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Adam - incredibly insightful column in a long line of insightful writing you've been doing. But this one is extra superb. You've pulled back the curtain on the Wizard of Oz and I believe you are exactly correct about what this is all about. Watch out, however, because writing like this will get you put on a list. Perhaps when we board the buses to the "re-education camps" we can sit next to each other. :-) Well done.

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The drive to the gulag is pretty long. We'll have a lot to discuss then 😂

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LOL! I hope no one hears me sitting in my office alone laughing our loud.

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There is a great deal of vague language in that bill which could extend far beyond this one app, too.

What a world we live in, where bipartisanship is rightfully regarded with suspicion.

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Exactly. It can go well beyond TikTok and who knows what they'll declare as adversarial.

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They will declare anything that goes against their interests or agendas as adversarial.

They will use it to attack our freedom of speech. They have been slowly chipping away at that freedom, and we are like frogs in a pot. The water slowly gets hotter and hotter, and by the time they realize they're being cooked, it is too late to react and jump out of the pot. To retain our freedoms, we must react now - before the water gets too hot and we see our freedom vaporize!

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Honest Jack Applebee (aka Steve Mnuchin) is circling like a shark. I'm sure it's for patriotism, the flag and the good of US citizens.

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Completely agree. It’s obvious.

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I believe, based on past actions of our malevolent government, that you are spot on. This is about control of the 'narrative', nothing more. As the most recent example - 'Twitter Files' - show us, the government has controlled all media for a very long time. Read up on Operation Mockingbird.

Also remember that Obama 'updated' the Smith-Mundt Act in 2012 to allow government propaganda within CONUS.

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Exactly. There is so much of it going on.

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