Big Tech Takedown of Parler is really a take-down of You & America First
Time for a big boy and girl talk. A little patriot conversation if you will.
There is no point wasting energy in complaining about the assaults on free speech that are currently taking place. Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, Google, Instagram, Apple and Youtube are not going to change their minds or their agenda.
Instead drink in the inherent compliment they are paying the America First movement. They are so worried about you and the other 75 million people that voted for President Donald Trump that they’ve fully and completely allowed their anti-democracy masks to slip. For a short term gain Big Tech have sacrificed long term plans and dominance. It’s a strategic long-term mistake.
Fortunately, one platform, GAB, was scorched by Big Tech in the aftermath of 2016. Embarrassingly, I didn’t even notice. Everything that is being executed against Trump and Parler today - was done to them in 2016. Thankfully, they didn’t throw in the towel. No, GAB took it as a sign to build out their own Physical infrastructure. What does this mean you might ask?
Servers, networks & supporting messaging and e-mail systems. This takes time and serious investment. But GAB realized after the takedown that when Big Brother comes for you, they come for all of aspects of your business and lay for keeps. Given this knowledge in the tech world, It was beyond naive for Parler to be purchasing/renting their server requirements from Amazon Web Services. 2020 was littered with increasing levels of conservative censorship so I have to question the leadership of Parler. Did they somehow believe because a few big conservative voices signed up with them this would inoculate them?
I’m sure Jeff Bezos couldn’t resist a big cheese-eating grin as he hit the OFF switch on the Parler servers this morning. Effectively taking hundreds of thousands of conservative voices off the Internet.
However, anyone that’s even moderately paying attention now knows two important facts:
Everyone who is lined up against the movement on the left
Everyone who is lined up against the movement on the right
This is important information to possess. In this pivotal hour, we know exactly who we can’t trust. Everything that Big Tech is doing at the moment has zero to do with Donald Trump and everything to do with splintering those 75 million voters. That collective terrifies them so they have attempted to smother ever voice in the MAGA movement.
President Trump has made very few strategic errors in relation to his interaction with his own base in the last 5 years. However last Wednesday was one of them. Holding a rally in Washington DC on January 6th, the same day as the electoral college results were to be ratified in Congress, was in hindsight an error of judgement. A different date or a different city would have been the much, much wiser course of action.
Vice President Pence was never going to upset the electoral apple-cart and send the electors of the battleground states back to the states to re-examine. Also, we must acknowledge, President Trump had to have known Pence wasn’t going to do this unless he had lost all communication with the Vice-Presidents office in the lead up to January 6th. There is no evidence to support that he had.
The fact that President Trump called for the rally to be peaceful on a number of occasions through-out his speech misses the point. Having 1 million people in DC at a rally point and then marching peacefully on the Capitol was a strategy that required absolutely nothing or no one to deviate from the plan. As a handful of people could de-rail the whole enterprise. And indeed that is exactly what occurred.
On top of this Democrats and globalists were itching for there to be trouble. And no doubt a handful of people on that side of the aisle actively encouraged it, as pictures now emerge of at least 4 or 5 known Antifa activists inside the Capitol building on the day.
But again, let’s get real with ourselves, The America First movement is and held to a higher standard than Antifa or BLM and always will be. There is no point complaining or grumbling about this fact. We can’t change this. We don’t control or have the requisite influence in the Media, Big Tech or Academia , so we will never get a fair shake. Ever. Anywhere.
The aftermath & fall-out has been predictable. Democrats are attempting to use what happened on Wednesday as an opportunity to smash the collective will of the 75 million that voted for the President. It is the unity, spirit and community of the America First or MAGA movement that they must destroy. Not President Trump.
DO NOT LET THEM.
Neither Republican or Democrat establishment politics can point to a similiar cohesive unit of support. The Bernie Bros on the left were the closest competitor but they were in no way as big or as committed to their goals as the MAGA movement. In fact, it is quite clear, in the aftermath of the election to see how quickly the progressive side of the Democrat party, including AOC & Bernie, have sold out to Nancy Pelosi and the DNC. Snake-oil salesmen in the GOP will try to do the same thing now. And try to convince you THEY represent your interests. Most of them don’t.
In the turbulence of the current moment it is critical to stick together. Splintering into fragmented groups dilutes the power of the America First movement. And that is all we have left.
But equally it is all that we need.