I appreciate Katie’s lighter take on this, but seriously… I feel like this one is super serious and not enough people are talking about it or concerned.
When I first saw this news the other day I was FLOORED. How are there not unprecedented marches on Washington?? This seems like it merits a VERY strong reaction in opposition and this one has to come from the people. Notably those of us who have been largely silent in the middle. The fact this isn’t a great unifying cause for all Americans makes me physically ill.
Someone tell me if I’m overreacting.
Also, someone please explain how the right are labeled as “Nazis” when the left *checks notes* has - decided to employ federal police power to control information, launched full press campaigns via press and academia to control messaging and silence detractors, promotes forced medical interventions, openly and actively practices eugenics, wants to indoctrinate kids at the school age level, and, oh yeah, are increasingly anti semitic.
Just a few off the top of my head.
I don’t want to label people incorrectly without a biology degree, but I do have one in political science.
The names we casually call people today without any evidence are shocking. That the media embraces them and uses them so freely is gross. See: Elon Musk. He’s been called every pejorative du jour.
Yeah definitely used to it. If everyone is a (racist, NAZI, misogynist...) no one is. This has gone on my whole life. How do you think the name “Bork” became a verb?
Because normal Americans are busy working, living life and raising families (or moving towards that stage of life). However, one of the core tenets of the leftists' cult is "activism", so they are the protesters.
That largely describes me for the past decade or so. But I’m realizing that we can’t sit back and let the far right nutters be the only ones making themselves heard “on our behalf.” I don’t know how to do more. There has to be something productive that can be done that doesn’t require me personally running for office.
There is a great deal we can do and many are doing it. Pick a strong, smart GOP federal candidate who has a real chance to win, regardless of where he/she is and go to work for him/her from your home. If you have someone local who can win, better yet. You can phone call, send money from your home. This work is not easy but we are in a war. And of course, join with like-minded people so you have synergy and friendship. There is much more but please do NOT sit idly by. If you need some names just Google the candidates Trump endorses. Otherwise we will live in the woke tyranny the rest of our lives.
The blind allegiance to Trump is part of my problem with many right wing candidates. Sure, I liked some policies but there’s a better way of doing business and his hijacking of the Conservative party is no different than any other nutter on the left. Wake up! Blind allegiance with no room for nuance is literally rotting America from the inside out.
MAGC, it is not blind allegiance to recognize that there are very few leaders who can stand up to the left. "Blind allegiance" is a slogan. Look deeper and be aware of the sources from which you learn about Trump and those candidates he endorses. Go directly to the source every time, do not pay attention to the woke matrix that filters your news about everything. That will "blind" you to reality. Study Trump's decisions first and foremost.
Remember the woke matrix hates Bari Weiss and you for refusing to toe the part line.
When do people get it? He didn’t hijack the Conservatives. He joined them. No one ever gets all the things they want in DC, but I feel better knowing when that person or group has the nation’s best interest at heart, and when they don’t.
Right now I am emailing county and state representatives on matters that concern me and attend some local political gatherings in order to understand where I can join the grass root campaigning.
Start by volunteering with your local election administrator. All votes are cast locally. It is a great way to educate yourself about the process and about your local parties.
I am against all forms of censorship. The way you censor somebody is you don't listen to them or (gasp) you change the channel. And you certainly don't have a government censorship board.
According to the NYT, "Russia clamped down harder Friday on news and free speech than at any time in President Vladimir V. Putin’s 22 years in power, blocking access to Facebook and major foreign news outlets, and enacting a law to punish anyone spreading 'false information' about its Ukraine invasion with up to 15 years in prison."
The Russians and the Biden administration are going to do what the Russians have done over the last 100 years "punish anyone spreading 'false information'".
In NAZI Germany the BBC said, "The aim of propaganda and censorship was to brainwash people into obeying the Nazis and idolising (sic) Hitler.
It was achieved by ensuring only the ideas and values of the Nazis were heard and seen by the masses."
I wonder if Ms. Jankowicz will expose the Clinton misinformation campaign against Trump that he was somehow in collusion with the Russians and chide the mainstream press for running with this lie, I mean misinformation or the press spiking the Hunter Biden laptop story? Or will she just criticize stories that expose wrongdoing by the left?
I will bet money she will only identify stories as misinformation. that the show the left in a bad light. She is just another leftist panjandrum. She will join the ranks of other autocrats like, Joseph Goebbels and Stalin.
Why hasn't the press been all over this like flies on cow flop? We all know the answer to that. They are the unpaid propaganda arm of the left. Their mantra is "Never do harm to our Democrat pals (or masters)."
With a propaganda/censorship office, our country is entering dangerous waters. I wonder if the cognitively impaired Joe Biden even knows about the "Misinformation Office" and if he does know, does he understand what it is?
Here's a scary thought. Is the Office of Misinformation" monitoring this bulletin board and if so, will men in full length, black leather coats and black leather hats be kicking in our doors at three in the morning and hauling us off to prison to be interrogated?
I am being sarcastic and it might seem extreme but I never thought our government would have a censorship bureau run by a want-a-be thought tyrant.
Are there really people who did nothing but walk through the Capitol on Jan 6th (trespassing, a misdemeanor) in prison, and I emphasize did nothing but walk through? Truth or non-truth? Information or misinformation? Tactically used to promote a point of view, regardless of truth or non-truth? Not a big deal? I thought Katie was onto something when she talked about starting with education in school — don’t believe anything you see or hear on social media without fact checking several sources. While I have more faith in mainstream print media, also fact check them. Draw your own conclusions? Recommend fact checking this one, i could not find any source to verify that people who did nothing but walk through the Capitol on Jan 6 are in prison in solitary. My conclusion, most of the commenters on Common Sense would first believe, maybe then doubt, maybe then fact check. But, who has the time or inclination, then what? Where are we? Was Dr. K providing Information? Or misinformation? Truth or non-truth? Intentionally or unintentionally? Does it matter? I didn’t leave it up to Dr. K to decide for me, and I would suggest the same path for others.
Steve... real tough, true or not on any point. I find, what looks to be fact, the Judge releases those held, under the condition that , those held can not sue...smells. I conclude , many (Jan 6th) Did Nothing. Must compare , demonstration and city riots, hence No Harm, no court...you have me thinking, "exaggerated-comedy"...sad.
THANK YOU! People that ENTER the capital unlawfully, harm property, disrupt the vice president, and suggest hanging him are dangerous people. I really don't understand how people discount the events. I certainly don't discount what happened in my home town of Seattle with extremists on the LEFT. I watched 1/6 footage not seen on the news with my son and if it wasn't fake, I don't see how anyone can make light of any of it. I cried. It's some messed up actions. The president watched this on television amongst other odd behaviors leading up to the event. HOW IS that LEADING? Help me understand? Even if we believe he had nothing to do with the excited crowd that entered unlawfully, his reactions are surreal.
I think the public blowback has been strong, but not enough to affect the Biden administration's choices because it's assumed that we're all troglodites.
Meanwhile, they haven't done anything yet. Nothing that we can point to and take them to court over.
I fully expect there to be protests and lawsuits at some point. But for now it looks like they're playing the long game.
Agreed, they need to "do something" first. The way it seems to work, thought, is that the DGB will instruct private entities to censor. Twitter under Musk potentially presents a problem and that is where things might happen which cross the 1st Amendment. "Nice social media site you have there, it would be a shame if..."
We are living in different realities here in the US. So, I can answer you point by point but you won't care. You are in a new religion, these are some of your articles of faith.
1. In a free society having a federal government body called the Disinformation Governance Board is nuts, a dystopian nightmare birthed by the Biden admin. They have many levers of power to influence media entities and create a chilling effect (the mere creation of the DGB being one of them).
2. Vaccine Mandates yesterday = Double Plus Good! Do what we say to your body or no job. Restricted access to abortion / early life termination = my body, my choice
Choose one
3. Stop indoctrinating children in public schools with any ideology. Math, reading, writing, historical facts...this is not hard.
4. Anti-Semitic attacks in NYC are all well documented. Go to the NYPD "hate crimes" page. These are leftists. The left has cultivated casual anti-Semitism to a high degree, including by black supremacists. There are right wing anti-Semites too, less numerous.
1. If it were really some sinister plot, they wouldn't be TELLING people it exists. It would be clandestine, like the kinds of stuff the CIA does
2. If people had gotten the vaccine instead of politicizing it, we wouldn't even be HAVING these new variants popping up all over the place because there wouldn't be any hosts left for them. I'm glad my great grandparents weren't as obtuse as COVID-deniers ("I'll be damned if the government is going to stop me from getting polio!!!"). The people planting the doubts are all fully vaccinated themselves--what does that tell you?
3. This one I agree with--but it has to also include religion, which is the most widespread ideology of all.
4. I kind of agree. The far left and far right both have large anti-semitic movements but the far left gets more of a pass than the right and that's wrong.
I agree Scott. People were not forced to get a vaccine. We all have choices. My job is not a right. If I want to keep it, I have to comply with certain rules. Additionally, aborting a zygote is not the same as spewing a virus on others. Lots of mistakes were made, during the initial phases especially. But hey, we haven't experienced anything quite like Covid (it spread like wildfire) in a very long time. We weren't prepared on many levels!!! So YES, many things could have been better. They dropped the ball on PPE, for example. Democrats and Republicans are equally responsible for our PPE stores. We had a president that was recorded by Bob Woodward in January, pre Covid admitting he knew Covid was very dangerous, that it mostly hurt old/sick, but even young people with certain health conditions were vulnerable. He knew several things about the virus. He waited another month or so to alert us. THEN, he didn't act like a leader during a crisis. What a circus and now we have another circus on our hands. I must agree that it was and still is politized. We aren't paying attention and/or being honest with ourselves if we don't recognize both sides to this. Anyone that didn't notice how Trump politized this and his poor response from the get go, is not paying attention. Of course the Democrats followed suit with the media freak show.
