_Sw">The Stanford Daily</a> wrote an article entitled “Don’t be like Josh Hawley.” She told her fellow students that their task is to “safeguard the country and community from producing and enabling the Hawleys of history, endowed with power but uncommitted to the principles this power should serve.”
Princeton University
Ever the object of the Left’s ire, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was condemned by his former classmates at Princeton University.
“An oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic precedes the taking of all elected offices in America,” read a <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2021/01/princeton-class-of-1992-condemn-ted-cruz" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2021/01/princeton-class-of-1992-condemn-ted-cruz&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611271256910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEBhGgFRlCRuz0ilm49W7_9_9Deww">petition</a> endorsed by nearly 600 members of the Princeton class of 1992. “Promoting false claims of voter fraud that lawyers are too afraid to present in courts where there are actual consequences for lying, and trying to use the ensuing controversy to challenge a constitutionally proper proceeding to ratify the decision of the Electoral College are, in our opinion, utterly inconsistent with this oath.”
The Princeton alumni also condemned Sen. Cruz for “unconscionably” sending out a fundraising appeal in the midst of the Capitol Building riot.
On January 7 in a Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1347328716796534790" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1347328716796534790&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611271256910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHfLK-wMU5Vg2fW3tjbqnfpLejIkQ">exchange</a> with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Sen. Cruz clarified that he told his team to halt automated fundraising messages within minutes of the attack’s onset.
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Five Universities Who Canceled Trump Officials And GOP Lawmakers

On January 20, former Vice President Joe Biden officially became President of the United States. An emboldened wave of cancel culture marked the weeks

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The host of “Real Time with Bill Maher” can be garrulous, prickly and downright mean.
It’s hard to forget how Maher mocked the Palin family, including her special needs child, as inbred mutants in the “Hills Have Eyes” horror tradition. Or how he <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/08/10/bill-maher-really-wants-a-recession-because-we-cant-survive-another-trump-term/">cheered on a “recession”</a> in order to get his party back in the White House.
Still, he occasionally shelves liberal talking points for some unabashed truths, much to his own party’s chagrin.
Yes, Maher spends the majority of his screen time echoing the views of Colbert, Kimmel, Bee and the rest of the hard-left late night crew. It’s his ability to break away from the pack, to share independent thoughts, that resonates with more than just his base.
It’s often just Maher trying to warn his fellow Democrats of political icebergs ahead. So be it. We&#8217;ll take flickers of late-night sanity however they appear.
The Rioters Don’t Represent MAGA Nation
Maher’s penchant for speaking inconvenient truths got a workout this month. The host, returning to HBO for the first time in 2021, said what’s patently true to any clear-thinking soul.
The thugs who broke into the Capitol Jan. 6 were<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/bill-maher-defends-trump-supporters-lets-not-confuse-5000-capitol-rioters-with-74-million-voters"> wrong and not indicative of the standard Trump voter.</a>
&#8220;As bad as last week was &#8230; let&#8217;s not confuse 5,000 people with 74 million,&#8221; Maher began his monologue. &#8220;Yes, even supporting the insurrection in spirit is, well, deplorable. But there&#8217;s a difference between holding illiberal beliefs and acting violently on them. At least that&#8217;s what they always told me about Islamic terrorism.&#8221;
He didn’t stop there. He swatted down the notion that <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/11/07/bill-maher-slams-panelist-who-calls-all-trump-voters-racists/">all Trump voters are racist</a>, a view held by a frightening number of liberals.
“Trump did a lot better with the black vote than he did last time,” Maher said. Nance questioned how well the exit polls reflected reality, given the large amount of mail-in ballots.
“I think he’s a terrible leader, but I don’t think that it’s terrible that there’s diversity in the Black community. Or in any community,” the host said.
Free Speech Warrior. 
Maher remains a rock-solid defender of the First Amendment. That hasn’t changed in the Cancel Culture era.
He proved that anew recently<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/01/15/maher-on-trump-twitter-ban-i-dont-like-banning-speech-these-things-turn-into-the-one-true-opinion-in-the-liberal-bubble/">, worrying about the consequences</a> of Big Tech deplatforming Trump.
“I’m a free speech person. I mean, f*** Trump. But when someone, anyone, anywhere decides what speech is allowed and what isn’t, I don’t know.”
