By Mike Huckabee
January 11, 2021
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Good evening! Today's Evening Edition includes:
- BREAKING NEWS: Parler sues Amazon after being shut down
- Problems with impeachment
- Try again Nancy
- Stop the presses
- Big surprise
- CCP comes to the USA
Sincerely,
Mike Huckabee
BREAKING NEWS: Parler sues Amazon after being shut down
By Mike Huckabee
On Monday, Parler filed suit against Amazon for violating their contract by taking them offline, and also for breaking anti-trust laws, as Amazon continues to provide service to Parler's competitor, Twitter.
They also claim that this action was taken not just to help Twitter but out of political animus, violating Parler's civil rights. Details here.
Problems with impeachment
By Mike Huckabee
I already told you about the quixotically dumb idea of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats to impeach President Trump with less than two weeks to go before he leaves office anyway. They’re even saying that it could go on beyond January 20th, so he would be impeached even after he’s already left office. They’re like a deranged dog with a fixation on chewing the mail carrier’s leg off.
In an interview with “60 Minutes,” Pelosi even admitted that the reason why this pointless partisan exercise is more important than, say, providing relief to people suffering from Democrat virus shutdowns is because they’re trying to prevent Trump from being elected again.
Pelosi declared, "This president is guilty of inciting insurrection. He has to pay a price for that."
Apparently, she didn’t learn from her first failed attempt at impeaching Trump that you have to have actual evidence. I criticized Trump’s rhetoric myself, but legal experts have gone over what he said last week, and nothing in his speech meets the legal definition of inciting violence or insurrection. He even specifically called on his supporters to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices be heard.” As law professor Jonathan Turley points out, it would damage the Constitution by setting a precedent of impeaching a President for comments protected by the First Amendment.
Here’s the lack of evidence of incitement explained in even more detail, with a little Latin thrown in for good measure:
After all, it’s not as if he supported and cheered on protesters who stormed into and occupied Pelosi’s office, as Pelosi and AOC did in 2018. Or urged people to commit violence against the President and his supporters, as at least ten Democratic members of Congress did.
There are also a number of other problems with this impeachment scenario. As law professor Alan Dershowitz points out, Senate rules won’t allow the case to be taken up until 1 p.m. January 20th, an hour after Trump leaves office, “and the Constitution specifically says, ‘The President shall be removed from office upon impeachment.’ It doesn’t say the former president. Congress has no power to impeach or try a private citizen, whether it be a private citizen named Donald Trump or named Barack Obama or anyone else.”
But others claim it can be done, and what they really want is to disqualify Trump from being able to run again (wow, they sure seem terrified that he would be reelected after four years of them in charge, which I’m inclined to agree with.) Here’s an article from Reuters making that claim.
However, law professor Glenn Reynolds argues impeachment only disqualifies someone from holding “offices of trust or profit,” which are appointed, not elected offices. Senators can’t tell the voters whom they’re allowed to elect as President. They don’t get a veto on that.
Besides, conviction in the Senate would still require a two-thirds vote, and I don’t know how many Republican Senators from solid Trump states really want to flush their careers down the porcelain convenience just to impeach a President who’s already left office. Maybe, if they try really hard, they could think of something more productive to do with their well-paid time.
Try again Nancy
By Mike Huckabee
How can you tell when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is reeeeeeally on the wrong side of an issue? When even PBS and CBS call her on it. And wow, does she not like that!
Stop the presses
By Mike Huckabee
A major liberal media outlet has finally run an article about Hunter Biden. It’s a puff piece in Vanity Fair about him starting an art career, but it’s a start. Personally, I can’t wait to find out how he ends up making $50,000 a month as a starving artist.
Big surprise
By Mike Huckabee
Big surprise, movie box office receipts took a major hit in 2020, dropping from $11 billion a year in North America to $2.3 billion, and $42.5 billion to $11 billion worldwide.
Frankly, I’m surprised it was that much, considering how most theaters were shut down completely for much of 2020. Theaters in some non-blue states are back open at limited capacity, but people are still wary of returning. The revenues came largely from pay-per-view home streaming releases, which doesn’t help theater chains, and a bit of good news: drive-in theaters, a great American tradition that was dying out, suddenly got a revival. Let’s hope that after the pandemic passes, people remember how much fun drive-ins can be and keep supporting them, especially since many are locally-owned.
By the way, here’s a note from our pop culture expert, Pat Reeder:
“Laura and I already had the Covid, so we go to the movies to help support our local businesses and because we like to see movies on the big screen. However, we haven’t seen a new movie in ages. We’ve recently seen ‘Rear Window,’ ‘The Blues Brothers,’ ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ ‘Anchorman,’ ‘The Birds,’ ‘Spaceballs’ and we’re going again soon to see the Marx Brothers in ‘Duck Soup.’ I honestly tried to find something new last weekend, but there wasn’t a single thing we had any interest in seeing. Here's a crazy thought: Maybe if Hollywood wants to get people back into theaters, they should try making good movies again.”
CCP comes to USA
By Mike Huckabee
Joy Pullman at the Federalist has a must-read round-up of the Great Purge of wrongthink people by Big Tech and other large corporations, and the push for total personal destruction of political opponents by the slanderously misnamed "Lincoln Project" (Abe must be spinning in his grave that they've stolen his name.) She makes the point that they learned these tactics from the Chinese Communist Party’s “social credit” system and are bringing it to America.
This is something that’s long been in the works under the guise of “cancel culture,” social media outrage mobs and public shaming. In case you’re not familiar with it, China uses social media, phone records, thousands of public surveillance cameras with facial recognition technology and other “Big Brother”-like means to keep tabs on everyone’s words and behavior.
If you say or do anything – ANYTHING, even jaywalking – that displeases the government, it goes on your record. Then, when you attempt to exercise any freedom, such as buying a train ticket, you may find that you are not allowed to because your social credit score is too low. The stated goal – indeed, a line used to sell this as a wonderful idea – is that if you follow all the rules and never do or say the "wrong" thing, you can do anything you want. But if you are a bad person who violates the rules or says the “wrong” thing too often, you won’t be allowed to step outside your house. It’s the ultimate in totalitarian control, and notice how it relies on the aid of high tech companies to enforce?
When asked about this, the Chinese will tell you it’s a wonderful system, and they support it completely – but then, what else are they going to say? They're terrified to tell the truth. Here in America, we still have the freedom to call it what it is: an Orwellian nightmare of censorship and intimidation that should be stopped at all costs – but for how long will we keep that freedom? If some people who currently hold a lot of money and power and falsely believe they occupy the moral high ground have their say, not for very long.
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