Posted on 09/07/2019 10:40:05 AM PDT by BipolarBob
U.S.—A number of Democratic candidates have seized on a new initiative to make Americans feel safer: a mandatory buyback. “There are a number of ideas out there that just make people upset when they’re said out loud,” said presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke. “It’s time to take those ideas off the street. That’s why it’s past time for a mandatory free speech buyback.”
The idea that the government can take away people’s rights if it just compensates people for them has a long history as a thing that Democrats have proposed but not thought too deeply about. The current proposal is to force any Americans who have scary ideas, like that there are only two genders or that climate change isn’t a serious crisis, to sell those ideas to the government at a fair market price so they are then no longer able to express those views. The government will also force the sale of dangerous media, such as making Netflix sell them the new Dave Chapelle comedy special so it can be destroyed.
“These are ideas that serve no purpose, and we need to get them out of public use,” stated Elizabeth Warren. “Some people may be upset, but they shouldn’t be, because we’re paying them for their stupid ideas. Also, we’re buying back being able to call me Pocahontas. No one needs that.”
Many have come out in opposition to this idea, such as President Trump, who says people can take his dangerous speech from his “cold, dead mouth.” It’s also unclear how much the government will pay to buy back free speech, but Democrats have noted that the going rate is a penny for one’s thoughts.
The Babylon Bee has some great ones.
Idiot left-wing thought police site “Snopes” actually fact-checked BB a couple times for their incorrect humor.
Just when one thinks the Democrats have hit the bottom of the abyss they did it a lot deeper.
Just when one thinks the Democrats have hit the bottom of the abyss they did it a lot deeper.
The Democrat Party is Evil. They are nothing more than deceit.
This may be parody, but how close is this to what the Democrats really want?
They want to silence you but probably not pay you to do so.
Well, one could say government can’t “buy back” what it never sold, then on the other hand, governments have been selling us a LOT of bad and very dangerous ideas for a long time.
I’ve got more than a few I’d live to cash in on.
“Common sense speech control”
The inevitable offshoot of “common sense gun control”
“Common sense speech control”
The inevitable offshoot of “common sense gun control”
These idiots need to be put away. I want Beto and others on board with this to go into the hood in urban cities and tell the blacks they are taking away the N word
How do Leftwingers buy back something they’ve never personally had but only parroted?
You ever notice that a feature of the Left is that there are no such things as common sense sex control that aren’t oppressive?
Red Tribe: just leave us alone and get out of our faces
Blue Tribe: oh, hell no!
Red Tribe: whatever happened to he can’t even run his own life I’ll be darned if he’ll run mine?
Blue Tribe: that was only about your lot trying to limit the sexual and narcotic life choices of our lot.
Red Tribe: so you want government to administer everything that isn’t about getting your jollies? Only that’s forbidden when it comes to common sense regulation?
Blue Tribe: you’re putting words into our mouths.
Red Tribe: then don’t seek to regulate things we consider important enough and leave us alone for a bit.
Blue Tribe: oh, hell no!
Sure has ;-)
The left would never go along with this. “Paying” people to not say things? No, leftists want to control our speech but they always insist on PUNISHING the offender.
I love Babylon Bee.
I think Snopes is a liberal website. I don’t trust them.
“The Babylon Bee has some great ones.”
No, I must disagree on this greatness idea. Today it’s written as a joke. Tomorrow the dems will make it reality.
Seriously, 30 years ago anyone saying men will be allowed to be considered girls so they can play in women sports would be the laughing stock.
The rats have succeed in turning so much of our culture upside down.
Buyback for the NY Times printing presses and servers.
Buyback for CNN’s cameras, broadcast equipment, and star reporter makeup?
Buyback for the NY Times printing presses and servers.
Buyback for CNN’s cameras, broadcast equipment, and star reporter makeup?
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