.... Water and ideas always find a way

Jul 29, 2024

Dear Patriot,

Water and ideas always find a way to move out and around any impediment. Historically, the marxists, communists, socialists and Democrats strove to limit free thinking and alternative ideas by burning books that they do not approve. This works in the short term but eventually, ideas seep out.

Be water.

Stay adaptable. Move around the rocks thrown on your path. Do not stagnate in negative thinking. Leak out the truth.

The next 100 days will be a constant challenge to maneuver through the Fake News lies and omissions.

Today, we offer you free thoughts on several subjects….

banning of books.
hiding the assassination attempt.
nationwide election training.
the future significance of J.D. Vance.
evil at the Olympics.

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1- The more things change, the more they stay the same. It is incomprehensible to have a GERMAN publisher refuse to print Hillbilly Elegy due to the political opinions of the author. This is identical to the actions by the nazis 91 years ago.

Jonathan Turley

German Publisher Stops All Printing of JD Vance’s Book Hillbilly Elegy

QUOTE: JD Vance is a marked man. After accepting the nomination for vice president, Vance has been the subject of endless media attacks. Recently, Vice President Kamala Harris even questioned his “loyalty”to the country despite his serving as a Marine in the Iraq War. Yet, one of the most chilling attacks came from Germany where the publishing house Ullstein Buchverlage has stopped printing the sold-out German translation of Hillbilly Elegy, his 2016 autobiography.
As we have discussed previously in this country, it is the modern left’s equivalent of book burning. After all, why burn books when you can simply prevent their being printed under blacklisting campaigns?
Ullstein is facing a high demand for Vance’s best-selling book Hillbilly Elegy, but has refused to print more copies due to his political viewpoints (unrelated to the book).
First published in 2016 and made into a movie in 2020, the book returned to the top position on The New York Times‘ bestseller list after Trump chose Vance as his running mate. HarperCollins is rushing to print more books to meet the demand.
We have seen similar campaigns leading to the banning or burning of books by figures like JK Rowling because of her opposition to some transgender policies. The left now protests any programs on Rowling’s work and opposes the selling of her enormously popular Harry Potter series or even video games based on the series. When authors have defended her right to be published, they have also been subjected to cancel campaigns.
Yet, Ullstein’s decision is particularly chilling as a publishing house. Again, we have seen editors at publishing houses sign petitions to bar books by conservative figures like Justice Amy Coney Barrett from being published.
In 1933, thousands of books by Jewish and leftist writers were burned throughout Germany. Publishing houses further banned the printing of these books. The books were announced as corrupting the minds of German citizens. Many books were banned or burned on the basis of the authors being Jewish or known socialists or anarchists.
Now the left has developed a taste for censorship and blacklisting. Editors and publishing houses are blacklisting those with conservative or libertarian views as forms of dangerous viewpoints or disinformation.
Ullstein will, of course, not stop people from reading the work of JD Vance. While it may make it more difficult for Germans to find copies, ideas like water have a way of finding their way out. Blacklisting and censorship have not succeeded in killing a single idea. What it does is reveal the true character and values of those who want to prevent others from hearing opposing viewpoints.

2- As of Sunday evening, if you googled information on the attempted assassination of Trump, you would think that it never happened. This is censorship and propaganda by omission. Millions of people across the world witnessed the event live. Thousands of stories have been written and read. But, Google wants you to forget that you saw a bullet narrowly miss President Trump.

Breitbart

Down the Memory Hole: Google Hides Autocomplete Suggestions Related to Trump Assassination Attempt

QUOTE: Google has hidden autocomplete suggestions related to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. By removing autocomplete suggestions, the Masters of the World are trying to make it more difficult for users to access information about the attempt on Trump’s life. This is just the latest act of election interference by the internet giant.
Breitbart News tested Google’s search bar on Sunday, finding that typing in the words “assassination attempt” resulted in autocomplete suggestions of “truman,” “reagan,” “fidel castro,” “slovakia,” “bob marley,” “lenin,” “gerald ford,” “teddy roosevelt,” “saudi arabia,” “john paul ii,” and “franklin roosevelt.”
Taking it a step further by typing in “assassination attempt trum” — omitting only the last letter of President Trump’s surname — resulted in autocomplete suggestions of “truman,” “president truman,” and “harry truman.”
Moreover, when users type in the full spelling, “assassination attempt trump,” into Google’s search bar, no autocomplete suggestions appear.
Notably, President Trump survived an assassination attempt against him during his July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, after being shot in the ear by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was laying prone with a rifle atop a roof less than 500 feet from the 45th president.
Google is not the only entity shielding the public eye from what transpired in Butler.
As for Google and its clandestine search bar results, this is not the first time the tech giant appears to be censoring election-related content.
As Breitbart News reported last month, when searching for a candidate’s name with “presidential race 2024,” Google returned results for President Joe Biden’s campaign website at the top result, while President Trump’s campaign website did not appear on the first page.

3- Join this effort as soon as you can. It is a real option for helping secure a fair election.

Breitbart

RNC Holds Massive Election Integrity Training Nationwide with 100 Days to Go

QUOTE: The Republican National Committee (RNC) is preparing to celebrate 100 days to go until the 2024 presidential election by holding a massive election integrity training event across the nation.
Virtual and in-person trainings will be hosted by the Trump campaign throughout 17 states and led by several “top-level surrogates” who will provide remarks “designed to energize grassroots volunteers,” according to a press release from the RNC shared exclusively with Breitbart News.
The trainings come as the RNC celebrates on July 28 one hundred days to go until victory for former President Donald Trump and other Republican candidates “up and down the ballot.”
“The RNC is excited to announce that today is our Election Integrity Day of Training,” RNC Chairman Michael Whatley said in a statement. “We are proud to join the NRCC and NRSC in conducting the first-ever national election integrity campaign designed to protect the ballot.”
The RNC’s recent press release noted that “under Chairman Whatley” and RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump, the RNC was “executing an unprecedented legal strategy and fighting in courtrooms across the country with nearly 100 legal” interventions taking place during this cycle.
“Our mission is simple: make it easy to vote and hard to cheat,” Whatley added in his statement. “We are calling on all patriots to join our efforts to get out the vote, protect the ballot, and Make America Great Again!”