{"id":56409,"date":"2021-01-11T09:46:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T14:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56409"},"modified":"2021-01-11T09:46:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T14:46:21","slug":"rabobank-the-purge-could-contribute-to-a-widening-of-the-cultural-and-political-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56409","title":{"rendered":"Rabobank: The Purge Could Contribute To A Widening Of The Cultural And Political Divide"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__11o5_\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__2cUI6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/rabobank-purge-could-contribute-widening-cultural-and-political-divide\">Rabobank: The Purge Could Contribute To A Widening Of The Cultural And Political Divide<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"ArticleFull_mainContent__2fwDC\">\n<div class=\"ArticleFull_body__3kFg9 NodeBody_container__2N7hs\">\n<p>On Friday\u00a0<strong>Twitter took the decision to permanently suspend President Trump from its platform due to the \u201crisk of further incitement of violence\u201d.<\/strong>\u00a0 The day before Facebook had already blocked him.\u00a0 Tech giants have also moved against right-wing social media platform Parler, with Apple and Google removing it from their app stores over the weekend and Amazon withdrawing the cloud service in which it stores its data.\u00a0 In view of the events on Capitol Hill last week, the actions have brought relief for many.\u00a0 However, this news has also sparked warnings that\u00a0<strong>the actions of the tech giants cannot make dissenting opinion vanish and that the purge could contribute to a widening of the cultural and political divide in the US.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For certain there are concerns that the Democrats\u2019 efforts to impeach the President could underscore amongst his supports Trump\u2019s unfounded allegations that the November election was \u2018stolen\u2019 from him<strong>.\u00a0 Democrats are expected to introduce a motion to the House of Representatives today calling on Vice-President Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment in order to strip Trump of his office.\u00a0 If Pence fails to do so, they plan to impeach Trump later in the week<\/strong>.\u00a0 For Senate Republicans, however, this looks to be a step too far.\u00a0 While several have publically criticised the President for his role in the last week\u2019s violence in Washington which led to the death of five people, many have indicated that impeachment may not be the best way to hold Trump accountable.\u00a0 Senator Toomey instead has called for the President to resign and \u201cgo away as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabobank: The Purge Could Contribute To A Widening Of The Cultural And Political Divide On Friday\u00a0Twitter took the decision to permanently suspend President Trump from its platform due to the \u201crisk of further incitement of violence\u201d.\u00a0 The day before Facebook had already blocked him.\u00a0 Tech giants have also moved against right-wing social media platform Parler, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30822,204,1849,24135,24136,4318],"class_list":["post-56409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-cultural-division","tag-democracy","tag-financial-markets","tag-michael-every","tag-rabobank","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}