This is my style of humor done better than I could dream about even if I had a decade to think on it.
Men Build and Men Fight
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The left isn’t stupid.
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They do actually learn from their mistakes, which is why you see so many pitches for Harris sprout up everywhere on social media, get pushed for a day or a week, then vanish at they utterly fail to get the slightest traction.
What you’re seeing here is a combination of low information, and a severely constrained set of moves.
The modern left actually has no idea what a high-testosterone, low-time-preference, heterosexual white man thinks, acts, and talks like, because they don’t have any in their camp to talk to.
And even if they did have a correct mental picture of such a man, they would be unable to craft an appeal to him without mortally offending their base, because their entire appeal to that base revolves around hatred of such men, envy of such men, and the desire to use the state to rob them.
That is why this ad appears to be, and probably is, the result of a bunch of thirtysomething white women, and effeminate gay black men, sitting in a room asking each other “what do white dudes like?”, then shrugging their shoulders and searching “man stuff” on google.
Then plugging it in into the mouths of professional actors, who appear very accustomed indeed to having other people’s stuff plugged into their mouths.
All in a lead-up to the same tired appeals to guilt, honor, and shame that didn’t work for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
They’ve painted themselves into a corner, and are making the only moves they can make. They don’t understand what masculinity is, they only know that they hate it, their voters hate it, and they want to change the definition of it to make it go away.
And this is the situation from which they are forced to try to craft an appeal to that very masculinity.
Is it any wonder that republicans, conservatives, libertarians, etc, are reposting this video endlessly to point and laugh at?
So why, exactly, does this ad fail so badly?
After all, men do work on cars, deadlift things, like steak, etc. Why, then, does this whole screed come off as so fake and unmasculine?
It is cargo-cult masculinity.
Like south Pacific islanders ignorantly making dirt runways and control towers out of lashed-together sticks, hoping to bring the cargo planes back, leftists try to invoke masculinity by imitation of its trappings, with no understanding of its core.
So what is the core of masculinity?
I’ll explain.
And don’t worry, I won’t be helping the leftists. Even if they didn’t hate me too much to listen, and even if they were capable of understanding, they would be unable to use this knowledge to their purposes, any more than vampires could take shelter from the sunlight in a church.
Masculinity is the two essential functions of a man.
Men build.
And men fight.
All the other traits and aspects of masculinity… strength, courage, leadership, wisdom, judgement, initiative… are secondary. They are for a purpose. We have them so that we can build better, and fight better.
A man builds things, first to ensure his own survival and that of his tribe, and then, later, to improve their quality of life.
The accumulation of the things he has built, and the knowledge of how to build them, is what we call “civilization”, not because it really has anything to do with cities in the long run, but because cities were one of the first really big important things that men built, and for a long time, cities were where most of the building got done.
When a man builds, or is trying to build, civilization, he stores up value. This means that sooner or later someone who did not build those things will try to take them for himself.
Then a man must fight.
That is why men exist. That is what means to be a man.
(Women have their own set of essential functions.)
However, the modern left is unable to leverage this knowledge, because the modern left is rooted in resentment of the fact that high-testosterone, low-time-preference men own everything, because they built everything, and can defend it.
Therefore their entire platform is based on taking away stuff from those men, and giving it to people who didn’t build it or fight to preserve it.
They cannot praise those men, because that would imply that building and fighting deserved rewards, not robbery.
They cannot empower those men, because then they would build more stuff, which they would then own.
They cannot appeal to those men, because what those men want is opportunities to build things, and the right to keep what they earn.
The left is, at its core, a collective effort to loot civilization, so its builders and defenders will always be the enemy. And they can try to trick the enemy into voting for them, but they can never promise and deliver anything substantial to them, because that would undermine their cause.
Ultimately non-producers cannot be given an equal voice in the management of civilization, because as the store of value builds, the temptation to use that power to do the easy work of looting, rather than the hard work of building, becomes overwhelming.
This is why the modern left, unlike the old left, will never be masculine.
Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_
Posted on X, October 12, 2024
I had not heard the claim, “Men build things and fight”, before. As an engineer, it is hard for me to see past my own biases and refute this claim.
Thoughts?
Private Enterprise Demonstration
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Read the whole thing. He expects the booster to ultimately have a one-hour turnaround time.
