Leftists Want You to Shut Up About the Disaster They Are Provoking
As they lead us toward an American apocalypse.
12 commentsHere’s something I bet you did not see coming either – Lindsey Graham was actually right about something, in this case when he warned the malicious morons of the left about the terrifying consequences of their desire to eliminate a political opponent by framing him in a jurisdiction that is 95% Democrat and where every juror either is, married to, or having a tacky fling with, a Biden administration Deputy Assistant Under-Secretary of Agriculture for Yam, Potato, and Brian Stelter Affairs.
Lindsey Graham – an Air Force colonel who served his country, unlike the vast majority of the Ukraine flag-waiving, freshly-minted patriots of the Twitter left – told Fox News that “there literally will be riots in the street…I worry about the country” if President Donald Trump is indicted on some bullSchiff charge by the fully-fascist minions of President Kiddie Showers. Let’s leave aside that just a few months ago mostly peaceful protests were a moral imperative that even took precedence over COVID lockdowns, a sacrament of the prog establishment ranking just below infanticide. And let’s also leave aside how, suddenly, classified information – in this case, held by the guy who could declassify it on a whim – is now illegal to mishandle again. Let’s just cut to the chase – this is yet another ploy to frame Trump after multiple failed attempts to frame Trump.
We know it.
The people trying to frame him know it.
And the left cheers it.
It is all so unbelievably dangerous.
This is a conspiracy to knock out one of Grandpa Badfinger’s political opponents, a shameless attempt to keep Americans voting on a candidate the establishment is terrified of that is accompanied by a symphony of caterwauling and croc tears about “Muh Democracy.”
Oh, it’s is about “Muh Democracy,” as in “Their Democracy.”
And the whining about Lindsey Graham pointing out the obvious, that this kind of banana republic shenanigan is destabilizing and threatens to provoke civil conflict, is designed for one purpose. That purpose is to place any discussion about the self-evidently foreseeable consequences of the regime’s litany of oppressions outside the range of permissible debate. Anyone with a glancing acquaintance with history – which excludes all the graduates of our allegedly prestigious universities (Tangent: Tax the endowments!) – understands that you cannot decide that half-the country, those “deplorables,” those “semi-fascists,” those “non-New Yorkers,” must be disenfranchised, then start doing it, and then expect them to just go along with it.
We just saw President Daddyshowers McDroolalot inform us that he’s going to set the F-15s on us uppity AR-packing patriots – right in time for the anniversary of his sorry behind getting chased out of Kabul by a much smaller number of degenerates with ancient AKs. But having him croak out this threat is part and parcel of the plan. Our garbage ruling class hates accountability and consequences for its misrule, so its solution to us pointing out the reality is to try to intimidate us into not speaking the truth about what lies down the road if they keep up doing what they are doing. Bravo Lindsey for telling it like it is despite their girlish moaning.
Pointing out the consequences of ruling caste’s trek to tyranny is not supporting or endorsing those consequences. It’s the opposite. Lindsey Graham is not cheering on riots. He’s warning of them. I had a similar experience with the invertebrate sissies of The Bulwark over my People's Republic series of conservative action novels that warn about America divorcing into red and blue nations (Kelly Turnbull returns in Book VII, INFERNO, October 15, 2022, BTW!). Those simps claimed I was in favor of ripping the country apart even though only an idiot would take that away from the novels, and my new non-fiction book We’ll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America even has a whole chapter on why a national divorce is a terrible idea (and why Father-of the-Year Joe’s ideas about how a civil war might go are as dumb as his ideas about everything else). But their point was to shut me up on behalf of their pinko masters, just like the left wanted to shut Lindsey Graham up, and just like they want to shut you up.
But we won’t shut up. We can’t. Because these idiots, these corrupt morons, are the wrecking country they inherited. Remember, they did not build this country into the greatest nation in human history – they were handed it. And like most trust fund babies, they are unworthy of their inheritance. They are bunch of marginally cleaner-shaven Hunter Bidens squandering their legacy as they huff hits of ideological meth.
These are bad people, and stupid people, and most of these coddled popinjays have never taken or given a punch. They think that they can preserve their power, position, and prestige by leveraging the wrath of the government to threaten, imprison and even kill their fellow citizens who refuse to comply, and that they can use their kept media to inflict social sanctions to keep the normal behaving. But it is an illusion. It can work for a little while, but their undermining of the system is planting the seeds of their own destruction. After all, the institutions operate because of the consent of the governed. In the absence of earned loyalty, people obey only because of inertia, and when it becomes clear to the normals that the game is rigged, the people will stop playing.
Oh, they can arrest some of us and cancel others, but this suppression of dissent is an information operation, not a kinetic one, despite Crusty’s babbling about F-15s. Its effect is solely to sow fear – logistically, they can never arrest (or worse) enough normals to prevail if we simply refuse to be afraid and obey. There are 35,000 FBI agents. There are more normals in just New Hampshire with hunting licenses.
