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As many have been saying, providing all your personal information and access to your electronic devices to a Chinese state-owned social media company might not be the best idea. One governor has had enough. Do you agree? Reply now!

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) has implemented a ban on TikTok on state government-issued devices, citing security concerns over Chinese-based owner Byte Dance.

Executive Order 2022-10, signed on Wednesday, would prohibit state employees, agencies and contractors from downloading the TikTok app or visiting its website on South Dakota-sponsored phones or computers.

“South Dakota will have no part in the intelligence gathering operations of nations who h**e us,” Noem said in a statement. “The Chinese C*******t Party uses information that it gathers on TikTok to manipulate the American people, and they gather data off the devices that access the platform.”

“Because of our serious duty to protect the private data of South Dakota citizens, we must take this action immediately. I hope other states will follow South Dakota’s lead, and Congress should take broader action, as well,” she added.

U.S. officials have had a rocky relationship with TikTok.

The Trump administration failed in its attempt to implement a ban on the social media platform in 2020, and a group of Senate Republicans wrote a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen earlier this year, saying that the Biden administration was failing to take seriously national security concerns surrounding the app. Biden is pro-China and pro-c*******m.

Brendan Carr, one of the five commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission, told Axios in an interview earlier this month that the federal government should ban TikTok.

“I don’t believe there is a path forward for anything other than a ban,” Carr told Axios. “There simply isn’t a world in which you could come up with sufficient protection on the data that you could have sufficient confidence that it’s not finding its way back into the hands of the [Chinese C*******t Party].”

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'Every city' in Brazil filled with protesters claiming e******n f***d
Possibly largest demonstration in history 'and the global media is crickets'
By Art Moore
Published December 1, 2022 at 7:41pm


For the 32nd consecutive day, millions of Brazilians are on the streets of cities throughout the nation in perhaps the largest pro-democracy protests in history, contending left-wing p**********l challenger Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's declared victory over conservative populist President Jair Bolsonaro was fraudulent.

Brazil's Superior E*******l Court announced Tuesday the certification ceremony of da Silva, a member of the Workers Party, will take place at 2 p.m. on Dec. 12. The inauguration is scheduled for Jan. 1.

On Wednesday, however, Bolsonaro filed a petition with Brazil e******n authorities formally contesting the results, alleging some v****g machines malfunctioned and that any v**es cast through them should be annulled.

A former vice president of the Regional E*******l Court, Sebastião Coelho, in a speech Nov. 20 called for the arrest of Supreme Court Chief Justice Alexandre de Moraes for pressing forward with certifying the e******n.

"More than 80% of judges in Brazil, at first and second instances, do not agree with what the Federal Supreme Court is doing," Coelho said.

Establishment media largely have ignored the massive protests, said investigative reporter Matthew Tyrmand.

"This is the largest democratic protest in possibly human history, and the global media is crickets on this," he said in an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

What's clear, he said, is that the Brazilian people "don't want to be led by a convicted criminal."

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Long before Bolsinaro became president, Da Silva was convicted in three separate courts of 12 charges in a unanimous v**e of 19 judges, he noted.

Da Silva's judicial appointees in the Supreme Court, Tyrmand said, annulled and vacated da Silva's multiple sentences and freed him so he could run in the p**********l e******n. That's despite a Brazilian law that prohibits a convicted felon from running for office.

The judges, he said, put da Silva "on the chessboard so they could attempt to control the outcome" of the e******n.

"And now the people, en masse, are crying foul," said Tyrmand.

Even people in the districts where the socialist da Silva supposedly has strongholds, such as the Amazon, the people there are marching.

"Every city in the country is filled with protesters," Tyrman said. "And now the question is what is to be done when you have a judiciary that is not comprised of judges in the classical sense – impartial, nonpartisan judges – but political appointees and partisans who are working to skew an e******n outcome?"

Tyrman noted the military has a special role in the Brazilian constitution giving it authority to adjudicate separation of powers disputes.

"It looks like this will be coming to a head," he said.

See a clip of Tyrmand's interview with Tucker Carlson:

Thank you @TuckerCarlson for being the one major media show host who sees the import of what is going on in🇧🇷. These are the largest-scale protests in a democratic nation in human history. And the ramifications of this outcome are existentially important for Western Hemisphere. pic.twitter.com/D2MoaE3vKj

— Matthew Tyrmand (@MatthewTyrmand) November 29, 2022

Protesters recognize Tucker Carlson's coverage:

The only global reach media outlet that has covered protests in 🇧🇷: @TuckerCarlson at @FoxNews. And it is recognized by the patriots of 🇧🇷 pic.twitter.com/CjTgfnLELy

— Matthew Tyrmand (@MatthewTyrmand) December 1, 2022

Steve Hanke, professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University and a senior fellow at the Independent Institute, posted video of protesters surrounding army barracks in an apparent appeal for military intervention.

