Posted on 12/16/2022 12:57:20 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Bravo.
In a speech this past week, former President Donald Trump vowed that if reelected he will make a point of ending the federal government’s censorship of Americans’ free speech.
Within hours of my inauguration, I will sign an executive order banning any federal department or agency from colluding with any organization, business, or person, to censor, limit, categorize, or impede the lawful speech of American citizens….
I will begin the process of identifying and firing every federal bureaucrat who has engaged in domestic censorship — directly or indirectly — whether they are the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health and Human Services, the FBI, the DOJ, no matter who they are.
He also touched on another problem — namely, the revolving door that has developed between federal government employees and Big Tech — saying he would have a “seven-year cooling off period” for “any employee of the FBI, CIA, NSA, DNI, DHS, or DOD” who headed to a Big Tech company that handles “vast quantities of U.S. user data.”
Note well that only in the last few weeks did Elon Musk fire Twitter’s legal counsel — former FBI general counsel James Baker — who played a role in the Trump–Russia collusion hoax and then left the FBI to go to Twitter to be its legal counsel. Baker is the personification of the Big Government–Big Tech revolving door that Trump vows to end.
Trump’s proposal is a seriously much-needed and quite-basic reform that should never have been needed in the first place. But the American Left’s addiction to working with Big Tech to silence dissent — aka conservatives and Trump supporters, not to mention Trump himself — has made this reform vital to the success of a functioning democracy.
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It is nothing less than startling that a former president of the United States and current candidate for a second term has to make the pledge that he did. But necessary it is, and Trump should receive congratulations for being unafraid to stand up and demand that one of the most fundamental rights of every American be respected and defended.
Trump is the only one who stands a chance of rescuing our country from all the corruption and evil working against us. His second term will be even greater, mainly because Trump now knows he has to be extremely careful to avoid snakes who talk the talk but do not walk the walk and will betray him and the rest of us.
No one has defeated him so far and that will not happen.
Do not be deceived. He is exactly the one and only one.
Too bad he buried this story with his silly trading card announcement.
It appears that part of his pledge is to severely restrict freedom to contract in certain situations. Not much of a free marketer there.
Bkmk
HE didn't "bury" anything. The media did.
The media didn’t force him to put out both announcements at approximately the same time.
For someone as experienced as the former president in playing the publicity game, he should have known how the one story would bury the other, precisely because of the media.
Approximately the same time or not, the media would have treated Trump the same.
Bullshit.
Maybe Trump Could Make a Set of Trading Cards with The amendments on them. Or give a speech like FDR did on the four Freedoms. Maybe a set of trading Card on “The Foes of Freedom” with Number one Nancy P? Hillary? Joe Biden? etc... That one I might buy.
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