90 Miles From Tyranny

Thursday, July 8, 2021

The Wimp Olympics Have Officially Started:

Ok, This Was The Wimpiest Song I Could Think Of...

When you try your best, but you don't succeed

When you get what you want, but not what you need

When you feel so tired, but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse
And the tears come streaming down your face When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone, but it goes to waste

Could it be worse?

What Are Your Nominations For The Wimpiest Song Of All Time?

Obama’s “Vote Protection Director” Now Lobbies For A Firm The State Department Flagged As A ‘Tool’ Of Chinese Communist Party.

Brian McKeon, Barack Obama’s Deputy Director For Voter Protection, now serves as a lobbyist for Tencent – a tech platform flagged by the U.S. State Department as a “tool” of the Chinese Communist Party.

First retained by Tencent in August 2020 to lobby against the Trump administration’s proposed ban on its platform WeChat, McKeon is still registered as an active lobbyist on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party-linked tech firm.

In the first three months of 2021, McKeon’s firm, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, received $200,000 in recorded compensation from Tencent. During that time period, the Biden White House also dropped the Trump administration’s efforts to ban the platform due to national security concerns.

According to The Washington Post, McKeon was a “deputy director for voter protection for Obama for America, helping oversee the effort to recruit and organize attorneys to be poll watchers in the 2012 election.”

And McKeon’s profile at the firm – where he has also lobbied for the controversial Dominion Voting Systems – highlights the position:
Brian served in senior roles for both Shaheen and Boxer’s Senate campaigns, and as a deputy voter protection director to Obama for America.
The State Department’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation has described Tencent as a “tool of the Chinese government,” noting the company has “no meaningful ability to tell the Chinese Communist Party ‘no’ if officials decide to ask for their assistance.” Even the progressive group Amnesty International rated Tencent’s data encryption capabilities zero out of 100, noting it hadn’t “stated publicly that they will not grant government requests to the backdoor.”

It provides “a foundation of technology-facilitated surveillance and social control” as part of the Chinese government’s broader crusade “to shape the world consistent with its authoritarian...

So I stop posting to YouTube at 1 Strike because I know the man-child Colombia University Fascists have enmity for people who "Hold These Truths To Be Self Evident". So what do they do, they wait till I get my inevitable 1 strike, then they go out and find a video from over a year ago to give me 2 strikes. 3 strikes is banned forever.

Now Google, who dropped their motto of "Don't Be Evil", years ago owns both YouTube and Blogger.. so tick tock.

If this blog disappears, I have a backup plan, that plan will be posted on www.ancipient.com. I will not be silenced.

-Mike