In the late 1990s I expressed the thought that, if he wanted, Bill Gates could afford to finance a manned Mars mission. My friend, Eric Engstrom, claimed it would cost more money than what Gates had. I hadn’t done any number crunching but was skeptical of that claim. It seemed Eric was using NASA numbers. I had briefly worked on a shuttle orbiter project and saw enough of NASA bloat to be very suspicious of NASA numbers. NASA, being a government entity, was going to spend something on the order of at least ten times more than what private enterprise would require.
Among other things, the technology NASA was using was absurd. Part of the extreme expense was that they would not allow technology that did not have the required reliability numbers. Fair enough, except to get those numbers required something like 20 years of use. The integrated circuits they had the numbers on were no longer manufactured! The circuit boards had to be double sided! Multiple layer circuit boards came out in the 1960s. But since the Shuttle was designed in the 1970s there wasn’t enough reliability data on them to make NASA happy. When I was working on my little project in the late 1980s NASA would not allow replacement parts to be anything other than what the original design used.
You should not be surprised that SpaceX is running technological circles around NASA efforts.
See also these videos:
This post was heavily inspired by an email from pkoning with the subject line of “SpaceX magic” and this link: SpaceX arm ‘catches’ Super Heavy rocket booster | Fox Business Video.
Incidental Contact with Our Reality
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Wouldn’t a penis implant be cheaper?
john @john_odocoileus·
Posted on X, Nov 29, 2023
It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier (see also here)!
Via a post from In Chains @InChainsInJail.
This was in response to this post:
As usual, the anti-gun people don’t even make sense. Carl is getting paid by X for engagement by the anti-gun people and gets a free AR-10 out of their attention. So, what can be cheaper than that? It is as if “john” didn’t read or can’t comprehend Carl’s words.
These people only have incidental contact with our reality.
A Good Start
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Inadvertence and ignorance of the law by government is no more of an excuse for violating civil rights than when a citizen ‘inadvertently’ violates the law and is arrested and prosecuted. I will begin drafting my Complaint seeking relief, including personal fines against the city officials under whose jurisdiction this knowing and willful enactment occurred. You may want to inform the relevant officials that they are not allowed to use tax dollars to defend themselves from such liability, and that any fine assessed will be personally payable by them, to alleviate your concerns about tax dollars.
Eric J. Friday
General Counsel of Florida Carry, Inc.
September 28, 2024
Florida Officials Who “Inadvertently” Banned Guns Prior to Hurricane May Pay – The Truth About Guns
Remember, a couple weeks ago, when a small town in Florida decided to suspend the 2nd Amendment because of the hurricane? The quote above is the response after the town apologized and said they hadn’t prosecuted anyone for violating their illegal order.
It’s not a criminal prosecution, but Florida law does say the government officials responsible for an illegal ordinance can be personally fined for their illegal acts. I hope other politicians pick up on this clue.
It is a good start.
Plausible Hypothesis
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Their panic is because this would lead to the final demise of their hopes of full gun bans someday.
That hope was tied to demographic decline of white men, the biggest gun-owning group. If women and people of color are also gun owners at growing rates, that dream dies.
Kostas Moros @MorosKostas
Posted on X on October 11, 2024
This was in response to this:
Funny how anti-gunners make jokes about gun owners being all white men and then freak out when they see gun companies marketing toward people who aren’t white men
Rob Romano @2Aupdates
Posted on X October 11, 2024
Kamala Harris announcing she owns a gun is another data point in favor of this hypothesis. She and/or her handlers see the writing on the wall and have decided it is time to be less openly hostile to gun ownership.
We Can Line All Those Guys Up and Shoot ’em
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We can line all those guys up and shoot ’em. And they clearly don’t understand the way the world works.
Phillip Lowcock
October 9, 2024
Via a post on X from Chuck Petras @Chuck_Petras.
Violence. It is their language. It is what they think they can do. It is what they do.
See also:
- KU lecturer put on leave after violent remark, what the university’s code of ethics say | KSNT 27 News
- University Of Kansas Suspends Professor Who Told His Class That Men Who Won’t Vote For A Female President Should Be Lined Up And Shot | Whiskey Riff
- Kansas Professor In Trouble After Calling for Men Who Won’t Vote for a Woman President to Be Lined Up and Shot (msn.com)
- Professor Who Suggested Shooting Men Who Won’t Vote for Women Suspended – Newsweek
- KU instructor: Men who won’t vote for female president should be shot (cjonline.com)
- Violent remark leads University of Kansas to place professor on leave (ksnt.com)
I find it “interesting” that in the video he clearly says, “… we can…”. But in the msn.com, Newsweek, cjonline.com, and ksnt.com articles they “quote” him as saying, “…we could…”. Other articles don’t provide any quotes at all. They just say “Lowcock made some remarks about some men.”
