Posted on 01/13/2021 5:30:01 AM PST by Kaslin
Big Tech's rush to take down and ban social media accounts or de-platform entire websites that they believe in some way caused the horrible rioting at the Capitol is based on fear -- that Joe Biden's inauguration will devolve into another riot. Or that there will be riots at state capitols.
Social media platforms such as Twitter are only focused on President Donald Trump and his millions of devoted fans. They don't seem to focus on violent thoughts on the left, most prominently the Hollywood left. Apparently, their violent thoughts are never plausibly dangerous; no one could ever be incited by them.
One very easy example is actor (and Trump impersonator on "Saturday Night Live") Alec Baldwin, who tweeted on the night of the rioting: "Put Ted Cruz in the stocks and throw rotten fruit and buckets of horse piss at him. Then ride him on a rail. Then tar and feather him. And film it. For Netflix."
That tweet is still available. Freedom of speech is untrammeled for Tinseltown. Alec Baldwin can always claim he was joking.
He claimed he was "kidding" on Dec. 20, 2020, when he tweeted: "Who arrests Trump if he refuses to concede? Who drags him out? Pepper spray? Cuffs? A knee on his neck, cutting off his oxygen? Does he wheeze 'I can't breathe.' Just whale away on him like a pinata? Rodney King style? The thug who has destroyed the country. What does he deserve?"
Baldwin also claimed he was joking when he appeared on Conan O'Brien's late-night show in 1998, as the Bill Clinton impeachment proceedings were underway. Let's recall exactly what Baldwin yelled about the House Republicans working to impeach the president: "(I)f we were in other countries, ... all of us together would go down to Washington and we would stone Henry Hyde to death! We would stone him to death!" The audience cheered and he shouted: "Wait! Shut up! Shut up! No, shut up! I'm not finished. We would stone Henry Hyde to death, and we'd go to their homes, and we'd kill their wives and their children. We'd kill their families!"
Did that feel like a joke to Hyde? Or the other Republican impeachment managers in the House? Did their wives and children feel safe?
When Kathy Griffin was dismissed by CNN in 2017 for tweeting a picture of herself with a replica of Trump's severed head, Baldwin tweeted: "No one walked out of the studio and said, 'No! We're serious!' No one. ... but all your gutless, weasels in the GOP insisted that I actually threatened Hyde. They played the victim beautifully."
Nothing happened then. How we wish nothing had happened on Jan. 6
Baldwin has a bad habit of indulging his violent fantasies for all to see. On the Fourth of July in 2006, he took to the Huffington Post to advance a fantasy about a double murder of Osama bin Laden and then-Vice President Dick Cheney.
"Osama struggles, swearing at me in his native tongue, until I jam the box cutter into his neck. I do it again," Baldwin boasted. "I gather up the body of the world's most notorious terrorist and hurl it over the balcony. Then, in the final stroke of luck, Bin Laden lands on Dick Cheney."
As members of Trump's Cabinet resigned in disgust at the Capitol riots, Baldwin retweeted actor Michael McKean, who also had a stint on "Saturday Night Live." McKean said, "If this were Japan, there'd be a lot of seppuku instead of these chickens--- resignations." In other words, suicide by slitting your own stomach.
Apparently, no one's censoring violent thoughts famous people post on social media ... if they're liberal comedians.
C’mon man. They’re just LARPING. Give them an Academy Award.
Alec Baldwin needs a visit to Tower Hill to remind him of the consequences of shooting his mouth off like that all the time.
Oh yeah, and to remind himself that he’s a turdblossom.
One good thing about Covid is the destruction of Hollyweird’s cash flow.
“Big Tech’s rush to take down and ban social media accounts or de-platform entire websites that they believe in some way caused the horrible rioting at the Capitol is based on fear”
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No....it is based on control.
Sandra Bernhard is another one. That fugly big mouth bass looking supposed female called on her “black brothers” to gang rape Sarah Palin if she stepped foot in NYC. I know not to expect the left to call her out for the threat, but you’d think they might have a small quibble with the racist implications of her words.
Anyone who thinks this started with Trump has their head in the sand.
Yes. The left has gloried in throwing violent threats around for years, and every protest they’ve held has been accompanied by violence-Occupy, Antifa, Black Lies Matter, etc. For that matter, all the way back to the 60s. And far from condemning their violent cohorts, they reward them-see Bill Ayers, Angela Davis, etc.
And either the Left has completely ignored the 1954 attack on Congress by the Puerto Rican terrorists which wounded 5 Congressmen, or has hailed them as “Freedom Fighters”.
They all DESERVE to have Mark David Chapmans, Robert Bardos, and John Hinkleys GALORE , being their biggest fans, and stalking them
Hollywood left. Apparently, their violent thoughts are never plausibly dangerous.
The left prove that feral people do protect other feral critters.
None of the ‘celebs’ banned either on social media or had their websites removed.
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