What is the source of this info? All the sources I see are showing that the unvaccinated are at least 4x more likely to be hospitalized and about 8x more likely to die.
This is an example of the binary—either/or—thinking of children.
Vaccines, medicines ... the processes of life in general are not either/or, but exist across a large range of strength. Vaccines, medicines, these things only add to strengths or immunity which already exists in our bodies. There's some untold millions of cellular chemical processes which are occurring in our bodies at any one time. Vaccines and medicines can help our body to fight disease, but they can only provide boosting to what already exists, they don't create something from nothing. At any one time, 100% of the population is not A++ healthy. People exist with all manner of health conditions, predilections, diseases, or what-ever weaknesses going on in their bodies. Some of us of course are very healthy most all of the time, others less so, all the way down to some people are barely hanging on through the entirety of their lives ... which may unfortunately be quite short compared to others. For these people, vaccines may do quite a bit, but still not enough to prevent their succumbing to the disease. But for all of us, it improves our odds of surviving, and that's what matters.
I know ideas own you rather than the other way around but to answer the first couple questions:
When the current regime labels parents "domestic terrorists" because they don’t want to continue having their daughters raped by "trans" women in bathrooms. The regime them directs the DHS, FBI and the DOJ treat them and monitor them as such,this is using federal powers (like the FBI) to silence opposition and control information.
When the current regime works with social media platforms to ban "problematic information" which goes against the Politically Correct (as in Mao’s idea of PC), this is the regime silencing detractors.
And also, anti-semitism is almost exclusively on the left now.
Steven N, if a parent is doing this: (a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.) They are a terrorist. It’s only in your imagination that you think the authorities are trying to silence opposition and control information, just like your imagined: “…daughters raped by "trans" women in bathrooms.” It never happened; the problem is that you take anything that meets your narrative at face value, never checking its validity!
Are you telling me the feds tell the social media platforms what to do? Where is your proof?
The ADL report doesn’t reflect; that “…anti-semitism is almost exclusively on the left now.” I doubt you educate yourself because it doesn’t fit your narrative. But nothing ventured, nothing gained.
You are a fool. A 14 year old girl was in fact sexually assaulted by a biological male who identified as trans. The incident happened in a girl's restroom. This is the Loudon County incident. The Loudon County school administration disavowed the young girl's claim (as you are now) and did nothing. The young man subsequently assaulted another young girl. He was then charged with both incidents and entered a plea to both. The first young girl's father was treated atrociously by the Loudon County school board when he tried to raise the issue. He was attacked by security. He did not use unlawful violence or intimidation. He had no political motive. You should be ashamed of yourself lecturing others about their failure to verify.
Linne, this is what Steven N said; “…having their daughters raped by "trans" women in bathrooms.” Read what Reason has to say about it, and then ask yourself who the fool is?
“But it does mean that conservatives shouldn't hold up the Loudoun County sexual assault as a cautionary tale about the supposed dangers of letting trans students use women's bathrooms. If anything, it's a cautionary tale about credulously assuming the worst when it would be maximally politically convenient to do so.”
BS. I stand by my comment. I think for myself so do not need your link. I have done my research on the topic. Your lack of empathy for the young girls and the first girl's father speaks volumes. BTW my comment has nothing to do with trans people, it has to do with people who game the system the way the offender did and people too blinded by their idealogy to recognize the potential for abuse.
"Steven N, if a parent is doing this: (a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.)"
You are lying for the regime. Period.
You are possessed by ideologies and don't have ideas yourself.
You know it happened in Loudon County (among other places) and you are lying is saying "it never happened".
We have the police reports.
School board members, equally possessed by ideologies like yourself, knowingly put young girls at risk to support a political agenda.
As for anti-semitism. Just look to the squad and most progressives unwavering support for Palatine and the destruction of Isreal. The ADL doesn't can't even define racism (because they shifted their definition so the Nazi's were not racist... by their definition... they came back and said we might need to rethink that...) anymore and are just a joke.
Steven, you’re making all sorts of accusations without knowing what you’re talking about!
“But it does mean that conservatives shouldn't hold up the Loudoun County sexual assault as a cautionary tale about the supposed dangers of letting trans students use women's bathrooms. If anything, it's a cautionary tale about credulously assuming the worst when it would be maximally politically convenient to do so.”
But you said stuff like that NEVER happened. It does. Look at the rash of rapes and pregnancies in women’s prison in both the UK and California. Women raped by other male inmates claiming to be women.
BTW: the Louden County assailant was a multiple offender and was protected by a radical left school board. That was the primary focus of the backlash.
The trans rape never happened? It happened twice with the same guy when they hushed it up and moved him to another school. Did you miss the GOP wipe out in VA elections as a result?
Imagine an alternate reality where Trump created the Disinformation Governance Board. How would your very visceral reaction to at least the first part of my post change?
That… right there… that’s the reason this should be an unequivocally bi-partisan issue that should be pushed back on with fervor. I’ve certainly heard of the first amendment and it is the exact reason that this board should have never even been a consideration in the mind of any American, much less its President.
The narrative is convenient for you, for now. Have you learned nothing in the past two years about how these things go? Do you actually read this stack or listen to Bari’s pods?
I know You're speaking in jest. But You really ARE a dummy. Because people HAVE explained it very carefully, and You refuse to see the nose in front-a Your FACE. Stupe.
Well, You're right. It remains to be seen. What they *say* they're gonna do may be different than what they do. I would just note that the woman heading the thing probably would-a shut down the Hunter laptop investigation for good.
As far as not seeing the nose in front of Your face, that was a generality. Not particularly in response to this particular thread.
"anti-Semitism has indeed increased on the far right" let's apply some common logic to this idea to find whether it seems correct or not.
You supposition is TFR (The Far Right) is anti-Semitic. TFR supports Trump -> Trump's daughter, son-in law and grand-children are Jewish ... or Semitic. Trump has not disowned either his daughter, son inlaw, nor grand children. Trump has done a lot of favors for Israel, so much so, that in Israel, government buildings are named after Trump.
Does TFR call for boycott and divestment of Israel? No, that comes from the left.
I think there's a pretty big disconnect in the logic of your statement that TFR is anti-Semitic.
Is the ADL partisan or biased? In the old days, the ACLU would stand to defend the civil liberties of even NAZIs ... because defending the civil liberties of someone you don't like, or disagree with is the sign of true dedication to the cause of civil liberties ... true character. Now-a-days the ACLU is just a run of the mill progressive organization ... progressing to the defeat of enlightened capitalism, liberty ... classic liberalism that is.
Michael, there’s still defending the civil liberties of people most Americans don’t like!
filed a brief in Michigan supporting anti-Semitic protesters picketing in front of a synagogue on the Sabbath;
filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court with the conservative Americans for Prosperity Foundation and the Institute for Justice in support of a case challenging a free speech zone by an evangelical Christian, represented by Alliance Defending Freedom;
filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court supporting a Catholic school’s religious right to discriminate in the hiring and firing of a teacher with significant religious responsibilities;
sent a letter on behalf of a Trump supporter in Georgia who was being criminally prosecuted for flying a flag on his own property that said, “Trump 2020: Fuck Your Feelings.” Charges were dropped after the prosecutor received our letter;
Willie, the definition of Truth: the body of real things, events, and facts. I have a small challenge for you, pick any three, and provide proof, and I think the odds are overwhelming that I will never hear from you!
Right - on the subject of nursing homes - Richard Levine was a Pediatrician who became secretary of health in PA - and after he took his own mother out of a nursing home, put her in a nice hotel, and allowed other nursing home patients to die - our administration elevated him to US Assistant Health Secretary and then honored him as the "First Female Four Star Admiral". Ewww that he was a pediatrican, too. I know he has given "gender health" talks at Duke University. You cannot make this stuff up. The inmates are running the asylum. And, the republicans have not done anything much to stop it, by and large.
That shocks me that you might be right. You are right that it is easier to turn away instead of looking right at things. It wasn't a hundred percent snark when I said that truth is strong medicine; even for myself sometimes. I really just figured it was arrogance and pride that kept the governors from admitting they were wrong and changing course. You know the conventional wisdom that attributing things like that to incompetence instead of malice is erring on the side of giving the benefit of the doubt. I'm beginning to think the benefit of the doubt is about used up though.
Marek, your comment; can't be backed up with proof; “…BLM, who committed anti-Semitic hate crimes Bari Weiss reported on, and the ADL and liberal media covered up.” Don’t tell me to get my facts straight; if you can give me the facts you haven’t, you’re all talk and no action. If you can’t prove it, it’s all hot air!
Marek, I pity your relatives, friends, and your employer. You have lost contact with reality, and it looks like you’re so far down the rabbit hole you’ll be lost forever!
Just go ahead and copy it. Let people know it came from the comments of Bari’s substack and promote her pod while you’re at it. I’m curious what the responses will be.
You are over reacting, because when Trump is re-elected in 2024 he is going to put the Ministry of Truth into over drive. And watching the nitwits who thought this would be a good idea react is going to have entertainment value worth trillions.
If he does get elected again (Lord, help us) anything less than abolishing the entire thing during his first minute in office is an insufficient response. This board is catastrophic no matter who is in charge.
Just like Elon buying Twitter. I happen to agree with his position on things. But I’m still not thrilled that any random billionaire can control speech this much.
A few years ago, I listened to Jordan Peterson saying that if we ever implemented the speech police, it would be the people you would least want to have doing the policing. I didn't really believe him; but then I hadn't been the one studying the Nazis and other totalitarian regimes. Silly me!
ministry of truth , ave these people ever read a book ? BESIDES goebels and OTHER Nazis . I saw this coming 30 years ago , sad what has happened to the US
The fact that they are openly doing things like this convinces me that they are SURE that they will never lose power again. What's hard to determine that this point is whether that's extremely wishful thinking on their part or whether they actually have systems in place to make sure they always "win" elections from now on.