He added the reasons for Trump’s removal were “vague” and that Big Tech could soon become a “liberal bubble” with little outside thought poking through.
Maher faced an early version of Cancel Culture in 2014 when Berkeley students tried to remove him as a speaker for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/28/berkeley-petition-bill-maher-commencement">sharing the wrong thoughts during his career.</a>
He persisted, striking a blow against the woke mob.
Defending Amy Schumer from Fellow Liberals.
The fading starlet’s 2018 film “I Feel Pretty” made little noise at the box office. The social media reception, though, proved loud and ugly.
Schumer stars as a woman who looks like … Amy Schumer … but feels empowered after a blow to the head convinces her she’s suddenly supermodel thin.
That set off the woke mob, who attacked the film for not having a person of color as the lead and reeking of the <a href="https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/entertainment/a18192099/amy-schumer-backlash-i-feel-pretty/">star’s blonde beauty “privilege.”</a>
Maher wasn’t having it.
“… the professionally offended have decided that even though it’s a film by women filmmakers presenting a pro-woman message, it does it the wrong way!” … Amy helped wrong! Even though she really just remade The Nutty Professor, where someone not thin and not cool magically sees themselves as better looking and gains confidence — except when Eddie Murphy did it, he didn’t have the purity police up his a**.”
He wasn’t finished.
“Can’t we just sit in a movie theater, unclench our a**holes for two hours, and laugh at what it is instead of dissecting it for what it is not?” Maher asked. “Movie reviews, they’re not even reviews anymore. They’re just, ‘How come you made the movie you made and not the movie I would’ve made if I had talent, which I don’t?&#8217;”
America Isn’t That Sexist … or They Still Hate Hillary
Maher took a long, hard look at the 2020 election results and came to a conclusion anyone “With Her” might find repugnant.
<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/11/13/maher-2020-results-disprove-idea-hillary-lost-due-to-sexism-biden-won-by-slightly-more-than-hillary/">AKA the truth.</a>
“Again, we all know the pollsters were wrong. We thought it was going to be a much bigger victory. He won by slightly — in other words, the country looked at Trump for four years and he won by that much more than Hillary. First of all, doesn’t that say maybe we’re not as sexist as we thought? I mean, it really doesn’t seem to be that oh, Hillary was a woman, we wouldn’t vote for her. They voted for Biden by this much more after Trump f***ed up for that long.”
Yes, Hunter Biden Is Sketchy. 
The mainstream media and Big Tech successfully squelched the Hunter Biden scandals that could have cost his pappy the election. Yet in 2019 Maher sounded a siren, of sorts, on the son’s <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/09/27/maher-if-don-jr-did-what-hunter-biden-did-it-would-be-all-rachel-maddow-was-talking-about/">dubious behavior tied to Ukraine</a>.
“I don’t think he was doing something terrible in Ukraine, but it’s just so — why can’t politicians tell their f***ing kids get a job? Get a g**damn job. I mean, this kid was paid $600,000 because his name is Biden, by a gas company in Ukraine, this super corrupt country that just had a revolution to get rid of corruption. It just looks bad. And the Republicans are geniuses at muddying the waters. … It’s all going to be about, you did this in Ukraine, well, Joe Biden did this.”
Maher even added a bit about media bias to make the argument stick.
“And if Don Jr. did it, it would be all Rachel Maddow was talking about.”
Maher subsequently backed off the Hunter Biden stories, perhaps following the media’s corrupt suggestion there was nothing “there” in the first place.
Maher on Thanksgiving: Just Eat, Thanks
The newest November tradition finds media outlets sharing how to survive Thanksgiving with your “racist” uncle or how to defeat their Trumpian rants. It’s exhausting and defeats the purpose of the holidays, a time meant to unite, not inflame.
Maher shredded the new Thanksgiving playbook with this <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/11/16/maher-we-have-to-learn-to-live-with-each-other-a-second-civil-war-is-possible/">glorious, and surprisingly nuanced, attack.</a>
“And never forget the single, shining truth about democracy, it means sharing a country with a**holes you can’t stand. In that way, it’s a lot like Thanksgiving. You don’t get to choose the guests. Because those freaks are your family. Think about that the next time you think you can own somebody politically.”