We are far, far away from the line where violent resistance is justifiable, but every day the garbage elite seems determined to toss away another norm or rule that keeps this kind of catastrophe distant. If you go to a bar and find a big guy just minding his own business drinking a Coors and you push him, then push him again and again, at some point he will take a swing and out go your lights.
Does our ridiculous elite get this? They grew up in a “use your words” world. They felt the giddy thrill of their catspaws in Antifa and BLM burning down working people’s homes and businesses in 2020, but for them violence is theory. For a lot of normals – especially the ones who fought these establishment creeps’ disastrous wars over the last two decades – it’s practice.
These clowns ought to thank Lindsey Graham for drenching them with an ice-cold bucket of common sense. But they won’t. They can’t. They are manifestly unfit to rule, and the same stupidity that is risking the consequences Lindsey Graham warned about may well keep them from stopping themselves as they slouch toward an American apocalypse.
Exclusive — Senator Josh Hawley Opposes Media Cartel Plan
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) will oppose the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), his spokesman told Breitbart News on Tuesday night.
Hawley’s formal opposition to the JCPA represents one of the final remaining Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee who was not formally on record in favor of the proposal or against it. Hawley’s spokesman, Phil Letsou, confirmed to Breitbart News that the Senator is opposed to the bill on Tuesday evening. Hawley has also apparently been skeptical of the plan for a long time, and opposes antitrust exemptions like the one the JCPA would create for media outlets.
Hawley joins several others, including Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), and more from the Senate Judiciary Committee in opposing the legislation. He also joins other top Republicans like House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy in his opposition to the plan.
Some establishment Republicans like Sens. John Thune (R-SD) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC)—as well as Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA)—have signed on to the legislation. Kennedy, the lead GOP sponsor of the bill alongside lead Democrat sponsor Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) in the U.S. Senate, has however expressed concerns with the deep structural flaws in the proposal as Breitbart News reported earlier on Tuesday. Kennedy’s office challenges the characterization that he expressed concerns with the bill, but admitted that he pushed for several changes to the original plan—an admission by his office that the senator himself knows that the plan he proffered was flawed and unworthy of conservative support from the outset.
Several Republicans and conservatives believe that the changes made to the bill make the plan even worse and do nothing to help conservatives. In fact, one that Kennedy’s office highlighted in conversations with Breitbart News earlier on Tuesday would create a private right of action for outlets not included in media cartels that the antitrust exemption would create so they could sue in court for being excluded. While Kennedy’s office—who insists the senator still supports the proposal but claims he admits it was flawed from the outset—points to that as some kind of conservative victory, in reality, the addition of the private right of action is an admission by the bill’s lead GOP sponsor in the U.S. Senate that this proposal will in fact discriminate against conservatives and others with viewpoints that veer off the mainstream of what the establishment media believes.
The JCPA in theory would allow various media organizations an antitrust exemption to be able to collectively bargain payment plans from big tech companies that carry their content on their platforms. The thinking from proponents is that it would allow media outlets to band together to challenge the power of big tech, but critics worry that it would only embolden two of arguably the worst industries in the United States: the media and tech giants. Proponents of the plan have scrambled under intense criticism to keep reviving the effort over and over, and despite dying many deaths over the past calendar year and since the proposal’s introduction last spring, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is formally considering the legislation at a markup on Thursday of this week.
The proposal’s consideration in the wake of an astonishing speech from Democrat President Joe Biden, who lambasted supporters of former President Donald Trump as threats to democracy, last week is only sure to heighten critics’ concerns. It also comes after the Biden administration had to disband its “Disinformation Governance Board” at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) earlier this year. This JCPA bill offers few answers to questions on matters including who decides who is a news organization, who gets to be part of these deals, who gets excluded, and whether the best negotiated deals would apply to everyone—or not.
The big question procedurally that remains is whether this bill will pass the full U.S. Senate after the Judiciary Committee considers it later this week. The highly controversial proposal still only has a handful of GOP cosponsors, not enough with unified Democrat support get past a 60-vote filibuster threshold in the Chamber. But, it is unclear with some rising progressive opposition if even all Democrats would be united behind it. What’s more, while Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer supports the plan, even its proponents wonder how much he does—and if he does become its full-on champion, how effectively Schumer will manage it. Some are concerned that less controversial antitrust proposals could be sacrificed if proponents of this plan go all-in for it, and they worry that Schumer could end up with nothing at the end of the process if he plays this one wrong.
Then, even if the bill passes the U.S. Senate, it still has not moved in the U.S. House. House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), who has fueled conservative and GOP opposition to the plan with his claims that its passage would help fight “disinformation,” has not yet moved on a markup of the plan. Then, even if it were to be considered there, the full House would have to pass it too. With much else to do in September for Congress as a whole, then campaign season hitting full swing in October ahead of the November midterm elections, and then the holidays interspersed with a lame duck session of Congress in November and December, the calendar days where it is possible for the prospect of a bill making it through both chambers of Congress to the president’s desk this Congress are getting slimmer.
