'Awakened a sleeping giant': Parler jumps to most popular app as conservatives rally support to leave Twitter and Facebook

Social media platform Parler jumped to the top downloaded app this weekend, as conservatives rally support to leave Facebook and Twitter over censorship.

“The media and the anti-Trump lunatics have awakened a sleeping giant. We gave a collective middle finger to the tech tyrants as Parler remains the NUMBER ONE most downloaded app in the world. Thank you!” conservative commentator Dan Bongino said Sunday morning.

Parler is in the top spot for most popular free apps on Apple as of Sunday morning, beating out TikTok and YouTube.

Parler was founded in 2018 and has been lauded as a platform that protects free speech.

“Parler is an unbiased social media focused on real user experiences and engagement. Our content is moderated based off the FCC and the Supreme Court of the United States which enables free expression without violence and a lack of censorship. Parler never shares your personal data,” the platform’s description reads.

Bongino announced a partnership with Parler in June, taking an ownership stake in the company.

“I’ve decided it’s time to fight back against the Tech Tyrants. I’m beyond fed up with the censorship and bias of Twitter and Facebook, and I’m not going to stand back and watch as they target us. As a result, I’ve taken an ownership stake in Parler, the hottest social media alternative in the market right now,” Bongino said at the time.

Fellow conservatives, such as Mark Levin and Newt Gingrich, have called on others to give up Facebook and Twitter and move to the platform.

“Hurry and follow me at Parler. I’m trying to encourage as many of you as possible to immediately join me there as I may not stay at Facebook or Twitter if they continue censoring me. And one day, I’ll have left their platforms. Parler is a wonderful alternative and is growing, and we need you there ASAP. It believes in truly open speech. Thank you!” Levin said Sunday morning.

“As Twitter attempts to silence my views and opinions, I invite you to follow me on Parler,” Gingrich said on Thursday.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/awakened-a-sleeping-giant-parler-jumps-to-most-popular-app-as-conservatives-rally-support-to-leave-twitter-and-facebook

Susan Collins beat The Lincoln Project

The long knives were out for Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.

Her Democratic challenger Sara Gideon had determined to beat the last New England Republican in Congress by tying President Donald Trump around her neck like an anvil. That was to be expected.

But also The Lincoln Project — a group of onetime Republican operatives who oppose Trump — joined Democrats in targeting Collins.

The group said it wanted to save the Republican Party, but then it went after the GOP’s finest. Fueled in part with big money from Democratic megadonors, they labeled Collins — who didn’t vote for Trump in 2016 and was named the most bipartisan U.S. senator by the Lugar Center in 2017 — a “Trump stooge” and charged she let Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell control “her voice.”

Before Nov. 3, every poll used in the RealClearPolitics polling average showed Collins trailing Gideon.

Like so many 2020 contests, the polls got her race completely wrong. Collins garnered 51.1 percent of the vote to Gideon’s 42.3 percent — majority support that kept her lead from being spoiled by Maine’s ranked-choice voting scheme.

Rejoice. All the low-rent attacks against Collins failed. It is especially gratifying to see the swells at The Lincoln Project, who styled themselves as the brains of the GOP, tank so spectacularly. And for nothing … well, except all the money they raked in and their star treatment on MSNBC, which they would never get working for solid Republicans.

The project’s stock and trade were troll-like videos posted on Twitter. The day before the election, Steve Schmidt, who masterminded Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, tweeted a video that showed Trump dancing on a sinking ship and ended with video of Collins, McConnell and GOP Sens. Joni Ernst of Iowa and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, sinking into the drink. “I love this with all my heart and soul,” he crowed.

Note: All four Republican senators whom they consigned to a watery grave won re-election.

When Trump tweets tasteless videos of their opponents dying, critics rightly are appalled. Yet somehow anti-Trumpers think it is clever when they do the same thing.