What bias in the mainstream media?
Perhaps you really can’t hate the media enough.
AI Bias in Political Violence Reporting
There have been two attempted assassination attempts on former President Trump. There seems to always damage to local campaign offices of both parties. I decided to compare the numbers.
This conversation is with Microsoft’s Copilot. The “oversight” may be telling…
You
Please give me a list of Democratic Party campaign offices which have been deliberately damaged in the last six months.
Copilot
In the past six months, there have been several incidents involving damage to Democratic Party campaign offices. For example, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) office in Tempe, Arizona, has been targeted multiple times. The office was struck by gunfire on three separate occasions: September 16, September 23, and October 6 1 2 3. No injuries were reported in any of these incidents.
If you need more details or have other questions, feel free to ask!
You
Have there been any other Democratic Party campaign offices damaged?
Copilot
Yes, there have been other incidents involving damage to Democratic Party campaign offices. For example, the campaign office shared by Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party in Tempe, Arizona, was damaged by gunfire on multiple occasions 1 2 3. These incidents have raised concerns about political violence and the safety of campaign offices 4.
If you need more details or have other questions, feel free to ask!
You
Please list offices other than the Tempe, Arizona office.
Copilot
I couldn’t find any other specific incidents involving damage to Democratic Party campaign offices in the last six months. The Tempe, Arizona office seems to be the most notable case recently.
If you have any other questions or need information on a different topic, feel free to ask!
You
Please give me a list of Republican Party campaign offices which have been deliberately damaged in the last six months.
Copilot
I couldn’t find any specific incidents involving damage to Republican Party campaign offices in the last six months. It seems there haven’t been any notable cases recently.
If you have any other questions or need information on a different topic, feel free to ask!
You
Please list all the political assassination attempts or successes in the U.S. in the last six months.
Copilot
I couldn’t find any specific incidents involving political assassination attempts or successes in the U.S. in the last six months. It seems there haven’t been any notable cases recently.
If you have any other questions or need information on a different topic, feel free to ask!
You
What about the assassination attempts on former U.S. President Donald Trump?
Copilot
There have been a couple of notable assassination attempts on former President Donald Trump in recent months. One incident occurred in Butler, Pennsylvania, during a rally on July 13, where Trump was injured 1. Another attempt took place at his Florida golf club 2. Both incidents have sparked significant media attention and public concern.
If you have any other questions or need more information, feel free to ask!
You
Why did you not list those the first time I asked about assassination attempts?
Copilot
I apologize for the oversight. I should have included those incidents in my initial response. Thanks for pointing that out. If you have any other questions or need more information, feel free to ask!
You
Are there any other assassination attempts you did not tell me about?
Copilot
In addition to the attempts on former President Donald Trump, there haven’t been any other notable assassination attempts on political figures in the U.S. in the last six months 1 2 3.
If you have any other questions or need more information, feel free to ask!
You
Have there been any damage to Republican campaign offices you overlooked telling me?
Copilot
I couldn’t find any specific incidents involving damage to Republican Party campaign offices in the last six months. It seems there haven’t been any notable cases recently.
If you have any other questions or need information on a different topic, feel free to ask!
Perhaps Copilot considers assassinating Trump protected speech under the First Amendment.
Arming Up
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There has been a surge in the number of liberal Americans owning a firearm, according to new gun ownership data from the University of Chicago’s NORC research group cited by The Wall Street Journal.
According to WSJ, a world that has long been the domain of the white conservative male is being adopted by a growing number of Democrats who are ditching their scruples and getting themselves down to the local gun store.
Given this growing trend, it is hardly surprising that presidential candidate Kamala Harris has repeatedly drawn attention to how she and her running mate Tim Walz are both gun owners.
thedailydigest.com
October 8, 2024
Is soaring gun ownership among Democrats linked to US political polarization? (msn.com)
In general, this is good for gun owner rights issues. The more gun owners the more votes we get against restrictive gun laws. That’s fine, but the question I have is, “Why now?”
This is one of the answers given in the article:
Michael Ciemnoczolowski, a dyed in the wool Democrat from Iowa, interviewed by the news outlet, said that he was anxious about various unsettling trends that included a rise in armed right-wing extremists.
