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Obama Wants the Power to Define ‘Facts’
American Thinker ^ | 7 Jul, 2025 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 07/07/2025 4:24:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The Connecticut Forum hosted Barack Obama a few weeks ago to discuss current events, and the former president took the opportunity to support government regulatory constraints for online speech. “We want diversity of opinion. We don’t want diversity of facts,” Obama opined in his nonchalant way of attacking the First Amendment while pretending to support it. “There is a difference between these platforms letting all voices be heard,” he continued, “versus a business model that elevates the most hateful voices, or the most polarizing voices, or the most dangerous in the sense of inciting violence.” Obama has always been a tyrant wearing a smiling celebrity’s mask.

Just who shall be empowered to determine the “facts” that will constrain public speech? Barack Obama and his fellow Marxist travelers expect to have that job. Did you know that men can have babies and that women are at risk for prostate cancer? That’s right! Those are “facts”! Did you know that Hamas terrorists who chop off Jewish babies’ heads practice a “religion of peace”? That’s a “fact,” too, and anybody who disagrees is spreading “hate”! Did you know that the Clinton-Obama-Steele Dossier confirmed President Trump’s “collusion” with Russia and that Vladimir Putin now rules from the White House? That’s a “fact”! Disgraced CIA director John Brennan and disgraced FBI director Jim Comey both said so! Did you know that we’re all going to die from global cooling…er, global warming…er, I mean, extreme weather, unless we pay more in taxes and allow powerful corporations and governments to monitor our economic transactions? That’s a scientific “fact,” man! Anybody who disagrees is a “dangerous” idiot!

The truth is that if we really followed Obama’s proposed regulatory rule in constraining online speech, most of the nonsense that Democrats and their leftist cohorts around the world

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KEYWORDS: 1984; censorship; leftism; minitru; obama
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To: MtnClimber

We don’t want diversity of facts.

He would have never been eleceted if it weren’t for the media cover up and propaganda twice.


21 posted on 07/07/2025 7:04:03 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: MtnClimber
All good politicians are actors, at least in part. I think of the posed photograph where the White House staff was supposedly watching a video that showed the SEALS allegedly killing Osama bin Laden in real time. Obama and Biden looked like they were watching a crucial play in a football or basketball game, as did several of the staffers. Hillary Clinton feigned shock, with a hand covering her mouth.
22 posted on 07/07/2025 7:14:21 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: All

Please review the following Official Facts:

1. Today’s heat is your fault, 1936 was a freak of nature.

2. Today’s hurricane is your fault, 1900 was a freak of nature.

3. Today’s tornado is your fault, 1925 was a freak of nature.

4. Today’s transexual is your opportunity, ... etc etc


23 posted on 07/07/2025 8:07:50 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (For two countries with so many lawyers, there ain't much justice in Canada or America (yet))
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To: MtnClimber

Cankles wiped something with a cloth.


24 posted on 07/07/2025 8:25:07 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: MtnClimber
“We want diversity of opinion. We don’t want diversity of facts,” Obama opined ...

He couldn't even pronounce "Navy corpsman" like a normal person!

25 posted on 07/07/2025 8:47:53 AM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: MtnClimber

Don’t care what that old has-been queer obama says.


26 posted on 07/07/2025 9:52:02 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: MtnClimber

It all depends on what is, is.


27 posted on 07/07/2025 11:25:17 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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