I just finished reading your entire essay word for word, and you completely glossed over the main issue, which is that Dick Van Dyke no longer has the worst Mary Poppins British accent.
News like these make me question am I dreaming, this cannot be reality.
As I was growing up in 1990 in Eastern Europe, USA was a shiny beacon among dark clouds, its institutions were something to be admired. I looked up at Congress, Supreme Court, President with admiration, wanted our institutors back home be like this. Now some two decades later, I want anything but that institutions back home are like those in US. Congress is literal representation of corruption (insider trading, personal enrichment while US people suffer). Presidency was discredited by Clinton, then by Bush and his lies. Obama and Trump dint helped. And now Biden is literary burying any notion of credibility that the office of president had.
We used to make fun that in China there was propaganda ministry, now there will be one in USA. Such sad day for democracy.
Sometimes I think, that if US was to be couped by some external enemy, that they would we more merciful that what is currently going on. It is like someone is on purpose trying to destroy US from within.
PS. I forgot to mention Supreme Court, that was one of institutions I admired the most, but after what happed this week, sad sad state of affairs, it is like last bastion of US greatness has started to crumbed to petty party politics.
Bravo, Raziel, nicely put. I agree that everything that has been happening in our country can only be attributed to an external actor(s) destroying it from within using corrupt politicians and susceptible ( liberally-educated, with low self esteem yet inflated sense of entitlement) segments of the population, regardless of their race or ethnic origin.
It is a shame that the majority of reasonable Americans are too comfortable and afraid to speak up. There is no platform to represent them. The current political parties speak for the noisy fringes, not for all of us in the middle. That's why they are easy to be bought and manipulated. Even SCOTUS is about to hit the rock bottom.
The question is how do we get out of this death spiral without engaging in violence...
When we were studying the US System in eighth-grade civics class, I remember thinking how the horrendous things which took place in the Soviet and Chinese systems could never happen here. Age and experience have taught me otherwise. With lunatics like the Disinformation Czarina spinning her performance art online for the world to see and a senile Titular Presidents setting new records for insanity every day, Lewis Carroll and Franz Kafka must be spinning in their graves like tops. They never intended their fiction to become fact.
Because parts of that system are still operative, though, it is still possible to reverse this descent into madness. I see that J.D. Vance won the Ohio Republican primary last night, having come to Jesus about the America First agenda and its founder. Others are doing the same.
The liars and cheaters know they are in deep kimchi come November and they know they cannot prevail - or even keep their jobs - unless they cheat once again. Voting integrity, not Ukraine, not gender identity, not Supreme Court leaks must be our focus now because if we fail in that, none of the rest matters.
The Supreme Court leak was obviously engineered to give the Left their "Big Issue" going into the midterms. Despite the fact that the elimination of Roe V. Wade changes nothing in blue states (which already have legal abortions enshrined by law), we'll be hearing lies about this issue at top volume from now until November in attempt to convince women that the children they don't have are more important than the children they already have.
I'm still not sure about that. It would make MUCH more sense to wait for the decision to be released because people have very short memories. Stirring them up NOW about abortion does less to help with the midterms than the same (or similar) decision coming closer in time to the midterms.
I'm not sure it matters when the leak occurred. This issue is pure dynamite for the Left. I expect BLM-style mass protests to start up as the weather warms.
Which, come to think of it, might just provoke a useful backlash by November.
Perhaps, but then again, the party may have directed the leak NOW because there's an awful boatload of bad news about to come out about the economy, the ukraine war, hunter's laptop, immigration...
Yeah the other equally plausible theory is that one of the judges was getting cold feet about overturning Roe, so a conservative leaked it to lock them into their commitment to overturn.
I do not find that equally plausible. The leak does not lock anyone into anything. A Justice who was in the process of changing his mind on the subject could win the love (or at least the respect) of the Left by openly choosing to go ahead and dissent, which would cancel the decision altogether.
I have a cynical fear that the Leftist leaker is hoping that some crazed partisan will assassinate at least one of the conservative Justices, making way for the confirmation of a Leftist Justice before the midterms.
Choosing to dissent at this point would look like cowering to the mob, so to show they cannot be intimidated, the justices more or less have to stay the course and uphold their votes to overturn.
Yes and no; the idiots who leaked it surely knew that the decision was to be published before November. This was the irrational act of a deranged liberal.
I received text messages yesterday from two LA City Council candidates vowing to "preserve a women's right to choose." As if they could do anything about that or would even need to in a state like California where abortion rights are championed and embraced with religious fervor. This leak was perfectly designed for opportunists who want to grasp at political red herrings.
Both parties only seem to care about bodily autonomy when it suits them. I don't love this turn of events, but it's not enough to make me vote Democrat after they've spent the last five years trying to replicate the Chinese Cultural Revolution here.
For sure, no. But I kind of wanted to vote Republican because they got the Vax mandates shot down and because I care about 2A. I default to Libertarian, but sadly, third parties aren't really viable here.
I also default libertarian, and I protest-voted for the Libertarian POTUS candidate for years, until the Democrats lost their minds. I used to vote judiciously to keep my state purple, but now I wouldn't vote for a Democrat for dogcatcher (they'd probably either refuse to actually catch dogs because "it's not fair" or else slaughter everyone's pets in the name of PETA--you could never be which).
That's what was a little funny about 2020. I had literally never voted for a Republican in a presidential election before then, and I don't think I'm the only one. The dems were so baffled that Trump made gains after their concentrated campaign to get rid of him. It didn't seem to occur that he could simply be perceived as a lesser evil.
I forget who said this, but it is SO true: forget parties and labels--vote for the outcomes or policies you want to see happen. If more voters adopted this principle, we could finally start down a better path as a country.
I am VERY biased, but my experience with friends is that people who favor Trump do so because of his policies and DESPITE his personality. Friends who disfavor him do so BECAUSE of his personality and DESPITE his policies. Seems to me they need to figure out which side their bread is buttered-on.
Yes, excellent example, and my experience as well. If I owned a company, and I had a choice of hiring Steve Jobs or that spineless clown running Disney, the choice would be obvious. Results are what I would be buying. American voters need to learn that.
Well said. Interestingly, Chomsky praised Trump's position on Ukraine a few days ago. My personal take is that if Trump were president, we wouldn't even be having this discussion; the invasion would have never happened. Failing that, George Washington hisownself said it in his farewell address: stay the hell out of Europe's wars.
You play to your strengths and your opponent's weakness. We saw in WWII what America's manufacturing sector could do; nearly every historian believes that America's assembly-line prowess vis à vis socialist Germany's manufacturing incompetence won the war. Finished a great YouTube video on that last night.
If we stop attacking our manufacturing base, stop sending American jobs overseas because of low labor costs and start MAKING THINGS again, we will leave China, Russia, all the rest in the dust, falling further behind every day. That's how you win.
Those are excellent points. I deliberately read some of that stuff to get different takes on the Ukrainian situation, but it also needs a critical eye--good reminder.
But, at least in the case of Biden, the corruption is right out there for all to see. Heck, his own kid outed him. And the evidence of his payoffs by China is irrefutable. And still most of pretend that this corrupt, senile imbecile is fit to be our President.
Having come from J.D. Vance's part of the country, I was a bit put off by his "Hillbilly Elegy." Not that most of it wasn't true; I felt he had an agenda and was willing to use his family and friends to further it along. He was an avowed Never-Trumper in 2016 also. I'm still a little wary of him - just like I am of Joe Manchin, - who is from my home state and whom I've met - but Vance seems willing to admit mistakes and seems to be a real America First guy. Trump accepted Vance's apology and endorsed him; if that's good enough for the two of them, I suppose it's good enough for me. We have bigger fish to fry than to ruminate over past petty grievances.
I've been a woman on the internet since 1996, and yet somehow I've managed to avoid all these terrible woes.
Perhaps coincidentally (perhaps not) the only #metoo experience I've ever had was when a hotel porter in an Italian hotel tried to grope me in an elevator. I was barely 14, but I managed to protect myself until the elevator doors opened.
Still, I've wondered, since #metoo, if any of my fellow girl scouts in our group was less fortunate than I was.
I believed (falsely) throughout my youth that I must be horribly ugly, since I wasn't getting hit on like all the other girls were. After a lifetime of experience, I've come to the conclusion that, without even really being aware of it, I give off Don't-You-Even-Go-There vibes. Even my husband of 35 years didn't try anything with me when we were dating that I hadn't greenlighted first.
My first email account was MS-DOS in what, 1994? I paid for Compuserve. So yeah, right there with you.
I had a very unconventional childhood so I knew early on how to take care of myself but didn’t know until university that I exude that aura of don’t fuck with me. Several professors and many fellow students made mention of it.
I don’t need that twit Jankowitz or however her name is spelled for anything whatsoever.
I’m tempted to create a Twitter account for the express purpose of telling her and that scum bucket Mayorkas that I will say what I like where I like when I like. They don’t like it? Come and get me.
I am done with the these people trying to justify their power grabs using me as an excuse.
Right on. It’s also a babyish way to hurl back at legitimate criticism like it’s an ad hominem attack. “You’re just a misogynist.” I’m tired of that junk. Grow up. I don’t need her to foster weakness in me.
Of course Jankowicz is a comedic caricature. A loon living in her fantasy world of woke lies and fables, in an apartment filled with cats and a fridge filled with wine and yogurt. Which would be perfectly fine, unless and until she is given power. Then it all turns malevolent and dark. And not the least bit funny.