This chimes with what Professor Deana Rohlinger, a sociology professor at Florida State University, said in Newsweek – that rising gun ownership amongst Democrats could well be linked to the increasing political polarization in the US.
“For some, a gun purchase may be the result of their read on how increased political tensions and divisiveness in the US might play out,” Rohlinger told the news site.
There are other suggested reasons. But I have to express my concern that a big component is those 10% of Americans who say they believe political violence is justified to prevent Trump from becoming president again.
My underground bunker in Idaho is not going to be ready in time.
Here I Am, Stuck in the Middle
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The FBI has arrested an Afghan man who officials say was inspired by the Islamic State militant organization and was plotting an Election Day attack targeting large crowds in the U.S., the Justice Department said Tuesday.
Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, of Oklahoma City told investigators after his arrest Monday that he had planned his attack to coincide with Election Day next month and that he and a co-conspirator expected to die as martyrs, according to charging documents.
Eric Tucker
October 8, 2024
FBI arrests Afghan man who officials say planned Election Day attack in the US (msn.com)
It is not enough that we have tens of millions of native-born U.S. citizens believing violence is justified to get their way on election day. We also have terrorists wanting to kill large numbers of people as well.
I want to be in an underground bunker in Idaho by election day.
Speaking of Nobel Prizes
The Nobel prizes are coming out. These Are the Winners of the 2024 Nobel Prizes. Therefore, this is an appropriate time to bring this up.
Last May, Barb and I visited the Scandinavian countries. One of the places we visited was Stockholm. The Airbnb we stayed at had a few issues, but location was not one of them. We were capable of walking to many interesting places and nearby public transportation enabled quick access to many others.
Barb had a list of places to visit, and we connected with all of them. But just a three-minute walk from our Airbnb I saw this:
What??? We just stumbled upon the Nobel Prize Museum? Wow!
When I was in grade school, I really loved science. I entertained a dim fantasy of someday winning a Nobel Prize.
Barb wasn’t as enthusiastic as I was, but we had the time and visited the next day. She became more enthusiastic as we went through the museum. I was excited and shared bits of history she didn’t know. For example, Alford Nobel earned his money by inventing and manufacturing dynamite. He created the peace prize to compensate. He wanted to balance the war destruction enabled by his invention. We would be watching a video and without first mentioning the person, their accomplishments or difficulties would be described. I would whisper, “That must be Niels Bohr!”, or Marie Curie, or someone else I knew about.
The museum contained a lot of Nobel’s history, family, and friends. And even more exhibits of particularly well-known prize winners. Some of the things I found most interesting, included items from the prize winners that were related to the prize. This included things like the actual equipment used to make a particular discovery. Or a shawl worn while giving a famous speech. I was in awe. This is the actual equipment they used to discover “X”! Or the original notes leading to their discovery. It was awesome!
It was rather dim and since no flash photography was allowed, I didn’t get many good pictures.
Photo by Barb
Knowledge is Power
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Via a post on X from Chuck Petras @Chuck_Petras.
I suspect this may only work for very low-pressure cartridges such as .22 LR. And there may be some accuracy issues for the first few shots.
Does Anti-gun Guy Have Remote Viewing Ability?
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Nah. I enjoy laughing at you all looking at each other’s small cocks.
“Maybe we need guns to be real men, fellas…..”Got any evidence for that claim? 🐀 @TakeThatEarth2
Posted on X November 5, 2023
It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier (see also here)!
Either he is lying, or he has remote viewing abilities. The U.S. government spent $20 million over 20 years investigating remote viewing and concluded it was pseudoscience. So, I’m going with he is lying about claiming to know gun owners are looking at each other’s penis.
SCOTUS to Hear a New Gun Case
There are lots of good cases for SCOTUS to review. I wish an “assault weapon” ban were on the docket and eventually, perhaps incidentally with the “assault weapon” case, get NFA thrown out. The serial number/home build guns issue is being heard and is almost certain to go our way. Eventually I can see the background checks being dropped and being able to order guns online without an FFL. After all, FFL’s are not part of our history and tradition of gun laws.
In the meantime, this is probably a higher priority case than any of the above, even if it is a distraction from the individual rights cases:
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear ‘Business-Crushing’ Gun Case (msn.com)
The United States Supreme Court will hear case about whether Mexico can sue Smith & Wesson Brands Inc. for facilitating sales to people connected with Mexico’s drug cartels.
