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On the recordOctober 19, 2020
Thank you very much, Mr. President. I have to tell you, listening to the Democratic leader there, this is one of the things that social media has taken off on. They lost. They lost the 2016 Presidential election, and they have never accepted the results. Never. It doesn't fit their narrative. So what do they do? Look at this. Let's just not even work. Let's just adjourn. Let's not do our constitutional duty. I tell you what, you can't make this stuff up. You really can't. Cognitive dissonance of this moment in history has overwhelmed the discourse. It is important to make it abundantly clear that the outrage--the absolute outrage from the American people over this incident with social media has everything to do with their very fluid and subjective standards that these companies use to control the flow of information, and over the last few years, they have gotten worse about it. And you know what? They do it until we slap their hands and then pull them back in, and we say: You can't do this. Now, in the case that we are discussing that happened last week, it looks suspiciously like they applied a brandnew set of standards because someone got spooked at the prospect of losing momentum on a political narrative. They are all working together on this. So let's go home; let's not work; let's not do our job; let's bury a story on social media. Why? Their gal didn't win in 2016, and Donald Trump did because the American people said: We are with him, not her.…
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Marsha Blackburn
Republican · Tennessee
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govinfo.gov
Oct 19, 2020

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