Aside from our loved ones, our most precious gift in life is liberty. Jankowicz with power is a clear and present danger to that. As are that vile troll Mayorkas and his boss, the senile imbecile who embarrasses our nation on a daily basis. People who threaten our most precious liberties are not our "political opponents." They are our mortal enemies. You mistake that existential difference at your peril.
I agree with this comment. It may not be as satirical as some comments, but I believe in it's truth. Happy Common Sense exists, but unfortunately, the people who need to be "deprogrammed" from the propaganda of the Leftist lies, will probably never read Common Sense or allow themselves to actually be exposed to any information that disagrees with their (hateful, facist, dangerous and bigoted) beliefs. Maybe it is true, "you can't fix stupid". But I hope it is not too late. Thanks Bari. First thing I read every morning to help align myself with reality. Maybe "1984" should have been banned years ago, so this new generation wouldn't find it's vision of the world so aspirational!
If Jankowitz is serious about protecting women online, she can start by removing all Met Galla...I mean Hunger Games...photos from my social media feed (shudder). Also stop people from posting their Wordle scores. It’s upsetting to those who get it in six.
Other than that, I can’t believe this shit is happening. I think Raziel is right. We’re being destroyed from the inside.
The Disinformation Governance Board, or the Ministry of Truth, as critics dubbed it, has an ambitious mission: to stop the spread of misinformation. That sounds nice. Except, what one woman calls “misinformation” another might just call “information.”
While I enjoyed the entire article, the above quote was the perfect summary of what's so clearly wrong about the concept.
In a way, Herzog has hit on the perfect way to attack this new abomination: ridicule!
In terms of stopping this, there is no way appeals to logic and reason will work with these sociopaths. However, all thinking people can MOCK this tragedy at every turn. NEVER accept what they say! Reject it, make fun of it, make it so that anyone who listens to them is made to feel like a fool. Above all, know that you must FIGHT BACK, and humor to these assholes is like water to the Wicked Witch of the West. FIGHT!
Comedians will save us by challenging people of all stripes to think. Will Smith normalized attacking a comedian onstage, and Dave Chappelle was the first victim of this new trend.
Pretty interesting piece and definitely scary. I hope they take an absolute drubbing at the polls in November.
Also just listened to your latest Honestly podcast with Andrew Sullivan. While overall I liked it I felt compelled to reply here about it just to say that I thought what he said about Chris Rufo was a terrible smear. Discussing his work exposing teachers saying/doing troubling things pertaining to gender and trans ideology, Andrew said that Chris is basically accusing them all of trying to rape children. Which I thought was an obscene thing to say; Chris is just trying to expose some of the troubling behavior in public schools, I highly doubt he'd agree with such a thing. It wasn't even clear what Andrew's real point was, if you wanted to say that well he was just being hyperbolic.
Gynocentric Fascism- Creating and leveraging massive state bureaucracies to ostensibly stop "toxic masculinity" and protect "pure femininity". From HRC's "It takes an overreaching state" to raise proper children to todays "it takes an entire bureaucracy" to protect childless cat moms. The cards are absolutely stacked against men in this age. Add Roe V Wade to the mix and you'll see the most gender polarized elections in history coming up.
'Elon Musk and Babylon Bee memes satirizing post-modern gender hysteria will be categorized as "malign creativity". Likewise any jokes about Jankowicz's cabaret skills, all coded attacks on women at large, will be properly relegated to the category of misogynistic wrong-think. The disinformation board will extirpate...'
The trans trend and nullification of sex is part of the same statist engineering project IMO. NeoMarxism in academia has emerged and infected other institutions of power. The family and traditional gender roles are threats to the hegemony of ideas posited by the woke.
not sure the RvW decision will have any impact on the election (aside from huge fundraising). The folks that are wound up are already part of the base (both sides), and the ones in the middle might be more concerned about inflation, Ukraine, myriad of other issues where abortion is about eleventy on the list.
Correct but the disparity in vote enthusiasm up until now has been huge and favoring the GOP on almost all issues. Traditionally voter enthusiasm is a decent metric anticipating turnout. Unmarried, college educated women under 30 has historically been a very low turnout group. This ruling *may* be enough to drive them to the polls to actually vote. On the other hand the Dems may overplay their hysteria and feed into the larger disgust the nation feels towards anti-humanist, anti-natalist misanthopes on the left. It won't be enough to tilt the election compared to other issues but it could drive larger war of the sexes antagonism... time will tell.
Almost all of the internet censorship thus far has been done on behalf of the Democrat party and the government either as a campaign finance violation or a First Amendment violation.
I feel like making it all official, as opposed to an unspoken agreement, with this new government board could open them up to legal action.
And as I’m typing this Chris Coons is on CNBC talking about regulating social media. Chris Coons is held up as a moderate Democrat and he is in fact a gigantic extreme piece of shit fascist who has previously proposed outlawing ‘climate denial’.
(‘climate denial’ will of course include people like me who simply deny that functionless cocksuckers like Chris Coons can fix the climate)
Just to clarify, Harris did sleep her way to the top. “Girls” if you want a better role model pick ACB, a super mother and Supreme Court justice!! Yes you can have it all!!!
I hope this new ministry can finally solve the overwhelming problem of the nefarious men at the BABYLON BEE, a constant source of “misinformation “😎
A year or so ago, a planeload of unaccompanied minors landed at the Des Moines Airport in the middle of the night. Many of them were loaded into busses after arrival. All this was caught on security video, so there was no question about WHAT happened, only about who and why.
ICE denied that they had anything to do with flight...until Iowa law enforcement began investigating the incident as a probable case of child sex trafficking. Suddenly ICE admitted that they had sent illegal immigrant minor children to be delivered to "safe" locations, theoretically the children's relatives.
I appreciate Katie’s lighter take on this, but seriously… I feel like this one is super serious and not enough people are talking about it or concerned.
When I first saw this news the other day I was FLOORED. How are there not unprecedented marches on Washington?? This seems like it merits a VERY strong reaction in opposition and this one has to come from the people. Notably those of us who have been largely silent in the middle. The fact this isn’t a great unifying cause for all Americans makes me physically ill.
Someone tell me if I’m overreacting.
Also, someone please explain how the right are labeled as “Nazis” when the left *checks notes* has - decided to employ federal police power to control information, launched full press campaigns via press and academia to control messaging and silence detractors, promotes forced medical interventions, openly and actively practices eugenics, wants to indoctrinate kids at the school age level, and, oh yeah, are increasingly anti semitic.
Just a few off the top of my head.
I don’t want to label people incorrectly without a biology degree, but I do have one in political science.
The names we casually call people today without any evidence are shocking. That the media embraces them and uses them so freely is gross. See: Elon Musk. He’s been called every pejorative du jour.
Yeah definitely used to it. If everyone is a (racist, NAZI, misogynist...) no one is. This has gone on my whole life. How do you think the name “Bork” became a verb?
Oh, the horrors of it all, quite possibly the richest man in the world is being called names, even if he enjoys name calling himself!
just...seems more to do with the goop calling the names
Because normal Americans are busy working, living life and raising families (or moving towards that stage of life). However, one of the core tenets of the leftists' cult is "activism", so they are the protesters.
That largely describes me for the past decade or so. But I’m realizing that we can’t sit back and let the far right nutters be the only ones making themselves heard “on our behalf.” I don’t know how to do more. There has to be something productive that can be done that doesn’t require me personally running for office.
There is a great deal we can do and many are doing it. Pick a strong, smart GOP federal candidate who has a real chance to win, regardless of where he/she is and go to work for him/her from your home. If you have someone local who can win, better yet. You can phone call, send money from your home. This work is not easy but we are in a war. And of course, join with like-minded people so you have synergy and friendship. There is much more but please do NOT sit idly by. If you need some names just Google the candidates Trump endorses. Otherwise we will live in the woke tyranny the rest of our lives.
The blind allegiance to Trump is part of my problem with many right wing candidates. Sure, I liked some policies but there’s a better way of doing business and his hijacking of the Conservative party is no different than any other nutter on the left. Wake up! Blind allegiance with no room for nuance is literally rotting America from the inside out.
MAGC, it is not blind allegiance to recognize that there are very few leaders who can stand up to the left. "Blind allegiance" is a slogan. Look deeper and be aware of the sources from which you learn about Trump and those candidates he endorses. Go directly to the source every time, do not pay attention to the woke matrix that filters your news about everything. That will "blind" you to reality. Study Trump's decisions first and foremost.
Remember the woke matrix hates Bari Weiss and you for refusing to toe the part line.
Dennies...one roller coaster manner...lifting
When do people get it? He didn’t hijack the Conservatives. He joined them. No one ever gets all the things they want in DC, but I feel better knowing when that person or group has the nation’s best interest at heart, and when they don’t.
ut oh...vague, are you thinking others are of the same vantage...might?
Loved your reply!!!
Dennies...Mr. meliorate. nice meld.
I second this.
Me too. I wish I knew want to do other than talk to people about it all. And not comply.
Right now I am emailing county and state representatives on matters that concern me and attend some local political gatherings in order to understand where I can join the grass root campaigning.
Start by volunteering with your local election administrator. All votes are cast locally. It is a great way to educate yourself about the process and about your local parties.
MAGC...no more ice cream, paid sports not even your TV...off, done.
I am against all forms of censorship. The way you censor somebody is you don't listen to them or (gasp) you change the channel. And you certainly don't have a government censorship board.
According to the NYT, "Russia clamped down harder Friday on news and free speech than at any time in President Vladimir V. Putin’s 22 years in power, blocking access to Facebook and major foreign news outlets, and enacting a law to punish anyone spreading 'false information' about its Ukraine invasion with up to 15 years in prison."
The Russians and the Biden administration are going to do what the Russians have done over the last 100 years "punish anyone spreading 'false information'".