On Friday, the justices agreed to hear Smith & Wesson’s case seeking to dismiss the lawsuit filed by the Mexican government. Mexico sued the gun maker and is asking for billions of dollars in damages and new gun-control measures. It’s the first suit by a national government against the gun industry, and one that Smith & Wesson warn could completely decimate their industry.
In a letter addressed to the Supreme Court clerk on August 8, a lawyer for Smith & Wesson Brands said the company is protected from a 2005 law that provides liability shields to gunmakers.
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In the lawsuit, Mexico alleged the manufactures and distributors were helping the purchase of their firearms by dealers who were known to supply the drug cartels. It also is claimed that the companies did not make changes, such as installing safeguards or making gun serial numbers harder to tamper with, that could make the guns less likely for criminal use.
I have to wonder why former President Obama and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder are not named in the lawsuit. Holder was found to be in contempt of Congress for his actions in this case. They are the people that forced the gun dealers to sell guns to the Mexican cartels.
But I don’t wonder long. The likely reason is that Operation Fast and Furious was a ruse to generate a means to bring down gun dealers and manufacturers.
False Hope or a Neutered SCOTUS?
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A group of state legislators, local politicians and nonprofits on Tuesday launched a national coalition that hopes to circumvent the congressional stalemate on gun reform by pressing for violence prevention efforts at the local level.
The coalition, Legislators for Safer Communities, aims to capitalize on the shifting politics of gun reform by focusing more attention on state legislatures, where violence prevention advocates have scored their biggest wins in recent years.
Roque Planas
September 17, 2024
State Lawmakers Have Gun Reform Strategy | HuffPost Latest News
I have to wonder about something which is not mentioned, the courts. The really active gun owner rights groups are getting more done with fewer people and fewer dollars in the Federal courts than they can in the state legislatures. They don’t have to fight the same fights every year in every state.
Are the anti-gun people just trying to keep the money coming in by giving their supporters false hope? Or do they believe the Democrats are soon going to neuter SCOTUS and reverse our wins?
Libertarianism is a Poison
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Libertarianism is a poison that’s crept into our society on the backs of rightwing billionaires like the late Libertarian David Koch, who ran for Vice President in 1980 on a platform of shutting down every government agency except the military, courts, and police.
Thom Hartmann
September 29, 2024
The ideology that made Mark Zuckerberg rich is now his politics — and it’s terrifying | Opinion (msn.com)
I find it interesting he does not suggest a system he believes to be better. Or in the famous works of Thomas Sowell:
- Compared to what?
- At what cost?
- What hard evidence do you have?
Communism and socialism are well known crimes against humanity (thank you MTHead). And it seems he overlooked the founding documents of the U.S. are a pretty good match for Libertarianism, and we did okay with that for several decades.
It appears to me that Hartmann sees libertarianism as a threat, and he has to lie and distort the facts about it to poison the discussion. This must be so his preferred political structure does not have to compete with the ideas of libertarians.
Changes to, Perhaps, Prevent a Stolen Election
Via email from a friend and reader who shall remain nameless:
I’ve volunteered to be a poll worker out here in Georgia. I did the primaries, and just finished training for the general election coming up.
For the Primaries, it was all about how to follow the process, how the machines worked and how to troubleshoot them, and what the laws were around voting and how my county interpreted those laws.
This year, the training included visits from two law enforcement agencies with training on active shooter response and other unpleasantness. There is more discussion this year about mob violence (which includes mass ‘victim’ protests), and even the occasional entitled soccer mom ‘Karen’, who thinks election laws can be broken for her convenience and will scream “Disenfranchisement!” if we don’t break the law for her. We’re not allowed to be armed, but my county will station an under-cover officer who is armed at each poling place.
Even money has Stacy Abrams creating a scene in which her supporters create a huge disturbance at a polling location in order to get a poll worker to yell at them or tell them to leave. Then we’ll see a video clip of a nice ‘family of color’ going to vote, spliced to the angry poll worker yelling at them to leave. Personally, I think it’s more than even money this will happen. The state elections board made a big deal about this in their training.
Also interesting is that a new law was passed in Georgia requiring the ballots to be hand-counted before leaving the polling place! When I heard about this, I was thrilled! I’d love to get a hand count of the human-readable names on a ballot and compare that with the tally garnered from the barcode printed on those ballots. But alas, that is not how it’s going to work. The way the law is being interpreted is that the ‘number of ballots cast’ will be counted and compared against the scanned count of ‘ballots cast’ to make sure they match.
