THEY LIED TO US, THEY OPPRESSED US, AND THE CAUSED THE VERY KIND OF HARM THEY WERE ALLEGEDLY TRYING TO PREVENT:

Republicans raked former Twitter executives over the coals yesterday. It was so damaging that I almost felt sorry for them until I remembered how corrupt and damaging their actions were. They distorted the information flow during the presidential campaign, doing far more damage than the Russians ever could.

And worse, they spread more misinformation about COVID than any million Americans. They distorted, along with Facebook the entire conversation about COVID and distorted the policymaking process by suppressing any critical discussion of government policies. They spread misinformation faster than the virus.

And they took it on the chin yesterday. Rightly so.

Social media executives collaborated with public health officials and government COVID fascists to suppress any dissent. And not just legitimate dissent from private citizens who are supposed to have a say in how the government responds to crises, but well-respected scientists who were critical of the statements and policies promoted by government officials.

The results were devastating. Businesses were lost, children were harmed physically, mentally, and educationally, social divisions exacerbated, people were forced to inject experimental vaccines into their bodies–and even the government admits that many were harmed by doing so. Millions of parents who would willingly vaccinate their children with safer vaccines against terrible diseases are now taking a pass.

The damage is incalculable, and these people helped cause it. They actively colluded with government officials to spread lies (vaccines prevent infections and protect other people from infection, for instance). And they, with no scientific or medical experience at all, suppressed the speech of some of the most eminent scientists in the world.

For instance, Twitter censored Dr. Martin Kulldorff of Harvard for questioning the government’s claims. They slapped a warning on one of his tweets that questioned the need for everybody to get vaccinated.

They called his tweet misleading, despite the fact that Dr. Kulldorff served on the Covid-19 vaccine safety subgroup that the CDC, NIH, and FDA rely upon for technical expertise on this very subject.

In other words, these executives with no medical experience at all censored a man who advised the CDC, NIH, and FDA on the vaccine. They decided their own judgment was better than his. Because he disputed the Narrative.

They did this to countless others. Their censorship changed as the government changed, often to positions that days before were banned on the platform. Their tactics were Soviet, as were Facebook’s, Google’s, and the MSM. They allowed only what Fauci and his minions wanted out there.

A just society would make examples both in and out of the government. We do not live in such a society.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: It’s Time to Talk About How — and Why — Biden Lets the Chinese Commies Walk All Over Him.

THIS DOESN’T APPEAR TO BE A PRIORITY FOR THE FBI, WHICH I GUESS IS BUSY TRACKING DOWN PARENTS WHO COMPLAIN AT SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS AND CATHOLICS WHO TAKE PART IN LATIN MASS: Second Republican New Jersey Lawmaker Shot Dead Within a Week.

The pair of killings come as Democrats have sought to blame their enemies for fomenting “political violence” against their party members. In his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden attributed the brutal assault of Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D., Calif.) husband, Paul Pelosi, to the actions of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Heller was killed less than 15 miles from where Dwumfour was found dead in her SUV with multiple gunshot wounds. Her killer is still at large. New Jersey governor Phil Murphy (D.) attributed both deaths to “gun violence.”

Of course he did. Putz.

CHINA: Asian Geopolitics Just Got Scarier.

Even as the United States and its NATO allies pledged to supply more weapons systems to Ukraine, Asian geopolitics was eclipsing European geopolitics with reports of Xi Jinping’s October “war council,” the shooting down of what was believed to be a Chinese surveillance balloon, and reports that South Korea is considering developing its own nuclear deterrent. The 21st century is indeed shaping up to be the “Asian Century.”

The most worrisome of the three developments is Xi Jinping’s war council, which was revealed by the Hill on Jan. 28 and elaborated on by the Washington Times’ Bill Gertz on Feb. 2. Gertz reported that U.S. Air Force Gen. Michael Minihan’s memorandum stated that the war council includes top members of China’s Central Military Commission. Gertz describes China’s Central Military Commission as “the Chinese Communist Party’s most powerful institution.” And the subject of the war council was Taiwan. Minihan predicted in the memo that the United States should be prepared for war with China by 2025. This comes on the heels of U.S. Admiral Philip Davidson’s prediction in 2021 that war over Taiwan could come anytime within the next six years, the Navy’s Chief of Naval Operations’ warning that China may invade Taiwan before 2024, and recent Chinese military exercises around the island of Taiwan. Although the Pentagon distanced itself from Minihan’s prediction, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul agreed with Minihan’s assessment.