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Hauser also didn’t like the prevalence of Big Law talent on the Department of Justice team, which signaled to him that the Biden administration could go soft on corporate malefactors.
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NEO-FASCIST TECH BILLIONAIRES AND THE BIDEN REGIME… what do the tech billionaires get from protecting the Biden crime family?
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/08/sundar-pichai-of-googles-assault-on.html
Nor can we forget the role being played by the tech giants, who are using IT as a weapon for social control and the destruction of privacy.
4. Congress, he argues “is a joke.” Our government is run by “The cogs and lickspittles in the bureaucracy, led by a small elite in corporations, above all in Big Tech and finance, will determine all important policies, foreign and domestic.”
The GOP leadership in the House of Representatives has condemned the bill, with GOP leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) calling it the “antithesis of conservatism,” and Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) warning it will be used to suppress competition.
“They [the media] will use it, in the end, to discriminate against people who don’t fit into their category, who aren’t defined as ‘the press’ — and who’s going to determine that definition?” said Jordan.
Zombie Media Cartel Bill Back and Worse Than Ever: Would Strengthen Legacy Media, Punish Anti-Establishment Outlets
A new version of the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) is circulating that is worse than the original. It allows mainstream, legacy and left-wing media to form exclusionary media cartels and then empowers them with extraordinary collective-bargaining power to collude with Big Tech companies. The amendments serve only to spell out in greater specificity how to exclude conservative and anti-establishment media from any alleged benefits.
Specifically, the new JCPA contains a provision that allows “eligible” media companies forming a cartel to “create admission criteria for membership unrelated to the size of an eligible digital journalism provider or the views expressed by its content, including criteria to limit membership to only eligible publishers or only eligible broadcasters.”
That provision is significant especially for its specificity. These mainstream and left-wing media cartels may not exclude based on size or “views expressed by its content.” But that is not how the exclusion happens or will happen.
These self-appointed mainstream and left-wing media cartels ARE allowed to exclude based on the usual, totally subjective, factors they always do, such as: “trustworthiness,” “fake news, “extremism,” “misinformation,” “hate speech,” “conspiracy,” “correction policy,” “expertise,” “authoritativeness,” etc.
All of these terms are viewpoint neutral, yet when interpreted by leftist NGOs, “media watchdogs” like NewsGuard, and the fact checkers and content moderators of Big Tech, inevitably end up targeting just one side of the political spectrum, with only the occasional token reprimand of the corporate mainstream media.
Despite misleading the American public for years – even winning a Pulitzer for their efforts – most of the news companies that pushed the discredited “Russiagate” conspiracy theory, like the New York Times and the Washington Post, continue to receive a “green” approval rating from NewsGuard, while news outlets that debunked the conspiracy theory, like Breitbart News and Fox News, are smeared as untrustworthy and unreliable.
It is easy to imagine a news cartel pointing to NewsGuard criteria – or the criteria of any organization presenting itself as an “independent watchdog” – as an allegedly viewpoint-neutral excuse to exclude conservative and independent media.
The bottom line is that any conservative or independent, or any free speech advocate, much less any Republican who does not see this fatal flaw is whistling past the graveyard and is not worthy of political support.
All they are doing by supporting this amended bill is rewarding mainstream, legacy, and left-wing publishers and Big Tech by allowing them to exclude whomever they deem not part of the club – and who do they think that will be?
Here is a hint: last week, the President of the United States just called half the country extremists who threaten the very foundation of our Republic.
Fortunately, several important voices are speaking up against the lobbyist-fueled JCPA. Numerous witnesses have testified to the bill’s failings before the Senate and House, including award-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, former local journalist Dan Gainor, and former federal antitrust enforcer Dr. Daniel Francis.
The GOP leadership in the House of Representatives has condemned the bill, with GOP leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) calling it the “antithesis of conservatism,” and Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) warning it will be used to suppress competition.
“They [the media] will use it, in the end, to discriminate against people who don’t fit into their category, who aren’t defined as ‘the press’ — and who’s going to determine that definition?” said Jordan.
In the Senate, the bill has been condemned by a growing number of Republican senators, including Marsha Blackburn, Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton, and Mike Lee.
Republican FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington, and the legal scholar who worked on President Trump’s proposed Section 230 reforms have also warned of the dangers of the legislation.
It’s not just conservatives opposing the bill — the JCPA is so transparently aligned with the interests of corporations that even some progressive think tanks have spoken out against it.
These include Public Knowledge, which called it a gift to “Wall Street media executives,” and Fight for the Future, which argued it enables an internet-killing “link tax,” and Free Press, which called it a bailout for Rupert Murdoch. The left-leaning Electronic Frontier Foundation also opposes the bill. All emphasized how the bill would benefit America’s largest, wealthiest, and most corrupt media companies.
Despite this widespread opposition, lobbyists have brought the JCPA back again, with amendments that should leave the public in no doubt that this is a bailout for the legacy media.
Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News. He is the author of #DELETED: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.
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