In NAZI Germany the BBC said, "The aim of propaganda and censorship was to brainwash people into obeying the Nazis and idolising (sic) Hitler.
It was achieved by ensuring only the ideas and values of the Nazis were heard and seen by the masses."
I wonder if Ms. Jankowicz will expose the Clinton misinformation campaign against Trump that he was somehow in collusion with the Russians and chide the mainstream press for running with this lie, I mean misinformation or the press spiking the Hunter Biden laptop story? Or will she just criticize stories that expose wrongdoing by the left?
I will bet money she will only identify stories as misinformation. that the show the left in a bad light. She is just another leftist panjandrum. She will join the ranks of other autocrats like, Joseph Goebbels and Stalin.
Why hasn't the press been all over this like flies on cow flop? We all know the answer to that. They are the unpaid propaganda arm of the left. Their mantra is "Never do harm to our Democrat pals (or masters)."
With a propaganda/censorship office, our country is entering dangerous waters. I wonder if the cognitively impaired Joe Biden even knows about the "Misinformation Office" and if he does know, does he understand what it is?
Here's a scary thought. Is the Office of Misinformation" monitoring this bulletin board and if so, will men in full length, black leather coats and black leather hats be kicking in our doors at three in the morning and hauling us off to prison to be interrogated?
I am being sarcastic and it might seem extreme but I never thought our government would have a censorship bureau run by a want-a-be thought tyrant.
Sadly, I expect your sarcasm will turn out to be true. There are still people who did nothing but walk through the Capitol in prison, most in solitary. Draw your own conclusions. (See https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/people-detained-for-jan-6-us-capitol-riot-held-in-solitary-confinement/ and https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/aclu-capitol-rioters-in-solitary-confinement. Although they have gone from 500 held in the summer of 2021 (six months after January 6) they still are holding around 50. See if you can find how many were held for six months uncharged, much less charged and prosecuted for the dozens of damaging riots/murders/looting sponsored by BLM and Antifa in the summer. The discrepancy is striking.)
Are there really people who did nothing but walk through the Capitol on Jan 6th (trespassing, a misdemeanor) in prison, and I emphasize did nothing but walk through? Truth or non-truth? Information or misinformation? Tactically used to promote a point of view, regardless of truth or non-truth? Not a big deal? I thought Katie was onto something when she talked about starting with education in school — don’t believe anything you see or hear on social media without fact checking several sources. While I have more faith in mainstream print media, also fact check them. Draw your own conclusions? Recommend fact checking this one, i could not find any source to verify that people who did nothing but walk through the Capitol on Jan 6 are in prison in solitary. My conclusion, most of the commenters on Common Sense would first believe, maybe then doubt, maybe then fact check. But, who has the time or inclination, then what? Where are we? Was Dr. K providing Information? Or misinformation? Truth or non-truth? Intentionally or unintentionally? Does it matter? I didn’t leave it up to Dr. K to decide for me, and I would suggest the same path for others.
Steve... real tough, true or not on any point. I find, what looks to be fact, the Judge releases those held, under the condition that , those held can not sue...smells. I conclude , many (Jan 6th) Did Nothing. Must compare , demonstration and city riots, hence No Harm, no court...you have me thinking, "exaggerated-comedy"...sad.
Yes. It’s true. Last month one finally made trial and court threw it out--the cop opened and held the door for him
THANK YOU! People that ENTER the capital unlawfully, harm property, disrupt the vice president, and suggest hanging him are dangerous people. I really don't understand how people discount the events. I certainly don't discount what happened in my home town of Seattle with extremists on the LEFT. I watched 1/6 footage not seen on the news with my son and if it wasn't fake, I don't see how anyone can make light of any of it. I cried. It's some messed up actions. The president watched this on television amongst other odd behaviors leading up to the event. HOW IS that LEADING? Help me understand? Even if we believe he had nothing to do with the excited crowd that entered unlawfully, his reactions are surreal.
Dr.K...thanks for the link
Keep their political opponents in jail on “trumped” up charges.
I think the public blowback has been strong, but not enough to affect the Biden administration's choices because it's assumed that we're all troglodites.
Meanwhile, they haven't done anything yet. Nothing that we can point to and take them to court over.
I fully expect there to be protests and lawsuits at some point. But for now it looks like they're playing the long game.
Agreed, they need to "do something" first. The way it seems to work, thought, is that the DGB will instruct private entities to censor. Twitter under Musk potentially presents a problem and that is where things might happen which cross the 1st Amendment. "Nice social media site you have there, it would be a shame if..."
The DGB may take some time first to study the "root cause" of disinformation.
The left will call literally anyone a Nazi, except actual, literal Nazis. (Paraphrasing Caitlin Johnstone.)
Scuba Cat, just for the hell of it, give me several examples where the left won’t call Nazis, Nazis!
Azov battalion. Actual sun wheel patches.
Is CNN far enough left for you?
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/29/europe/ukraine-azov-movement-far-right-intl-cmd/index.html
The idea seems to be that they are our Nazis, so they get a pass.
Amicus meus, inimicus inimici mei
Hypothetically, how do you suppose a guy wearing a sunwheel patch would be recieved on the streets of L.A.?
MAGC, how exactly could they use ‘federal police power to control information”? You have heard of the First Amendment, haven’t you?
Precisely how could the feds force Fox news, and Brigham Young University, into this messaging campaign to silence detractors?
Moving on to “forced medical intervention” the government has something to say about that: Amdt5.4.5.2.5.1 Right to Refuse Medical Treatment.
Do tell, how are the feds openly and actively practicing eugenics, and what race are they trying to improve?
Apparently, you think teaching children the truth is indoctrination when in fact, the children have been indoctrinated with lies for far too long!
Last but not least, anti-Semitism has indeed increased on the far right.
We are living in different realities here in the US. So, I can answer you point by point but you won't care. You are in a new religion, these are some of your articles of faith.
1. In a free society having a federal government body called the Disinformation Governance Board is nuts, a dystopian nightmare birthed by the Biden admin. They have many levers of power to influence media entities and create a chilling effect (the mere creation of the DGB being one of them).
2. Vaccine Mandates yesterday = Double Plus Good! Do what we say to your body or no job. Restricted access to abortion / early life termination = my body, my choice
Choose one
3. Stop indoctrinating children in public schools with any ideology. Math, reading, writing, historical facts...this is not hard.
4. Anti-Semitic attacks in NYC are all well documented. Go to the NYPD "hate crimes" page. These are leftists. The left has cultivated casual anti-Semitism to a high degree, including by black supremacists. There are right wing anti-Semites too, less numerous.
1. If it were really some sinister plot, they wouldn't be TELLING people it exists. It would be clandestine, like the kinds of stuff the CIA does
2. If people had gotten the vaccine instead of politicizing it, we wouldn't even be HAVING these new variants popping up all over the place because there wouldn't be any hosts left for them. I'm glad my great grandparents weren't as obtuse as COVID-deniers ("I'll be damned if the government is going to stop me from getting polio!!!"). The people planting the doubts are all fully vaccinated themselves--what does that tell you?
3. This one I agree with--but it has to also include religion, which is the most widespread ideology of all.
4. I kind of agree. The far left and far right both have large anti-semitic movements but the far left gets more of a pass than the right and that's wrong.
I agree Scott. People were not forced to get a vaccine. We all have choices. My job is not a right. If I want to keep it, I have to comply with certain rules. Additionally, aborting a zygote is not the same as spewing a virus on others. Lots of mistakes were made, during the initial phases especially. But hey, we haven't experienced anything quite like Covid (it spread like wildfire) in a very long time. We weren't prepared on many levels!!! So YES, many things could have been better. They dropped the ball on PPE, for example. Democrats and Republicans are equally responsible for our PPE stores. We had a president that was recorded by Bob Woodward in January, pre Covid admitting he knew Covid was very dangerous, that it mostly hurt old/sick, but even young people with certain health conditions were vulnerable. He knew several things about the virus. He waited another month or so to alert us. THEN, he didn't act like a leader during a crisis. What a circus and now we have another circus on our hands. I must agree that it was and still is politized. We aren't paying attention and/or being honest with ourselves if we don't recognize both sides to this. Anyone that didn't notice how Trump politized this and his poor response from the get go, is not paying attention. Of course the Democrats followed suit with the media freak show.
point 2 seems the vaccinated are the ones catching and spreading new variants the hospitals are full of fully vaccinated people or are you using
"new speak "
What is the source of this info? All the sources I see are showing that the unvaccinated are at least 4x more likely to be hospitalized and about 8x more likely to die.
https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-audit-finds-antisemitic-incidents-in-united-states-reached-all-time-high-in
This is an example of the binary—either/or—thinking of children.
Vaccines, medicines ... the processes of life in general are not either/or, but exist across a large range of strength. Vaccines, medicines, these things only add to strengths or immunity which already exists in our bodies. There's some untold millions of cellular chemical processes which are occurring in our bodies at any one time. Vaccines and medicines can help our body to fight disease, but they can only provide boosting to what already exists, they don't create something from nothing. At any one time, 100% of the population is not A++ healthy. People exist with all manner of health conditions, predilections, diseases, or what-ever weaknesses going on in their bodies. Some of us of course are very healthy most all of the time, others less so, all the way down to some people are barely hanging on through the entirety of their lives ... which may unfortunately be quite short compared to others. For these people, vaccines may do quite a bit, but still not enough to prevent their succumbing to the disease. But for all of us, it improves our odds of surviving, and that's what matters.
Marek, vaccines aren’t 100%; therefore, people can die after being vaccinated!
https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/how-long-will-coronavirus-vaccine-last
But they said it would give me eternal life! Those lying bastard scientists.
It doesn't make you immortal, Marek.