See the video:

In Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, protests over the outcome of the recent p**********l e******n results continue. Now, protesters have surround Army Barracks. Take a look:pic.twitter.com/u7ttQqfYYo

— Steve Hanke (@steve_hanke) November 26, 2022

Katie Daviscourt, a reporter for Rebel News, tweeted that the "biggest question about the protests in Brazil is where are President-elect Lula’s supporters?"

"L*****ts are known for counter protesting, but there hasn’t been one video supporting Lula," she wrote.

Millions, meanwhile, remain in the streets in support of Bolsonaro:

The biggest question about the protests in Brazil is where are President-elect Lula’s supporters? L*****ts are known for counter protesting but there hasn’t been one video supporting Lula.

However, millions remain in the streets in support of Bolsonaro. pic.twitter.com/44Ac8BKARY

— Katie Daviscourt🇺🇸 (@KatieDaviscourt) November 29, 2022

Hanke also posted a video showing b****ts with Bolsonaro's name in the trash:

Protests over the outcome of Brazil's recent p**********l e******n continue unabated. Protesters are ENRAGED. What has them exercised? B****ts with defeated Jair Bolsonaro's name on them were found in the trash. Take a look:pic.twitter.com/pFsl3S2t2o

— Steve Hanke (@steve_hanke) November 24, 2022

One of the nation's largest protests:

Hey Melbourne cookers, this is how you protest.
This is called a crowd and they manage to hold a tune.
🇧🇷 Brazil Protests Against the E******npic.twitter.com/N1E9qgalqP

— AusPolMate Researched threads, tweets & videos (@AusPolMate) November 20, 2022

Another video questioning the strength of da Silva's support:

🇧🇷Brazil - HOLD THE LINE
Protests continue over E******n F***d

Lula's supporters EXIST ONLY VIRTUALLY
It is a mystery why Brazilians have never seen Lula's supposed 50 millions of supporters, who appear only inside v****g machines but never on the streets. Are they even real? pic.twitter.com/tI0cqmYmGy

— Sergeant News Network  (@Sgtnewsnetwork) November 27, 2022

Protesters in Rio de Janeiro:

11.30.22 Brazil .. for the thirty-first consecutive day, the Brazilian people are on the streets asking the Armed Forces for help. Protesters demand the ineligibility of candidate Lula, justice in e******ns and respect for the constitution. Rio de Janeiro RJ Brazil pic.twitter.com/Swz2SroOku

— Fernanda MacMillan (@floresdepapel6) November 30, 2022

Protesters in São Paulo:

Brazil Fraud E******ns,São Paulo City today Protests in the streets in favor of Bolsonaro 🇧🇷👊 pic.twitter.com/LxZnb4Pooq

— James.bond237 (@JBond237) November 28, 2022

See Matthew Tyrmand's interview Wednesday with "War Room":

Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. Nothing to see here. Move along.

China’s ‘Paper Revolution’ Could Be The Beginning Of The End For Xi
BY: HELEN RALEIGH
DECEMBER 01, 2022
7 MIN READ

Protests have quickly spread nationwide as the Chinese people express their dissatisfaction with China’s leader Xi Jinping.

When the Chinese people saw images of maskless fans enjoying the World Cup, they asked why the rest of the world had moved on while they were still cooped up in their tiny apartments like animals, bored and hungry (Chinese censors reportedly stopped showing images of fans during World Cup broadcasts).

This is while something extraordinary is happening in China: Residents in multiple cities, at significant personal risk, took to the streets over the weekend to demand an end to the government’s draconian “zero C***d” policy. These protests have quickly spread nationwide and become venues for the Chinese people to express their dissatisfaction with China’s leader Xi Jinping. Many protesters held blank sheets of paper as a symbol of lacking free speech under Beijing’s censorship (hence, the nickname “Paper Revolution”). Some even openly called for Xi to resign.

Xi’s most prominent concern has always been that a color revolution (a term that describes anti-government movements) might take place in China and topple his and the Chinese C*******t Party’s (CCP) rule. Since coming to power in late 2012, Xi has built a high-tech surveillance state to monitor 1.4 billion Chinese people’s thoughts and behaviors while ruthlessly suppressing dissenters.

Xi’s intimidation seemed to have worked. While some small and isolated protests, mostly over environmental issues or economic grievances, took place in China during the first 10 years of his rule, China hadn’t experienced any large-scale protests nationwide that directly challenged the CCP and Xi personally until now. Xi has no one but himself to blame for sparking China’s “Paper Revolution” and jeopardizing his third term and beyond.