The October war council may very well have led to the launching of what many are calling the Chinese “spy” or “surveillance” balloon that was shot down by U.S. fighters near the South Carolina shore after it traveled from the Aleutian Islands across parts of Alaska, Canada, and the continental United States, including over U.S. ICBM fields. The best commentary on this development was written by James Holmes, a professor of strategy at the Naval War College and a fellow at the Center for Innovation and Future Warfare of the Marine Corps University, in the journal 19Fortyfive. Holmes believes that the Chinese balloon likely gathered intelligence but was mainly a “trial balloon” designed to “see whether it would elicit a response from the U.S. government and military, as well as from the American people.”

It sure doesn’t seem like Biden’s response made war any less likely.

DEAL OF THE DAY: NEXPOW Car Jump Starter. #CommissionEarned

“ILLEGAL ALIEN” IS LITERALLY THE STATUTORY TERM: GWU Law Student Gov’t Directs People to Stop Saying/Writing “Illegal,” “Alien,” and “Assimilation” re: Immigration.

RADICAL AND TRADITIONALIST? Whistleblower Says FBI Mined Bank Records for the J6 Probe as the Bureau Takes a Hard Look at ‘Radical Traditionalist Catholics.’

SHARE YOUR LOVE:  Science Fiction, Fantasy and Gateways.

THEY’RE NEEDED, BUT NOT WELCOME: On The Need For Diverse Viewpoints In Biglaw: Ideological uniformity in Biglaw, whether on the right or the left, is not a good thing.

Ideological uniformity on the right in BigLaw is very much a hypothetical, though.

More here.

YEAH, BUT THE WAY A LOT OF US ARE MADE, WE JUST TRY TO DO IT ALL OURSELVES. BY HAND. SIGH:  Think of the craftsman.

I’m not a boomer. But I’m certainly not a millennial. Why am I afflicted with “I have to learn to do it myself and do everything the perfect way?”

FOR MOST OF THE WORLD, AMERICA IS PRACTICALLY ALIEN; AND SO ARE THEY TO US, WE JUST DON’T KNOW IT:  Them Over There.

POTENTIAL MY SORE LITTLE FEET:  Media pillar admits ‘potential vulnerabilities,’ ‘security challenges’ in electronic pollbooks.

I DO NOT THINK THIS WILL SOLVE THEIR PROBLEM.  COMPETING THEATERS ARE CHEERING THEM ON, HOWEVER:  AMC will now charge you more to sit in middle of movie theater.

OF COURSE, YOU CAN’T BELIEVE A WORD CHINA SAYS:  China claims second suspected spy balloon over Latin America was also lost.

ABOUT TIME!  Pushback: Civil rights complaint filed against California school district for running segregated program.

THE HORSE IS NO LONGER IN THE BARN:  Democrats Desperately Declare Hunter’s Laptop Trivial And Half-Fake.

WHATEVER. I’D RATHER STARVE THAN EAT THE BUGS:  Fires Destroy New Zealand Egg Farm and Canadian Seafood Plant.

Not that I’m at risk of starving. Could use a bit of fasting, to be honest.

DID THE LUMP IN HIS NECK CALL FOR HELP?  PA Sen. John Fetterman Taken to Hospital After ‘Feeling Lightheaded’ at Senate Democratic Retreat.

Look, I read A Canticle for Leibowitz, okay?

BUT IT IS “FEMALE” MALE GENITALIA!  ‘Exposed to Male Genitalia’: Swimmer Claims No One ‘Forewarned’ Them About Sharing Locker Room With Biological Male Lia Thomas.

(Do I really need to add a sarcasm tag?)

ARE THEY SURE? I HEARD SOME OF US HAVE ASSAULT ROSARIES!  FBI HQ Retracting Richmond Field Office Document Targeting ‘Radical Traditionalist Catholics’.

Scary that.

ABOUT TIME: TX Governor Greg Abbott Tells State Agencies and Public Universities to Stop Considering Diversity in Hiring.

Diversity assumes that everyone will discriminate, and so orders people to…. discriminate.

Honestly, any reason for hiring outside of “competence” destroys competence. Either immediately or over time. We have a competence crisis in all our institutions. Stop the nonsense.

THE LEFT HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT GUILT BY ASSOCIATION:  Airbnb bans Lauren Southern’s PARENTS.

NOR SHOULD SHE: ‘It was a witch-burning’: Roseanne may forgive Hollywood, but she’ll never forget.

Her castmates were pretty quick to throw her to the wolves, too. “I can’t believe what they did, with all the pain that I went through to bring the show back. And it didn’t faze them to murder my character, either.”

The ninth circle of Hell is reserved for those who betray their benefactors.

OPEN THREAD: Whatchoo got?

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Romney Attacks George Santos: ‘There’s Only Room For One Fake Republican In Congress.’