Lincoln Project boosters often boasted that the group had been living rent-free inside Trump’s head, clearly missing the obvious fact that they had turned into Trump — not only with their teenage-boy videos but also with their lashing out at people who in any rational universe would be allies.

Trump often has done the same. Last month he tweeted against Collins for not voting for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett and other offenses. (In this case, I suspect Trump shrewdly was trying to help Collins with her Democratic constituents.)

A week ahead of the election, Axios reported that The Lincoln Project was in talks to branch out with a nonfiction film, a “House of Cards”-type fictional series and other prestigious projects.

And these guys who think they are so smart and superior couldn’t even beat Collins.

Collins’ finest moment came in October 2018 before she voted to confirm now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who had been smeared with wholly unconfirmed decades-old allegations of sexual misconduct. Weaker minds turned on Kavanaugh and dispensed with notions of due process because they hated Trump. Withstanding scary threats and unrelenting harassment, she stood strong and focused on what was important.

“We must always remember that it is when passions are most inflamed that fairness is most in jeopardy,” Collins said. “The presumption of innocence is relevant to the advise and consent function when an accusation departs from a nominee’s otherwise exemplary record. I worry that departing from this presumption could a lead to a lack of public faith in the judiciary and would be hugely damaging to the confirmation process moving forward.”

https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/opinion-columns/debra-saunders/debra-j-saunders-susan-collins-beat-the-lincoln-project-2179239/

THREAD – THE WORLD ACCORDING TO XI

“The most benign possible explanation for the CCP’s campaign for global lockdowns is that the party aggressively promoted the same lie internationally as domestically”

I don’t believe that explanation.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/china-covid-lockdown-propaganda

2/ I doubt the CCP really knew how well its lockdown psyop would work, but everything about its response suggests the lockdowns were part of a larger plan. This was Xi’s plan to make the world China, and what the world would look like if he had his way.

3/ Intellectuals forewarned of tyrants using disease:

"if crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call ‘disease’ can be treated as crime; and compulsorily cured" - CS Lewis 1948

classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/Re…

4/ The CCP’s global lockdowns also appear inspired in part on the work of Stanley Milgram, whose experiments proved the willingness of most individuals to commit human rights abuses when instructed to do so by scientific authorities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

5/ Lockdowns further appear to be a “new concept weapon” as theorized by China’s most influential modern strategist, Qiao Liang, in his magnum opus: “Unrestricted Warfare”

https://staceyrudin.medium.com/unrestricted-warfare-lockdown-as-a-new-concept-weapon-in-the-post-nuclear-age-670086b834a9

6/ In Oct 2019, Gates Foundation, Johns Hopkins, and the WEF hosted an international pandemic simulation in which China took part. The CCP appears to have modeled its lockdown fraud on Event 201, so Gates, Hopkins, and the WEF would play into their hands.

https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/

7/ Lockdowns were launched when Xi instructed his inner circle on Wuhan on Jan 7. No person ever publicly conceived of “lockdown” before that date. Businessman Ren Zhiqiang was sentenced to 18 years for a letter requesting Xi’s instructions be made public.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/world/asia/xi-china-coronavirus.html

8/ As soon as CCP announced its lockdowns had “reversed the escalating cases” in Wuhan, WHO adopted lockdowns as universal world policy for all countries and cities outside China, regardless of economic circumstance, number of cases, or any other factor.

https://www.aier.org/article/whats-behind-the-whos-lockdown-mixed-messaging/

9/ The CCP’s modelers would provide a continuous supply of alarmist, pseudoscientific models to justify more draconian lockdowns.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/168497/chinese-president-sees-uk-china-academic-partnerships/

10/ The CCP’s “medical guidance” from Wuhan was designed to inflict mass death in 3 ways:

1. Excessive use of ventilators, killing healthy patients

2. Moving still-sick patients to nursing homes, and

3. The stress and deprivation of lockdowns themselves.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7162773/

https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1324079045072556034

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1324079045072556034.html