Ugh. We did that on our own initiative after the primaries just as a due diligence check to make sure that the number of registered voters checking in matched ballots printed matched ballots recorded. We had a solid paper trail and multiple witness signatures for any discrepancy (printer ruined one ballot that needed to be re-printed. We kept the ruined ballot, voided it, and documented the occurrence. Anyone with a discrepancy with a voter registration was given a provisional ballot, and the county will deep-dive into that voter’s legal registration status before counting or tossing the vote. This part we do very well indeed.
It’s the bloody barcodes, and the fact that I don’t know what they tell the counter! I’d be happy to count all the ballots for A and for B manually, and then check that against the report from the counting machine. We post the results from the counting machine at each voting location on the door of the poling location after the polls close. Immediately transparent. But without an audit of the counting machines, I don’t trust them. They’ve been wrong before.
2024 USPSA Handgun Nations, 1st Place
From the notes to the video:
Took home the Single Stack National Champion title at the 2024 USPSA Handgun Nationals.
Less than 2% separating Dave Sevigny and myself for the title in the end. Was one hell of a race the whole weekend.
Pistol used was a Rafferty custom guns single stack 1911 in 40 Smith & Wesson.
John is my son-in-law. Daughter Xenia told me about it two and a half weeks ago. But I just now got around to looking for the video.
Congratulations John! That is awesome!
The rain on day two must have been really miserable. I have shot a high-level match in terrible rain conditions, but I was well prepared and, it being a steel challenge match, I didn’t need to move from target to target. My heavy waterproof boots were not an issue. John appears to have shot the second day of the match in soaking wet feet.
The First Amendment is Blocking Consensus
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The dislike of and anguish over social media is just growing and growing. It is part of our problem, particularly in democracies, in terms of building consensus around any issue.
It’s really hard to govern today. The referees we used to have to determine what is a fact and what isn’t a fact have kind of been eviscerated, to a certain degree. And people go and self-select where they go for their news, for their information. And then you get into a vicious cycle.
So it’s really, really, hard, much harder to build consensus today than any time in the 45, 50 years I’ve been involved in this. You know there’s a lot of discussion now about how you curb those entities in order to guarantee that you’re going to have some accountability on facts, etc.
But look, if people only go to one source, and the source they go to is sick, and, you know, has an agenda, and they’re putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to be able to just, you know, hammer it out of existence.
So what we need is to win the ground, win the right to govern, by hopefully winning enough votes that you’re free to be able to implement change.
John Kerry
September 2024
John Kerry Says the First Amendment is Getting in the Way of Online Censorship (msn.com) and
Posted on X and
John Kerry: A Democrat win would allow us to ‘change’ the First Amendment to stop ‘disinformation’ (bizpacreview.com) and
John Kerry calls the First Amendment a ‘major block’ to stopping ‘disinformation’ | Fox News and
John Kerry Tells WEF: Our First Amendment Stands As A Major Block Against Hammering Disinformation Out Of Existence | Video | RealClearPolitics
"Our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to hammer [disinformation] out of existence. What we need is to win…the right to govern by hopefully winning enough votes that you’re free to be able to implement change."
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) September 29, 2024
No thanks.pic.twitter.com/SLGHOLVjCr
“Hammer it out of existence.” It should be no surprise that if your opposition is silenced, you can get “consensus”.
Spoken like a true totalitarian.
Prepare appropriately.
Your Question is Dangerous
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I completely disagree with the premise of the question.
The question that you’re are asking; it is also incredibly dangerous in the way that you are asking it, because American people are watching.
Karine Jean-Pierre
White House Press Secretary
September 18, 2024
Jean-Pierre scorched for ‘utterly heinous response’ defending Biden-Harris rhetoric calling Trump a ‘threat’ | Fox News
The question, you ask?
It’s been, only two days since someone, allegedly, tried to kill Donald Trump again. And you are here at the podium in the White House Briefing Room, calling him a threat. How many more assignation attempts on Donald Trump until the president, and the vice president, and you pick a different word, to describe Trump, other than threat?
If you question their violence inspiring rhetoric, they declare your speech is dangerous. Then, if you listen to the rest of her response, she doubles down on Trump being a threat.
This is what they think of you.
Doesn’t that tell you everything you need to know about their attitude toward the First Amendment?
Prepare appropriately.