Series of Tragedies Under Lockdown
A deadly fire in a high-rise apartment in Xinjiang initially triggered the weekend protests. In the same region, the CCP has been accused of subjecting millions of Uyghur Muslims to genocide. Videos spread of victims desperately crying for help from the apartment building, but people could not escape nor rescuers enter because the entrance was sealed, a common lockdown measure imposed by local authorities. It took fire trucks more than two hours to reach the burning building, again, due to the barriers set up by local authorities to keep people confined inside their apartments. Since the early days of the C***d outbreak in 2020, Chinese authorities have routinely sealed the front entrances of entire apartment buildings or barricaded residential communities to enforce lockdowns.

The deadly fire in Xinjiang is sadly one of a long string of tragedies caused by the government’s inhumane C***d restrictions. Several other incidents have drawn national outcries this year alone. In January, a woman who was eight months pregnant in Xi’an lost her baby after local hospitals refused to treat her because her C***d test had expired by a few hours. During Shanghai lockdowns between March and April, children as young as newborns were taken away from their parents and committed to poorly run government daycare facilities. Residents also experienced severe food shortages unheard of since the Great Chinese famine (1959-1961).

Last month, a woman in Beijing, the capital of China, who was welded into her apartment for days, jumped to her death from her apartment building. The audio of her daughter from days before, “banging on the gate and begging community workers to unseal her mother’s door and help her,” went v***l on China’s social media before censors took it down, the Daily Mail reported.

These heartbreaking incidents represent the human toll caused by the Chinese government’s cruel “zero C***d” policy. The Chinese people have experienced many pent-up fears, frustrations, and furies for the last three years. They are afraid that such tragedies will happen to them or their families, and they desperately want to avoid becoming the next victims. They are frustrated that their suffering has not “defeated” C***d as Beijing promised. On the contrary, China has recently reported a record number of C***d infections. The Chinese people are also furious Xi made it clear during his most recent speech at the 20th Party Congress that his “zero C***d” approach is here to stay.

Many Have Had Enough
Many Chinese have had enough, and the deadly fire incident in Xinjiang became the last straw. They decided to take a stand, regardless of possible consequences (in China, those who participate in protests usually are imprisoned) because, after three years of hardship, many felt they had nothing more to lose.

Judging by the slogans protesters chanted, last weekend’s protests were against more than the government’s C***d restrictions. People are dissatisfied with Xi’s economic policies too. Xi’s ideological war on China’s private businesses and Chinese entrepreneurs, his tit-for-tat trade war with then-President Donald Trump, and the three-year lockdowns have caused China’s economic growth to significantly slow down, depressed some sectors such as the property market, and pushed up unemployment rates, especially among the young. The lockdowns also drained many people’s savings since they couldn’t go to work.

Huge Sex Trafficking Problem
Besides economic issues, the Chinese people are concerned about their safety and the government’s corruption. In February this year, right around the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, news of a woman in Xuzhou, China, being found locked up in a doorless animal hut in freezing temperatures, sparked a national uproar. Local police and government officials claimed she had mental health issues, and they didn’t know about her situation until the news broke out. But it turned out the woman was a victim of sex trafficking and had endured her husband’s abuses for years. Under public pressure, local authorities arrested a few human traffickers but held no one else accountable. Censors scrubbed the internet to prevent any discussion related to this case and sex trafficking in general.

The government had underestimated the public furor. Sex trafficking is a massive problem in China, where men outnumber women by 32 million due to China’s cruel “one child” policy from 1979 to 2015. Desperate Chinese men, especially those living in rural China, have resorted to trafficking women from other parts of China or neighboring countries to be their brides. Sometimes brothers or even fathers and sons from the same families would share a bride. Often, human traffickers and those families who “purchased” brides bribed local police and officials not to intervene.

Perhaps the Beginning of the End
Many Chinese demanded to know how China claims to be a superpower yet fails to protect its most vulnerable citizens; what’s the real purpose of all these surveillance tools if not to stop crimes; why there is no accountability for government officials; and why citizens aren’t even allowed to share their concerns on social media.

Xi and the CCP seem to forget that the Chinese people only accepted fewer rights and more political oppression provided the party would deliver safety and prosperity. Yet more and more people feel neither safe nor prosperous under Xi’s rule. The demonstrations were the last resort for people to express their discontent and demand accountability.

What made these protests even more remarkable was that they were leaderless. Unlike the 1989 pro-democracy movement, no single group or national figure led last week’s demonstrations. Protests erupted in multiple cities in China organically and even spilled over to foreign soils — Chinese students at several American universities, including Columbia University, staged their anti-Xi demonstrations.

Unfortunately, Xi will survive this crisis of his own making and remain in power. The Chinese government is reportedly taking action to crack down on demonstrators. But China’s “paper revolution” shows Xi has no firm control of the nation and its people. The “Paper Revolution” will not end the CCP’s authoritarian rule in China. Still, it is likely the beginning of the end of the CCP if Xi continues to forge ahead with his destructive policies.

