My head hurts, my heart aches, and I am despondent for the first time in a long time. The revelations coming from Twitter under Elon Musk are exhausting and Orwellian.
Non-leftists have long suspected that they were treated differently and that their voices were actively silenced by Big Tech. The Twitter Files, as the releases have come to be known, started on December 2nd and continued on the 9th. More releases are forthcoming, and I honestly cannot fathom what nightmares will be contained therein. So far, given the voluminous amount of data Elon Musk has made available to the journalists, only the shadow-banning, and outright silencing of conservatives has been released.
Various United States Federal Agencies actively consulted and colluded with Twitter senior management to silence the voices of Americans who disagreed with their world view. This is a blatant violation of the First Amendment and is in no way defensible. It is also blatant election interference by not just Twitter senior management and employees but by every participant at the Federal and State level, whether they actively participated or just remained silent. Every single one of these people need to be indicted and face a jury. Every name must be released and public shaming and shunning of these swamp rats must begin.
I was one of those average Americans silenced on Twitter. The low IQ crowd took delight in their lack of reading comprehension and just started banning conservative accounts. To this day, my account is still suspended. I refuse to delete a Tweet to satisfy a weak, spineless, mindless drone.
As angry, frustrated, pissed off, and outraged as I, and far too many others are tonight, are we know nothing will happen to these imbeciles who changed, no they actively engineered, the course of history because of their “feelings”. The FBI or DHS or the DOJ aren’t going to charge their employees, they certainly will not charge former Twitter employees for election interference. There will be no prosecution for perjury for lying to Congress under oath.
Legacy media will not cover the story until it simply gets too big to continue to ignore and sweep under the carpet. The corruption is so pervasive and systemic that I do not see a method for restoring public trust. Elon Musk is a damn superhero who unfortunately has placed his own life and the life of his loved ones in jeopardy by exposing the filth and corruption to the light of day. He is in my prayers, as are the journalists who are exposing the contents of the files.
I am despondent tonight because I know my husband is right when he says it’s a “nothing burger”. Not because there is nothing there but rather because nothing shall change. The corruption will fester, the politicians will pontificate and do nothing, and The Constitution will be an obituary to a once great nation.
The worst aspect of all of this is that Twitter was far from alone in doing what it did to conservatives. Facebook, Instagram, Google, Apple all immediately spring to mind. I am positive that every entity in America that conspired with the United States government to silence and deplatform individuals from the average American like me to the sitting United States President is actively engaged in purging their servers and files of every scrap or hint of anything like what was released tonight. The government, state and Federal, are undoubtedly doing likewise, and breaking multiple laws in the process.
My brain and my heart are torn. The eternal optimist in me says that the nation is stronger than this and with time and convictions, we will recover. The pessimistic side is screaming that the corruption is so deep-rooted it will be impossible to clean house effectively and that dissolution is the only viable path forward. There has to be middle ground, there is always middle ground, but for the life of me, I cannot see a path toward compromise. The systemic corruption is just one obstacle to compromise and restoration of public trust.
My prayers aren’t for my loved ones this evening but rather for all those working to expose the lies and corruption. For the nation I love and no longer recognize. For those complicit in the trampling of The Constitution.
The coming revelations will be painful and disheartening. They will challenge the faith we have in our nation, our institutions, and one another. Those who have been exposed will scream that the revelations are “nothing” or that by bringing the collusion into the light we are “endangering” lives. As always, their “feelings” will be of paramount importance and everyone else be damned. I refuse to be deterred and I refuse to remain silent. I am an American citizen and within the bounds of The First Amendment, I will say what I want, when I want, and in whatever manner I so desire. Your feelings do not come into my decision making. If you consider speech violence, then I pity you and refer you to the annals of history to learn what true violence is.
I may retire this evening with a heavy heart, but I have faith that there is a path to the middle ground and someone can see it clearly.
May God Bless the United States of America