Posted on 03/13/2023 7:34:42 AM PDT by Twotone
Civil liberties have officially gone out of style, a phenomenon on full display at the Weaponization of Government Hearing at which I just testified.
The circus-like scene featured a ranking member calling two journalists a “direct threat,” a Stanford-educated former prosecutor who confused accusation with proof, and a Texas congressman, Colin Allred, who proudly held up the results of an adjudicated criminal case to argue against due process in another arena. When I asked Allred’s permission to point out that he’d just demonstrated that a proper forum for dealing with campaign abuses already existed in the court system, he basically told me to shut up.
“No,” he said, “you don’t get to ask questions here.”
I then had to keep my mouth shut as an elected official shifted to Dad mode to admonish me to “take off the tinfoil hat,” because “there’s not a “vast conspiracy,” by which he meant he apparently meant my last three months of work.
Allred then went on MSNBC, where my former friend Chris Hayes with a straight face suggested he didn’t see a “government angle” in either the Twitter Files or our testimony — both of which were more or less entirely about that issue — and Allred beamed in agreement, saying the discovery of Truthout and Ultra Maga Dog Mom on federal blacklists was just the FBI “pointing out that certain actions are probably Russian disinformation ops.” He also offered the ironic criticism that some people are “stuck in an information loop, in which you’re not allowing outside information in”:
At the hearing, Pee-Wee’s words of the day were clearly cherry-picked, money, and Elon Musk. Nearly every question asked of Michael Shellenberger and me involved our associations or motives.
(Excerpt) Read more at racket.news ...
Why not post the whole thing right here?
I’m always cut off at 300 words. Something about the html, but I’m not that computer savvy to figure out.
You don’t need civil liberties when you have elections rigged.
For those who actually read the articles, you might want to take a look at the comments. Its both sad and funny. The liberals/lefties are furious with the Democrats because now they have to do the “unthinkable” and agree with the Republicans. It just galls them that there was collusion between the government and big tech. It just galls them that there was never any Russia Collusion. It just galls them that most of what we heard about COVID was a lie. I could go on and on. But don’t think they are now converts to our side because they are not. They are incapable of learning from things like this. (Like Bill Maher)
Speech, like one’s ability to defend oneself’s life is a human right. To deny that is a sign of evil.
Democrats owned all the slaves in the US. They want them back. They are all, no exceptions, evil.
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The feminization of society since the 60s with its attendant emphasis on feeeeeelings instead of logic and reason is the cause of many institutions crumbling. We cannot have the Rule of Law if someone's feeeeelings get hurt in the process of sorting out what is best for “most of the people, most of the time.” Everything becomes, in the words of the great social analyst Christopher Lasch, a “war of all against all.”
This man Matt Taibbi is a brilliant thinker and writer. I hope he has a long and fruitful career.
Most of the slaves were owned by Jews. Something like 73% of them.
I don’t think there were that many Jews in the USA, particularly the South.
LOL.
Southern Democrats didn’t hate just negroes; they hated Republicans, Catholics and Jews as well.
Everybody hates the Jews.
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