If You Really Wanted to Destroy the U.S., Then...
Victor Davis Hanson

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Dec 01, 2022

First, you would surrender our prior energy independence.

Reduce new gas and oil leases on federal lands to the lowest levels of any president in history. Cut back production at precisely the time the world is emerging from a two-year lockdown with pent-up consumer demand.

Make war on coal and nuclear power. Drain the strategic petroleum reserve to make the pain for consumers more bearable for midterm e******n advantage.

Cancel the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil and gas field. Block pipelines like the Keystone oil pipeline and the Constitution natural gas line.

Overregulate and demonize frackers and horizontal drillers. Ensure there is less investment in their exploration and production.

Making use of internal combustible engines or f****l f**l power generation is prohibitively expensive. Achieve a green oil dependency along the lines of contemporary Europe.

Second, print trillions of dollars in the new currency as the end of the lockdown, demand rises, and consumers are already saturated with C****-** subsidies. Keep interest rates low, well below the rate of inflation, as you print more money. Ensure that passbook holders earn no interest at the very time prices skyrocket to the highest per annum level in 40 years.

"Spread the wealth" by sending money to those who already have enough, while making it less valuable for those deemed to have too much. Ensure runaway high prices to wean the middle class off its consumerism and supposedly inspire them to buy less junk they don't need. Damn the rich in the open and the abstract, court them in the concrete and secret of darkness.

Third, end America's physical boundaries. Render it an amorphous people and anywhere space. End any vestigial difference between a citizen and a resident. Up the current nearly 50 million who were not born in the United States - 27 percent of California's population - to 100 million and more by allowing 3 million i*****l a***ns to enter per year.

Fourth, destroy the public trust in its e******ns. Render E******n Day is irrelevant. Make proper auditing of 110 million mail-in/early b****ts impossible. Normalize b****t harvesting and curing.

Urge l*****t billionaires to infuse their riches to "absorb" the work of state registrars in key precincts to ensure the correct "turn-out."

Blast as "e******n denialists," "i**********nists," and "democracy destroyers" anyone who objects to these radical b****t changes, neither passed by the U.S. Congress nor by state legislators. Weaponize the FBI, CIA, and Department of Justice.

Fifth, redefine crime as one rich man's crime, another poor man's necessity.

Let those who need "things" exercise their entitlement to them. Rewrite or ignore laws to exempt the oppressed who take, or do what they want as atonement for past s******c r****m and oppression.

Six, junk is the ossified idea of a melting pot and multiracial society united by common American values and ideals. Instead, identify individuals by their superficial appearance. Seek to be a victim and monetize your claims against perceived victimizers. Call anyone a "r****t" who resists.

Encourage each tribe, defined by common race, ethnicity, g****r, or sexual orientation affinities, to band together to oppose the monolithic "white privilege" majority. Encourage social and tribal tensions. Racially discriminate to end discrimination.

Greenlight statue toppling, name changing, boycotting, cancel culturing, ostracizing, and Trotskyizing. Erase the past, control the present, and create a new American person for the future.

Seven, render the United States just one of many nations abroad. Abandon Afghanistan in shame. Leave behind thousands of loyal Afghan allies, billions of dollars in equipment, a billion-dollar embassy, and the largest air base in central Asia. Appease the theocracy to reenter the Iran nuclear deal.

Beg enemies like Venezuela, Russia, and Iran to pump more oil when it is politically expedient for us to have abundant supplies - oil that we have in abundance but won't produce. Discourage friends like Guinea from producing more energy and cancel allies' energy projects like the EastMed pipeline.

Trash but then beg Saudi Arabia to pump more oil right before the midterms for domestic political advantage.

Eight, neuter the First Amendment. Enlist Silicon Valley monopolies to silence unwanted free speech while using Big Tech's mega profits to warp e******ns. Declare free expression "h**e speech." Criminalize contrarian social media.

Nine, demonize half the country as semi-f*****ts, un-Americans, i**********nists, and even potential d******c t*******ts. Try to change inconvenient ancient rules: seek to pack the court, end the filibuster, junk the E*******l College, and bring in two more states.

Twice impeach a president who tried to stand in your way. Try him when he is an emeritus president and private citizen. Raid his home. Seek to indict a future rival to the current president.

Ten, never mention the origins of the C****-** v***s. Never blame China for the release of the SARS-CoV-2 v***s. Exempt investigations of U.S. health officials who subsidized Chinese gain-of-function research. Ignore the Bill of Rights to mandate v******tions, mask-wearing, and quarantines.


We have done all of the above. It would be hard to imagine any planned agenda to destroy America that would have been as injurious as what we already suffered the last two years.

Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. He is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of "The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won," from Basic Books. You can reach him by e-mailing authorvdh@gmail.com.