Hilary Clinton suggests putting Americans in jail for exercising their First Amendment right to free speech. Amazing and distressing to see a trained lawyer advocating this. In fact, Clinton's comment is deplorable.
Karl Rove said the quiet part out loud here. It is a very powerful strategy, especially when fortified with widespread censorship and sophisticated U.S. Security State Psyops. That's why it is the Democratic Party's bread and butter on all major issues today. Congratulations, Democrats. You have become that abhorrent thing that Republicans have been for decades!
I saw Kamala, you know, at the convention and she gave a speech that was very bellicose and belligerent. It was a kind of speech that was written by neocons and the CIA. The first time in history they had the CIA former director speaking right before, Leon Panetta, and military people speaking at the Democratic Convention. Democrats were the anti-war party. They were the pro-Constitution Party. They were the party that was against Wall Street and representing the little guys, the cops, the firefighters union and labor people. In the 2020 election, roughly 50% of the people in this country voted for Donald Trump. But that group that voted for Donald Trump represented 30% of the wealth in our country. The 50% of the people that voted for Joe Biden represented 70% of the wealth.
There's been an inversion now, where the Republican Party has become the party of the common man, of working people of the middle class, the Democratic Party has become the party of Wall Street, of the military industrial complex, a Big Pharma, Big Agriculture, Big Tech, the Big Banking systems and all of Donald Trump calls the deep state, which is this, this web of financial interest that not is unnecessarily a little conspiracy, but it's a conspiracy of self interest that functions together in tandem to shift wealth upward, to clamp down totalitarian controls and to transform this country and from the world's exemplary democracy into a corporate kleptocracy and A very, very oppressive oligarchical system, the kind of system we fought a revolution to overthrow in 1776.
The "news." If you still have even a little bit of respect for corporate news, check out this mashup of the coverage of Walz vs Vance.
Excerpt from FIRE's recent Amicus Brief:
Never before has Congress taken the extraordinary step of effectively banning a communications platform, let alone one used by half the country. But this spring, Congress did exactly that when it passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. The law not only threatens TikTok’s U.S. operation but also exposes other online platforms to burdensome restrictions, including potential bans, if they have even tenuous connections to certain foreign countries.Recent development:
TikTok and its users quickly filed lawsuits in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which the act gives exclusive jurisdiction for challenges to the law. FIRE, joined by the Institute for Justice and the Reason Foundation, filed an amici curiae — “friend of the court” — brief supporting the plaintiffs. We argued the law violates the First Amendment in two ways.
First, it explicitly targets a specific communications platform — and the users who speak and access content on it — for the purpose of silencing opinions and ideas that lawmakers oppose. Such attempts to suppress disfavored views strike at the heart of the First Amendment.
Second, to the extent the law is motivated by national security concerns, Congress has failed to build a public record explaining why such a dramatic restriction of Americans’ right to speak and access information is necessary to address those concerns. (However, the court will not consider the brief for procedural reasons explained in the note following this article.)
The spin machine has kicked into overdrive. If only they worked this hard to protect the leading candidate for President.
It's not difficult to see through the deception, the pomposity, the arrogance and the manipulation. Our job as citizens is to shut the fuck up and mind our own business. Federal Law enforcement's job is to conceal screamingly relevant information when it is inconvenient to the elitist leadership, in order to protect us. Nothing to see here. We're going to hide this from you for no good reason. Trust us. Maybe we'll let you see it in 60 years, as we did with the Kennedy assassination (the 1963 coup). And yes, it's what we did to "protect" you when a transgender person murdered a group of people in Tennessee (and see Glenn Greenwald's discussion and see here and here).
Go back to your lives and don't fuss about the motives the would-be assassin might have for trying murder the front-runner for U.S. President.