America is a big country, filled with millions of people who don’t think the way you do and never will, and you can’t own, vanquish, or disappear them. We’re stuck with them, and they’re stuck with us.”
Calling out Democratic Israel Bashers
The mainstream media won’t go near Rep. Rashida Tlaib in any meaningful way, no matter how many outrageous things she says or does. The same is doubly true for late night comics, who ignore her flaws to focus on GOP targets.
Yet Maher singled Tlaib out in 2019 after she called for a “Real Time” boycott.
Why?
Maher dubbed the BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) a “bull***t purity test by people who want to appear woke but actually slept through history class.”
The comedian responded to the Michigan politician in savage fashion days later.
“Some people have one move only: boycott. Cancel. Make-go-away,” Bill Maher said. “But here’s the thing, the house voted 318 to 17 to condemn the #BDS movement, including 93% of Dems. Does Tlaib want to boycott 93% of her own party?”
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8 Times Bill Maher Told the Truth (and Stunned the Left)

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Hank Williams, Jr. rocked the country world when he released his 1979 album Family Tradition. Whereas prior artists clung neatly to a cool and collected twang — save for Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, and some others — Hank combined wild and rugged individualism with comedic lyricism. He blended rock ‘n’ roll with blues and country, and the result changed the face of the genre forever.
While Hank’s music was widely loved and commercially successful in his time, many of his pro-gun, pro-family, and pro-America lyrics wouldn’t stand a chance in today’s Cancel Culture era. 
Here are five songs that would struggle to pass the Left’s politically correct litmus test today:
“Dixie on my Mind” (1981)
This country-rock tune peaked at number one on the Billboard US Country Chart. “Dixie on my Mind” is a fast-paced song detailing Hank’s rejection or urban norms and notion that he would prefer (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuJroujjYDk">like George Strait</a>) to live in Tennessee or anywhere else in the south other than New York city. 
While the song is devoid of any clear allusions to race or politics, the left would argue that this song is pro-slavery for referencing the word dixie, and probably surmise that Hank is a xenophobic, racist, scoundrel. 
But there is nothing of the like in this song. He is merely proud to be from the country, where things are calmer and more composed. 
He sings:
<blockquote>These people never smile or say a word, 
They&#8217;re all too busy tryin&#8217; to make an extra dime, 
Oh I&#8217;d love to haul &#8217;em all down around Spartanburg, 
And show &#8217;em how to raise hell in Carolina.</blockquote>
“Texas Women” (1981)
Also from the 1981 album Rowdy, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjQRrGy9AuM">“Texas Women”</a> is a funny, endearing love-letter to women from the state of Texas. Here are two verses.
<blockquote>I&#8217;m a country plow-boy, not an urban cowboy 
And I don&#8217;t ride bulls, but I have fought some men 
Drive a pickup truck, trust in God and luck 
And I live to love Texas womenI&#8217;m a pretty fair judge of the opposite sex 
And I ain&#8217;t seen nothin&#8217; that will touch &#8217;em yet 
They may be from Waco or out in Lampassas 
But one thing about it, they all come from Texas</blockquote>
I can already picture it. What is legitimately an amusing song about Hank’s preference for pretty girls from the Lone Star state, would be turned on its head by the Left. Instead, you see, this is a sexist tune that discriminates against women from other states. It is supremely unfair for Hank to not like all women equally! Also, how dare he refer to hardworking people from the city as “urban cowboys.” That is geographically impolite and not politically correct. 
“If Heaven Ain’t a Lot Like Dixie” (1982)
The song is an upbeat, pro-America, and comedic tune about wanting Heaven to resemble Hank’s birthplace of the South. Similar to his other songs, he rejects urban homogenization of American life and describes a love for his roots. The chorus says:
<blockquote>If heaven ain&#8217;t a lot like Dixie 
I don&#8217;t wanna go 
If heaven ain&#8217;t a lot like Dixie 
I&#8217;d just as soon stay home 
If they don&#8217;t have a Grand Ole Opry 
Like they do in Tennessee 
Just send me to hell or New York City 
It would be about the same to me</blockquote>
Leftist sociology professors would have a field day psychoanalyzing and deconstructing the song from a Marxist perspective. The fact that Hank would compare heaven to the South, I’m sure, would be a major trigger. Of course, this is a playful and un-serious song, but the left does not bode well with criticizing their strongholds like New York city. 