T Reid, items one through three are opinions with no proof! Item four may be true, but we were talking about the whole of the United States.
https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-audit-finds-antisemitic-incidents-in-united-states-reached-all-time-high-in
I know ideas own you rather than the other way around but to answer the first couple questions:
When the current regime labels parents "domestic terrorists" because they don’t want to continue having their daughters raped by "trans" women in bathrooms. The regime them directs the DHS, FBI and the DOJ treat them and monitor them as such,this is using federal powers (like the FBI) to silence opposition and control information.
When the current regime works with social media platforms to ban "problematic information" which goes against the Politically Correct (as in Mao’s idea of PC), this is the regime silencing detractors.
And also, anti-semitism is almost exclusively on the left now.
Steven N, if a parent is doing this: (a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.) They are a terrorist. It’s only in your imagination that you think the authorities are trying to silence opposition and control information, just like your imagined: “…daughters raped by "trans" women in bathrooms.” It never happened; the problem is that you take anything that meets your narrative at face value, never checking its validity!
Are you telling me the feds tell the social media platforms what to do? Where is your proof?
The ADL report doesn’t reflect; that “…anti-semitism is almost exclusively on the left now.” I doubt you educate yourself because it doesn’t fit your narrative. But nothing ventured, nothing gained.
https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-audit-finds-antisemitic-incidents-in-united-states-reached-all-time-high-in
You are a fool. A 14 year old girl was in fact sexually assaulted by a biological male who identified as trans. The incident happened in a girl's restroom. This is the Loudon County incident. The Loudon County school administration disavowed the young girl's claim (as you are now) and did nothing. The young man subsequently assaulted another young girl. He was then charged with both incidents and entered a plea to both. The first young girl's father was treated atrociously by the Loudon County school board when he tried to raise the issue. He was attacked by security. He did not use unlawful violence or intimidation. He had no political motive. You should be ashamed of yourself lecturing others about their failure to verify.
Linne, this is what Steven N said; “…having their daughters raped by "trans" women in bathrooms.” Read what Reason has to say about it, and then ask yourself who the fool is?
“But it does mean that conservatives shouldn't hold up the Loudoun County sexual assault as a cautionary tale about the supposed dangers of letting trans students use women's bathrooms. If anything, it's a cautionary tale about credulously assuming the worst when it would be maximally politically convenient to do so.”
https://reason.com/2021/11/01/conservatives-wrongly-portrayed-the-loudoun-county-sexual-assault-as-a-transgender-bathroom-issue/
BS. I stand by my comment. I think for myself so do not need your link. I have done my research on the topic. Your lack of empathy for the young girls and the first girl's father speaks volumes. BTW my comment has nothing to do with trans people, it has to do with people who game the system the way the offender did and people too blinded by their idealogy to recognize the potential for abuse.
"Steven N, if a parent is doing this: (a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.)"
You are lying for the regime. Period.
You are possessed by ideologies and don't have ideas yourself.
You know it happened in Loudon County (among other places) and you are lying is saying "it never happened".
We have the police reports.
School board members, equally possessed by ideologies like yourself, knowingly put young girls at risk to support a political agenda.
As for anti-semitism. Just look to the squad and most progressives unwavering support for Palatine and the destruction of Isreal. The ADL doesn't can't even define racism (because they shifted their definition so the Nazi's were not racist... by their definition... they came back and said we might need to rethink that...) anymore and are just a joke.
Steven, you’re making all sorts of accusations without knowing what you’re talking about!
“But it does mean that conservatives shouldn't hold up the Loudoun County sexual assault as a cautionary tale about the supposed dangers of letting trans students use women's bathrooms. If anything, it's a cautionary tale about credulously assuming the worst when it would be maximally politically convenient to do so.”
https://reason.com/2021/11/01/conservatives-wrongly-portrayed-the-loudoun-county-sexual-assault-as-a-transgender-bathroom-issue/
But you said stuff like that NEVER happened. It does. Look at the rash of rapes and pregnancies in women’s prison in both the UK and California. Women raped by other male inmates claiming to be women.
BTW: the Louden County assailant was a multiple offender and was protected by a radical left school board. That was the primary focus of the backlash.
Quit lying.
The trans rape never happened? It happened twice with the same guy when they hushed it up and moved him to another school. Did you miss the GOP wipe out in VA elections as a result?
Imagine an alternate reality where Trump created the Disinformation Governance Board. How would your very visceral reaction to at least the first part of my post change?
That… right there… that’s the reason this should be an unequivocally bi-partisan issue that should be pushed back on with fervor. I’ve certainly heard of the first amendment and it is the exact reason that this board should have never even been a consideration in the mind of any American, much less its President.
The narrative is convenient for you, for now. Have you learned nothing in the past two years about how these things go? Do you actually read this stack or listen to Bari’s pods?
MAGC, what exactly do you think the Disinformation Governance Board will do? I’m a dummy; you need to explain to me very carefully.
I know You're speaking in jest. But You really ARE a dummy. Because people HAVE explained it very carefully, and You refuse to see the nose in front-a Your FACE. Stupe.
Apparently, you understand it, by your comment: so what will the board do?
Well, You're right. It remains to be seen. What they *say* they're gonna do may be different than what they do. I would just note that the woman heading the thing probably would-a shut down the Hunter laptop investigation for good.
As far as not seeing the nose in front of Your face, that was a generality. Not particularly in response to this particular thread.
"anti-Semitism has indeed increased on the far right" let's apply some common logic to this idea to find whether it seems correct or not.
You supposition is TFR (The Far Right) is anti-Semitic. TFR supports Trump -> Trump's daughter, son-in law and grand-children are Jewish ... or Semitic. Trump has not disowned either his daughter, son inlaw, nor grand children. Trump has done a lot of favors for Israel, so much so, that in Israel, government buildings are named after Trump.
Does TFR call for boycott and divestment of Israel? No, that comes from the left.
I think there's a pretty big disconnect in the logic of your statement that TFR is anti-Semitic.
Michael, how does the ADL report fit within your logic!
https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-audit-finds-antisemitic-incidents-in-united-states-reached-all-time-high-in
Is the ADL partisan or biased? In the old days, the ACLU would stand to defend the civil liberties of even NAZIs ... because defending the civil liberties of someone you don't like, or disagree with is the sign of true dedication to the cause of civil liberties ... true character. Now-a-days the ACLU is just a run of the mill progressive organization ... progressing to the defeat of enlightened capitalism, liberty ... classic liberalism that is.
Michael, there’s still defending the civil liberties of people most Americans don’t like!
filed a brief in Michigan supporting anti-Semitic protesters picketing in front of a synagogue on the Sabbath;
filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court with the conservative Americans for Prosperity Foundation and the Institute for Justice in support of a case challenging a free speech zone by an evangelical Christian, represented by Alliance Defending Freedom;
filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court supporting a Catholic school’s religious right to discriminate in the hiring and firing of a teacher with significant religious responsibilities;
sent a letter on behalf of a Trump supporter in Georgia who was being criminally prosecuted for flying a flag on his own property that said, “Trump 2020: Fuck Your Feelings.” Charges were dropped after the prosecutor received our letter;
https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/defending-speech-we-hate
ADL lost its way and purpose 20 years ago
Great job... but too much truth all at once for most. Thanks
Willie, the definition of Truth: the body of real things, events, and facts. I have a small challenge for you, pick any three, and provide proof, and I think the odds are overwhelming that I will never hear from you!
Right - on the subject of nursing homes - Richard Levine was a Pediatrician who became secretary of health in PA - and after he took his own mother out of a nursing home, put her in a nice hotel, and allowed other nursing home patients to die - our administration elevated him to US Assistant Health Secretary and then honored him as the "First Female Four Star Admiral". Ewww that he was a pediatrican, too. I know he has given "gender health" talks at Duke University. You cannot make this stuff up. The inmates are running the asylum. And, the republicans have not done anything much to stop it, by and large.
That shocks me that you might be right. You are right that it is easier to turn away instead of looking right at things. It wasn't a hundred percent snark when I said that truth is strong medicine; even for myself sometimes. I really just figured it was arrogance and pride that kept the governors from admitting they were wrong and changing course. You know the conventional wisdom that attributing things like that to incompetence instead of malice is erring on the side of giving the benefit of the doubt. I'm beginning to think the benefit of the doubt is about used up though.
Marek, you can’t prove this: “over 90% of hate crimes and bias incidents against Jews come from the Far Left.”.
This is pure fantasy: ” pending legislation that would form a federal police force to enforce Rep. Omar's definition of Islamophobic.”
Parents have nothing to worry about if we don’t behave like terrorists, and it’s idiotic that you think the truth is brainwashing.
The Marc Zuckerberg comment is delusional paranoia with no proof!
Marek, you got so many illusions, delusions, and fabrications without proof; it’s all claptrap, drivel! Your trafficking in nonsense and nothing else!
Where the hell is your evidence?
Marek, your comment; can't be backed up with proof; “…BLM, who committed anti-Semitic hate crimes Bari Weiss reported on, and the ADL and liberal media covered up.” Don’t tell me to get my facts straight; if you can give me the facts you haven’t, you’re all talk and no action. If you can’t prove it, it’s all hot air!
I haven't looked into this more than seeing the article but it sounds concerning:
https://pjmedia.com/columns/rabbi-michael-barclay/2022/05/10/social-justice-warriors-silent-after-lufthansa-boots-over-100-jews-from-flight-n1596881
Marek, pick one thing out of your rant accept the anti-Semitism and provide proof!
https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-audit-finds-antisemitic-incidents-in-united-states-reached-all-time-high-in
Marek, I pity your relatives, friends, and your employer. You have lost contact with reality, and it looks like you’re so far down the rabbit hole you’ll be lost forever!
Couldn’t agree more.
Oh, MAGC, I forgot, you need to start breathing to a paper bag, this will help with your hyperventilation!
