The assault on the first amendment (and the return of McCarthyism)
I believe this merits its own thread now. The first amendment is definitely under assault.
I just watched the head of th
Yes we should have free speech though that does not limit the possibility of an outcome based on your speech. I think we all agree what the FCC did was a violation of freedom of speech. The government should stay out of it. I think we also agree that Biden's administration also violated freedom of speech by directing the FBI to censor folks on platforms Sadly in countries like
It would be great if it were otherwise but I think what we'll end up seeing is Disney getting cancelled in fairly short order. Kimmel has most of hollywood and the media behind him along with a ton of public outrage.
But he increased the deficit. Hugely.
The deficits have been higher under Republicans than under Democrats for all of my lifetime. It's a joke that you think increasing the deficit is a liberal or left-wing policy. It's far closer to the opposite.
Are there any exemples of any officials actually celebrating Kirk's death or is it just a feeling based on the twitter derposphere?
Do I have any sympathy for Kimmel nope he laughed and joked when Tucker got fired. The funny thing is Tucker is standing up for him as well and hates what was done
Tucker is not standing up for Kimmel; he's standing up against government overreach. At least he's smart enough to understand that just because some dude laughed at him over losing his job, he shouldn't support the FCC coercing companies to fire people over opinions.
He sees the bigger picture. Hard to say if it's because he sees how this can spillover one day to how he earns his paycheck so he has a personal interest, or if it's because it's a basic tenet of the United States that should be preserved.
It’s all well and good to invent your own political theory, but just don’t be surprised when people have no idea what you’re talking about. If you have to semantically load a term such that you need dozens of paragraphs to define and motivate it, when in common language the term has a usage that most agree with, you’re going to end up speaking a different language from everyone
You know very well that no matter what i consider fascism, the meaning of the word is definitely not agreed upon by people. While some stuff would find a lot of people in agreement about being fascist (including me), most of what leftist accuse the right to do as fascism in europe and the USA does not find normal people in agreement.
Same is true for "racism" and other words.
Given the strategy of the left for decades has been about loading 6-8-10 words with "everything negative possible" then using it randomly to define everything everyone that opposes them says or does, going with "you are inventing your politcal theory" when i try to define words the left uses without defining is pretty gross.
Besides in some countries (like in Italy) fascism is actually a crime so we do have legal definitions (and the equivalent of case law) and they are very different from what people claim around here.
A fascist and a racist walk into a bar. The bartender says 'Hello Lucy, the usual cheap Lambrusco?"
Forgot that 25 years ago ABC fired Bill Maher for saying the 9/11 dudes flying the planes were not cowards . Pressure from the government than also
Forgot that 25 years ago ABC fired Bill Maher for saying the 9/11 dudes flying the planes were not cowards . Pressure from the government than also
I don’t remember this and don’t know the details, but as we all know, famously during and after 9/11 the elected president was a democrat
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I gotta wonder, but not from you of course, cuz you are quite obviously a complete ****ing moron, but as a general thought, what is it like going through life as an intellectually dishonest edgelord who insists on shitposting memes that reframe your argument to what you want it to be versus what it actually is
Probably seems sweet
Huge big wow! Was not expecting this.
Cruz presumably has abandoned whatever presidential ambitions he once had, which means he feels more free to offer his actual views rather than fluff Trump. His views will still be horrible most of the time (as they were before Trump came on the scene), but in this particular case he happens to be correct.
Cruz presumably has abandoned whatever presidential ambitions he once had, which means he feels more free to offer his actual views rather than fluff Trump. His views will still be horrible most of the time (as they were before Trump came on the scene), but in this particular case he happens to be correct.
I think this is giving Cruz (and by extension Tucker and everyone else you wouldn’t expect) too much credit
This is little more than self-serving people worried that if the Dems happen to take a presidency it’s going to be built on revenge and wanting to plant their flag now
I think this is giving Cruz (and by extension Tucker and everyone else you wouldn’t expect) too much credit
This is little more than self-serving people worried that if the Dems happen to take a presidency it’s going to be built on revenge and wanting to plant their flag now
I don't even know what Democratic "revenge" directed at Ted Cruz would look like. What could they really do to him?
I also wasn't giving Cruz credit. To the contrary, I was describing someone who basically has no principles at all if he is seeking a higher office than the one he currently occupies.
I don't even know what Democratic "revenge" directed at Ted Cruz would look like. What could they really do to him?
I also wasn't giving Cruz credit. To the contrary, I was describing someone who basically has no principles at all if he is seeking a higher office than the one he currently occupies.
I don’t either, but it feels like once the rubicon has been crossed where one side has flagrantly and unapologetically gone into aggressive totalitarianism and removing constitutional rights from one political side I would assume some on the side of the oppressor would be terrified of the oppressed taking power
And considering the high amount of career Dems that will be facing being primaried the energy of what replaces them is pretty unknown
Edit: and this is also why I feel it is logical to assume we’ve had our last fair election. An incumbent party that has decided to weaponize every single government agency and has decided being a liberal is enough reason for your livelihood to be threatened and is putting their thumbs on the scale to ensure that isn’t likely to allow that power to be used against them any time soon
Cruz presumably has abandoned whatever presidential ambitions he once had, which means he feels more free to offer his actual views rather than fluff Trump. His views will still be horrible most of the time (as they were before Trump came on the scene), but in this particular case he happens to be correct.
I strongly doubt that. Most of the remaining equity Cruz has in becoming president is if Trump is viewed like W Bush was in 08, a failure even to republicans and people like Vance and Rubio will be blamed along with Trump. That may be unlikely but it's unlikely for him to be president anyway.
I wonder if cruz senses cracks in the Republicans blind support of trump.
I tend to think it’s more that 1 of 2 things are going to happen
1. Trump will successfully rig or cancel the midterms
2. The republicans will get wiped out in the midterms to the point where somehow the senate might actually be in play based on all these actions
He’ll hedge, then he’ll bend the knee if it goes trump’s way. Same as always
I tend to think it’s more that 1 of 2 things are going to happen
1. Trump will successfully rig or cancel the midterms
2. The republicans will get wiped out in the midterms to the point where somehow the senate might actually be in play based on all these actions
'The end of the world is nigh, there will be war, pestilence and famine, and the earth shall crack open and nameless abominations shall crawl forth across the face of the land! Or else possibly none of this will happen and things will pretty much carry on as normal and so forget everything I just said! Thank you!' (Rattles loose change in old tin cup while wearing slightly absurd sandwich board with far too many words on it.)
Sometimes I wonder if this was all permitted to happen because a big part of the population (baby-boomer) are getting very old and don’t pay attention or don’t care much since they won’t suffer the consequences of trumpist .
So they dont Push back much , don’t votes or w.e .
A sitting President had his social media banned. How unself aware are you people???