“Young Country” (1987)
Oh boy. The patriotism in “Young Country” would be mind-boggling to modern day leftists. Should the first verse of this song be performed on a college campus, Hank would be booed off stage. The first verse says:
<blockquote>We are young country, we are the pride 
The sons and the daughters of American life 
Our hair is not orange we don&#8217;t wear chains and spikes 
But we know how to have fun come Saturday night</blockquote>
The left would characterize this song as stigmatizing, racist, and trying to claim the hegemony is only ‘young country.’ Of course, the allusion to people as wearing ‘chains and spikes’ would probably inflict a lot of speech violence — and be discriminating against gangsters, goths, and many others. 
“A Country Boy Can Survive” (1982)
The 80s in general were prime time Hank. There are few more patriotic songs than “A Country Boy Can Survive.” Hank swiftly rejects uniform mandates on how Americans should live their lives — and describes his proudness of being a man of faith. He also tells a story of a friend who was murdered in New York City, and details how he would have used his own gun to defend him if he were there. 
<blockquote>He used to send me pictures of the Broadway nights 
And I&#8217;d send him some homemade wineBut he was killed by a man with a switchblade knifeFor 43 dollars my friend lost his lifeI’d love to spit some beech-Nut up in that dude’s eyesAnd shoot him with my old .45‘Cause a country boy can survive</blockquote>
The chorus famously declares:
<blockquote>Because you can&#8217;t starve us out and you can&#8217;t make us run 
&#8216;Cause we&#8217;re them old boys raised on shotguns 
And we say grace and we say Ma&#8217;am 
If you ain&#8217;t into that we don&#8217;t give a damn</blockquote>
This song was released at a time when people from the south, just as today, were caricatured and laughed at for loving God and guns. Both, being pillars of freedom, offend the left to no end. Hank is passionate about saying grace and being polite to others — and does not care if people (from secular America) have an issue.  
Gabe Kaminsky is a writer and student. His work has appeared in The American Conservative, The Washington Times, Washington Examiner, RealClearPolitics, HollywoodinToto, CBN, and elsewhere.
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On Thursday, Jan. 14, The Daily Wire premiered its first feature film <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/run-hide-fight">Run Hide Fight</a>. A “gut-wrenching film,” as co-CEO Jeremy Boreing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dont-miss-daily-wires-premiere-of-run-hide-fight-heres-how-to-watch">calls</a> it, the movie depicts a high school shooting. The protagonist Zoe Hull (played by Isabel May) decides to take a stand, helping students escape and combating the violence. Zoe and her friend Lewis Washington (played by Olly Sholotan) are two outcasts on “Senior Day,” ready to graduate and move on. Nonetheless, like their classmates, they are thrown into a maddening situation that forces them to act. The sheriff, played by Everwood star and Golden Globe nominated Treat Williams, is thrown off guard by a fire started as a distraction in a nearby field by the town. The four psychotic school shooters, Tristan Voy (actor Eli Brown), Chris Jelick (actor Britton Sear), Anna Jelick (actress Catherine Davis), and Kip Quade (actor Cyrus Arnold) put on quite a hypnotizing performance — channeling their inner Joaquin Phoenix in Joker. 
The villains of Run Hide Fight all exhibit some form of emotional problem, <a href="https://www.heritage.org/public-health/commentary/the-role-mental-illness-mass-shootings-suicides">common</a> among school shooters. For instance, Tristan has an obsession with fame and notoriety — wishing to sadistically broadcast his murders to the world through a livestream. He wants retribution on his careless teachers, and the classmates who “ignored” him. Chris hears and acts on voices. It is assumed that Anna participates because of her association with her brother Chris. And Kip has traumatic memories of being naked in the school auditorium from his youth — imagining that people are still fixated on his embarrassment.
Kip (Cyrus Arnold’s character), however, is the sole dissenter to his three murderous classmates in the end: the nerdy villain who tries to change course, after being convinced of joining the good side by Zoe when captured. 