AGREE!!!!!!
I want to put your 4th paragraph on Twitter and have no way to cite you for the quote.
Just go ahead and copy it. Let people know it came from the comments of Bari’s substack and promote her pod while you’re at it. I’m curious what the responses will be.
Magc...nice job
You are over reacting, because when Trump is re-elected in 2024 he is going to put the Ministry of Truth into over drive. And watching the nitwits who thought this would be a good idea react is going to have entertainment value worth trillions.
ChrisC, do you know the difference between Disinformation and truth?
If he does get elected again (Lord, help us) anything less than abolishing the entire thing during his first minute in office is an insufficient response. This board is catastrophic no matter who is in charge.
Just like Elon buying Twitter. I happen to agree with his position on things. But I’m still not thrilled that any random billionaire can control speech this much.
A few years ago, I listened to Jordan Peterson saying that if we ever implemented the speech police, it would be the people you would least want to have doing the policing. I didn't really believe him; but then I hadn't been the one studying the Nazis and other totalitarian regimes. Silly me!
ministry of truth , ave these people ever read a book ? BESIDES goebels and OTHER Nazis . I saw this coming 30 years ago , sad what has happened to the US
"Your papers please."
"I promise, sir, I had a permit for this Tweet! It's in here somewhere!"
or that the party in power never changes...
The fact that they are openly doing things like this convinces me that they are SURE that they will never lose power again. What's hard to determine that this point is whether that's extremely wishful thinking on their part or whether they actually have systems in place to make sure they always "win" elections from now on.
I just finished reading your entire essay word for word, and you completely glossed over the main issue, which is that Dick Van Dyke no longer has the worst Mary Poppins British accent.
I think I'm going to have to sign in on both my wife's and daughter's laptops. so that I can like this comment two more times.
How can anyone possibly think that we should take this woman (sorry for assuming her gender) seriously.
Hahahaahahhaha
Richard of Dick
Mary Tyler Moore still is the reason to watch that show.
News like these make me question am I dreaming, this cannot be reality.
As I was growing up in 1990 in Eastern Europe, USA was a shiny beacon among dark clouds, its institutions were something to be admired. I looked up at Congress, Supreme Court, President with admiration, wanted our institutors back home be like this. Now some two decades later, I want anything but that institutions back home are like those in US. Congress is literal representation of corruption (insider trading, personal enrichment while US people suffer). Presidency was discredited by Clinton, then by Bush and his lies. Obama and Trump dint helped. And now Biden is literary burying any notion of credibility that the office of president had.
We used to make fun that in China there was propaganda ministry, now there will be one in USA. Such sad day for democracy.
Sometimes I think, that if US was to be couped by some external enemy, that they would we more merciful that what is currently going on. It is like someone is on purpose trying to destroy US from within.
PS. I forgot to mention Supreme Court, that was one of institutions I admired the most, but after what happed this week, sad sad state of affairs, it is like last bastion of US greatness has started to crumbed to petty party politics.
Lincoln predicted only we could destroy us. The left is actively pursuing this
They don't deny it's their end goal, anyway... so...
Bravo, Raziel, nicely put. I agree that everything that has been happening in our country can only be attributed to an external actor(s) destroying it from within using corrupt politicians and susceptible ( liberally-educated, with low self esteem yet inflated sense of entitlement) segments of the population, regardless of their race or ethnic origin.
It is a shame that the majority of reasonable Americans are too comfortable and afraid to speak up. There is no platform to represent them. The current political parties speak for the noisy fringes, not for all of us in the middle. That's why they are easy to be bought and manipulated. Even SCOTUS is about to hit the rock bottom.
The question is how do we get out of this death spiral without engaging in violence...
The other side is using increasing violence. You just haven't been paying attention.
people never realize until it is to late to do anything , nothing changes except the year
Yeah, no. It's going to take violence. "The tree of liberty..."
It's not reality, it's hyperreality. Too real to be true.
When we were studying the US System in eighth-grade civics class, I remember thinking how the horrendous things which took place in the Soviet and Chinese systems could never happen here. Age and experience have taught me otherwise. With lunatics like the Disinformation Czarina spinning her performance art online for the world to see and a senile Titular Presidents setting new records for insanity every day, Lewis Carroll and Franz Kafka must be spinning in their graves like tops. They never intended their fiction to become fact.
Because parts of that system are still operative, though, it is still possible to reverse this descent into madness. I see that J.D. Vance won the Ohio Republican primary last night, having come to Jesus about the America First agenda and its founder. Others are doing the same.
The liars and cheaters know they are in deep kimchi come November and they know they cannot prevail - or even keep their jobs - unless they cheat once again. Voting integrity, not Ukraine, not gender identity, not Supreme Court leaks must be our focus now because if we fail in that, none of the rest matters.
The Supreme Court leak was obviously engineered to give the Left their "Big Issue" going into the midterms. Despite the fact that the elimination of Roe V. Wade changes nothing in blue states (which already have legal abortions enshrined by law), we'll be hearing lies about this issue at top volume from now until November in attempt to convince women that the children they don't have are more important than the children they already have.
I'm still not sure about that. It would make MUCH more sense to wait for the decision to be released because people have very short memories. Stirring them up NOW about abortion does less to help with the midterms than the same (or similar) decision coming closer in time to the midterms.
Perhaps you're crediting the leaker with a level of self-restraint they do not possess.
I'm not sure it matters when the leak occurred. This issue is pure dynamite for the Left. I expect BLM-style mass protests to start up as the weather warms.
Which, come to think of it, might just provoke a useful backlash by November.
Fundraising is in high gear already.
Perhaps, but then again, the party may have directed the leak NOW because there's an awful boatload of bad news about to come out about the economy, the ukraine war, hunter's laptop, immigration...
Well imagine this: the final vote does not strike down Roe, someone changes their mind. The dems still have the fear that it could be struck down.
That leak is pure political theater. It’s release feels planned to me.
Entirely possible. It's all speculation at this point though until a) the actual opinion is released or b) the identity of the leaker is determined.
Agreed. Makes no sense to me, either.
Yeah the other equally plausible theory is that one of the judges was getting cold feet about overturning Roe, so a conservative leaked it to lock them into their commitment to overturn.
I do not find that equally plausible. The leak does not lock anyone into anything. A Justice who was in the process of changing his mind on the subject could win the love (or at least the respect) of the Left by openly choosing to go ahead and dissent, which would cancel the decision altogether.
I have a cynical fear that the Leftist leaker is hoping that some crazed partisan will assassinate at least one of the conservative Justices, making way for the confirmation of a Leftist Justice before the midterms.
Choosing to dissent at this point would look like cowering to the mob, so to show they cannot be intimidated, the justices more or less have to stay the course and uphold their votes to overturn.
Yes and no; the idiots who leaked it surely knew that the decision was to be published before November. This was the irrational act of a deranged liberal.
I received text messages yesterday from two LA City Council candidates vowing to "preserve a women's right to choose." As if they could do anything about that or would even need to in a state like California where abortion rights are championed and embraced with religious fervor. This leak was perfectly designed for opportunists who want to grasp at political red herrings.
Both parties only seem to care about bodily autonomy when it suits them. I don't love this turn of events, but it's not enough to make me vote Democrat after they've spent the last five years trying to replicate the Chinese Cultural Revolution here.
I'm glad you have to the good sense to recognize that you can't pick up just the pro-choice end of that turd.
For sure, no. But I kind of wanted to vote Republican because they got the Vax mandates shot down and because I care about 2A. I default to Libertarian, but sadly, third parties aren't really viable here.
I also default libertarian, and I protest-voted for the Libertarian POTUS candidate for years, until the Democrats lost their minds. I used to vote judiciously to keep my state purple, but now I wouldn't vote for a Democrat for dogcatcher (they'd probably either refuse to actually catch dogs because "it's not fair" or else slaughter everyone's pets in the name of PETA--you could never be which).
You're so funny. Sad but true about that dogcatcher.
That's what was a little funny about 2020. I had literally never voted for a Republican in a presidential election before then, and I don't think I'm the only one. The dems were so baffled that Trump made gains after their concentrated campaign to get rid of him. It didn't seem to occur that he could simply be perceived as a lesser evil.
I forget who said this, but it is SO true: forget parties and labels--vote for the outcomes or policies you want to see happen. If more voters adopted this principle, we could finally start down a better path as a country.
I am VERY biased, but my experience with friends is that people who favor Trump do so because of his policies and DESPITE his personality. Friends who disfavor him do so BECAUSE of his personality and DESPITE his policies. Seems to me they need to figure out which side their bread is buttered-on.
Yes, excellent example, and my experience as well. If I owned a company, and I had a choice of hiring Steve Jobs or that spineless clown running Disney, the choice would be obvious. Results are what I would be buying. American voters need to learn that.
Absolutely. I have been saying this for two years. Without voting integrity NOTHING else matters. 2000 mules just released.
Well said. Interestingly, Chomsky praised Trump's position on Ukraine a few days ago. My personal take is that if Trump were president, we wouldn't even be having this discussion; the invasion would have never happened. Failing that, George Washington hisownself said it in his farewell address: stay the hell out of Europe's wars.
You play to your strengths and your opponent's weakness. We saw in WWII what America's manufacturing sector could do; nearly every historian believes that America's assembly-line prowess vis à vis socialist Germany's manufacturing incompetence won the war. Finished a great YouTube video on that last night.
If we stop attacking our manufacturing base, stop sending American jobs overseas because of low labor costs and start MAKING THINGS again, we will leave China, Russia, all the rest in the dust, falling further behind every day. That's how you win.
Seems to me like a fair-ad proposal.
Those are excellent points. I deliberately read some of that stuff to get different takes on the Ukrainian situation, but it also needs a critical eye--good reminder.
Not sure how Tulsi is a traitor. She seems pretty sensible to me.
Jeez, are any of they what they claim to be?
But, at least in the case of Biden, the corruption is right out there for all to see. Heck, his own kid outed him. And the evidence of his payoffs by China is irrefutable. And still most of pretend that this corrupt, senile imbecile is fit to be our President.
Having come from J.D. Vance's part of the country, I was a bit put off by his "Hillbilly Elegy." Not that most of it wasn't true; I felt he had an agenda and was willing to use his family and friends to further it along. He was an avowed Never-Trumper in 2016 also. I'm still a little wary of him - just like I am of Joe Manchin, - who is from my home state and whom I've met - but Vance seems willing to admit mistakes and seems to be a real America First guy. Trump accepted Vance's apology and endorsed him; if that's good enough for the two of them, I suppose it's good enough for me. We have bigger fish to fry than to ruminate over past petty grievances.
I've been a woman on the internet since 1996, and yet somehow I've managed to avoid all these terrible woes.
Perhaps coincidentally (perhaps not) the only #metoo experience I've ever had was when a hotel porter in an Italian hotel tried to grope me in an elevator. I was barely 14, but I managed to protect myself until the elevator doors opened.
Still, I've wondered, since #metoo, if any of my fellow girl scouts in our group was less fortunate than I was.
I believed (falsely) throughout my youth that I must be horribly ugly, since I wasn't getting hit on like all the other girls were. After a lifetime of experience, I've come to the conclusion that, without even really being aware of it, I give off Don't-You-Even-Go-There vibes. Even my husband of 35 years didn't try anything with me when we were dating that I hadn't greenlighted first.
My first email account was MS-DOS in what, 1994? I paid for Compuserve. So yeah, right there with you.
I had a very unconventional childhood so I knew early on how to take care of myself but didn’t know until university that I exude that aura of don’t fuck with me. Several professors and many fellow students made mention of it.
I don’t need that twit Jankowitz or however her name is spelled for anything whatsoever.
I’m tempted to create a Twitter account for the express purpose of telling her and that scum bucket Mayorkas that I will say what I like where I like when I like. They don’t like it? Come and get me.
I am done with the these people trying to justify their power grabs using me as an excuse.
Right on. It’s also a babyish way to hurl back at legitimate criticism like it’s an ad hominem attack. “You’re just a misogynist.” I’m tired of that junk. Grow up. I don’t need her to foster weakness in me.
but..but...Jankowitz is an "expert" in disinformation
it says so in her self published bio...so it must be true
Expert: a has-been drip of water put under pressure.
The term "being a woman on the internet" does not mean what many think it means.
Of course Jankowicz is a comedic caricature. A loon living in her fantasy world of woke lies and fables, in an apartment filled with cats and a fridge filled with wine and yogurt. Which would be perfectly fine, unless and until she is given power. Then it all turns malevolent and dark. And not the least bit funny.
Aside from our loved ones, our most precious gift in life is liberty. Jankowicz with power is a clear and present danger to that. As are that vile troll Mayorkas and his boss, the senile imbecile who embarrasses our nation on a daily basis. People who threaten our most precious liberties are not our "political opponents." They are our mortal enemies. You mistake that existential difference at your peril.
I agree with this comment. It may not be as satirical as some comments, but I believe in it's truth. Happy Common Sense exists, but unfortunately, the people who need to be "deprogrammed" from the propaganda of the Leftist lies, will probably never read Common Sense or allow themselves to actually be exposed to any information that disagrees with their (hateful, facist, dangerous and bigoted) beliefs. Maybe it is true, "you can't fix stupid". But I hope it is not too late. Thanks Bari. First thing I read every morning to help align myself with reality. Maybe "1984" should have been banned years ago, so this new generation wouldn't find it's vision of the world so aspirational!
So well said Bruce.
If Jankowitz is serious about protecting women online, she can start by removing all Met Galla...I mean Hunger Games...photos from my social media feed (shudder). Also stop people from posting their Wordle scores. It’s upsetting to those who get it in six.
Other than that, I can’t believe this shit is happening. I think Raziel is right. We’re being destroyed from the inside.
The Disinformation Governance Board, or the Ministry of Truth, as critics dubbed it, has an ambitious mission: to stop the spread of misinformation. That sounds nice. Except, what one woman calls “misinformation” another might just call “information.”
While I enjoyed the entire article, the above quote was the perfect summary of what's so clearly wrong about the concept.
In a way, Herzog has hit on the perfect way to attack this new abomination: ridicule!
In terms of stopping this, there is no way appeals to logic and reason will work with these sociopaths. However, all thinking people can MOCK this tragedy at every turn. NEVER accept what they say! Reject it, make fun of it, make it so that anyone who listens to them is made to feel like a fool. Above all, know that you must FIGHT BACK, and humor to these assholes is like water to the Wicked Witch of the West. FIGHT!
Q: How many Disinformation Nannies does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: That's NOT funny, that's SEXIST. Oh, and you're under arrest.
We need a new Lenny Bruce/George Carlin/Red Foxx/Richard Prior. Comedians can save us from this mess of a mind set we're in right now.
Comedians will save us by challenging people of all stripes to think. Will Smith normalized attacking a comedian onstage, and Dave Chappelle was the first victim of this new trend.
We have Dave Chappelle .......he is good !!!!
And Bill Burr, but losing Norm was a gut shot. And Mahar, but I think he's driven more by the wind than sincere convictions.
I’m afraid most of not all are completely cowed.
Pretty interesting piece and definitely scary. I hope they take an absolute drubbing at the polls in November.
Also just listened to your latest Honestly podcast with Andrew Sullivan. While overall I liked it I felt compelled to reply here about it just to say that I thought what he said about Chris Rufo was a terrible smear. Discussing his work exposing teachers saying/doing troubling things pertaining to gender and trans ideology, Andrew said that Chris is basically accusing them all of trying to rape children. Which I thought was an obscene thing to say; Chris is just trying to expose some of the troubling behavior in public schools, I highly doubt he'd agree with such a thing. It wasn't even clear what Andrew's real point was, if you wanted to say that well he was just being hyperbolic.
Thank you for pointing that out
But can she even define what IS a woman?!?
Right?!?!
this world needs more you Katie.
Gynocentric Fascism- Creating and leveraging massive state bureaucracies to ostensibly stop "toxic masculinity" and protect "pure femininity". From HRC's "It takes an overreaching state" to raise proper children to todays "it takes an entire bureaucracy" to protect childless cat moms. The cards are absolutely stacked against men in this age. Add Roe V Wade to the mix and you'll see the most gender polarized elections in history coming up.
'Elon Musk and Babylon Bee memes satirizing post-modern gender hysteria will be categorized as "malign creativity". Likewise any jokes about Jankowicz's cabaret skills, all coded attacks on women at large, will be properly relegated to the category of misogynistic wrong-think. The disinformation board will extirpate...'
I just hate her explanation for making the video was because she "had a face full of makeup" Sexist, much?
Childless TRANS cat parents. They have already shoved biological females to the side.
The trans trend and nullification of sex is part of the same statist engineering project IMO. NeoMarxism in academia has emerged and infected other institutions of power. The family and traditional gender roles are threats to the hegemony of ideas posited by the woke.
not sure the RvW decision will have any impact on the election (aside from huge fundraising). The folks that are wound up are already part of the base (both sides), and the ones in the middle might be more concerned about inflation, Ukraine, myriad of other issues where abortion is about eleventy on the list.
We'll see. Gender and college seem to be primary factors driving voter patterns. RVW might energize the neurotic female faction
Like I implied, already part of their base
Correct but the disparity in vote enthusiasm up until now has been huge and favoring the GOP on almost all issues. Traditionally voter enthusiasm is a decent metric anticipating turnout. Unmarried, college educated women under 30 has historically been a very low turnout group. This ruling *may* be enough to drive them to the polls to actually vote. On the other hand the Dems may overplay their hysteria and feed into the larger disgust the nation feels towards anti-humanist, anti-natalist misanthopes on the left. It won't be enough to tilt the election compared to other issues but it could drive larger war of the sexes antagonism... time will tell.
Almost all of the internet censorship thus far has been done on behalf of the Democrat party and the government either as a campaign finance violation or a First Amendment violation.
I feel like making it all official, as opposed to an unspoken agreement, with this new government board could open them up to legal action.
And as I’m typing this Chris Coons is on CNBC talking about regulating social media. Chris Coons is held up as a moderate Democrat and he is in fact a gigantic extreme piece of shit fascist who has previously proposed outlawing ‘climate denial’.
(‘climate denial’ will of course include people like me who simply deny that functionless cocksuckers like Chris Coons can fix the climate)
Just to clarify, Harris did sleep her way to the top. “Girls” if you want a better role model pick ACB, a super mother and Supreme Court justice!! Yes you can have it all!!!
I hope this new ministry can finally solve the overwhelming problem of the nefarious men at the BABYLON BEE, a constant source of “misinformation “😎
Willie Brown would argue that there weren't too much "sleeping" involved.
“this new effort is designed purely to combat disinformation spread by human traffickers and the Russian government”
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A weird flex since the Biden administration is the world’s largest human trafficker.
A year or so ago, a planeload of unaccompanied minors landed at the Des Moines Airport in the middle of the night. Many of them were loaded into busses after arrival. All this was caught on security video, so there was no question about WHAT happened, only about who and why.
ICE denied that they had anything to do with flight...until Iowa law enforcement began investigating the incident as a probable case of child sex trafficking. Suddenly ICE admitted that they had sent illegal immigrant minor children to be delivered to "safe" locations, theoretically the children's relatives.
It is one thing to fail to enforce our immigration laws. It is quite another to actively subvert them. That's tantamount to treason.
Theoretically!?!?
That's what they claimed. I don't think any proof was ever given (or required).