“Kip is a very unbalanced 18-year-old who’s extraordinarily naïve. Even so, there’s a sliver of humanity left in him. Zoe brings that out later in the movie, and she helps him confront the reality of what he’s doing,” Arnold told The Daily Wire.
The 18-year-old, who <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpKYwGcWTaY&amp;t=96s">previously</a> played Derek, Jr. in comedy Zoolander 2 and starred as David ‘Truck’ Johnson III in nine episodes of The Exorcist, also had a role in the thriller Runt with now deceased Cameron Boyce — which explores similar coming-of-age themes and won an award at the 2020 Mammoth Film Festival. 
Director Kyle Rankin mentored Arnold throughout the process, helping him develop the sort of character he had in mind for the complex Kip Quade. “As awful as Kip and his fellow shooters are, I didn’t approach Kip as if he was a villain. Kip’s very anxious throughout the entire movie, so I approached Kip as if he was a scared kid, angry at the world and afraid about what it thinks about him,” Arnold said. 
Instead of viewing his character as a flat-out and irredeemable villain, Arnold attempted to get a better read on why anyone might commit such a horrific act. Depicting a murderous teenager was uncharted territory for the young actor. “Kyle sent 12 movies to study in order to understand the kind of movie that was being made. I was really inspired by Sal from ‘Dog Day Afternoon.’ I’ve played the ‘bad guy’ before&#8230;and I’ve played the bully, but Kip went further than those characters did in terms of cruelness,” Arnold said.
Arnold spoke fondly of his experience working with Director Kyle Rankin — who most recently co-wrote horror-thriller The Witch Files (2018) and directed Night of the Living Deb in 2015 starring Maria Thayer and Michael Cassidy. Even though Arnold had his reservations about the film being “too exploitive,” and how it would portray villains, Rankin made the process smooth and enjoyable. 
 “Kyle was sensitive, smart and hardworking. His expertise and the insight he had about his characters brought another level of depth to the project. I realize that a lot of people consider Run Hide Fight to be a Die Hard-esque action movie, but with Kyle, it felt more like a smart and unsettling thriller&#8230;Kyle perfectly balanced giving the villains substance, while not excusing any part of their behavior,” he told The Daily Wire.
Arnold was also sure to explore his character as more than a shallow villain. “All of the good guys act out of bravery, from the lunch lady, to Zoe. All of the villains act out of fear. We’re not trying to make you sympathize with any of the shooters. People should understand that the roles Eli, Britton, and I played did something wholly evil, and there’s no excuse,” he said.
Evidently, it aided the budding actor to have a Hollywood veteran by his side, who was able to contribute to his understanding of how to build the aesthetic of Kip Quade. Arnold harps on the fact that the film is not just an action piece. It is a cutting-edge, psychological thriller that feels like an emotional roller coaster throughout. 
There have been only a handful of feature films that have tried to fictionalize and capture the reality of our world after the Columbine High School Shooting in 1999, a subject largely viewed as taboo in Hollywood circles. Director Kyle Rankin and co-CEO Jeremy Boreing discussed this on the night of the premiere, citing the fact that the film is an ambitious project, perhaps standing at the farthest end of The Daily Wire’s spectrum.
However, The Daily Wire were sure not to enter the entertainment industry in order to provide standard and mundane content. We do “not aspire to and will never make films for adults that meet the requirements of Pureflix,” Boreing said in response to a criticism of the film’s violence.
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That said, I don’t want to mislead you. Daily Wire does not aspire to and will never make films for adults that meet the “requirements of PureFlix.” We don’t believe in that standard. If that’s what someone wants, PureFlix already exists! We’re building something different.
&mdash; Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing/status/1350827027859959808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Run Hide Fight may have been distributed by right-leaning outlet The Daily Wire, but there is nothing one-sided about the film. “I want people to understand that Run Hide Fight doesn’t endorse a specific political viewpoint,” Arnold said. “Objectively, it’s a story about a courageous girl getting over her past&#8230;”
Instead of relying on messaging or propagandizing about gun control — which certainly could have been the consequence of a conservative organization’s foray into Hollywood — the film aims to entertain and take its audience on a tense, gripping, action-packed journey. By depicting the tormented and disturbed nature of Kip Quade — and his classmates — viewers are given a glimpse into a chilling school shooting, and the minds of those involved.
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