Posted on 10/03/2024 5:16:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The most important exchange in Tuesday’s vice presidential debate has been almost entirely ignored by the corporate media. Not surprisingly, that’s because it makes Walz look like an authoritarian and a fool in one fell swoop:
J.D. Vance: The most sacred right under the United States democracy is the First Amendment. You yourself have said there’s no First Amendment right to misinformation. Kamala Harris wants to use …
Tim Walz: …[inaudible] threatening or hate speech …
J.D. Vance: … the power of government and Big Tech to silence people from speaking their minds. That is a threat to democracy that will long outlive this present political moment. I would like Democrats and Republicans to both reject censorship. Let’s persuade one another. Let’s argue about ideas, and then let’s come together afterwards.
Tim Walz: You can’t yell fire in a crowded theater. That’s the test. That’s the Supreme Court test.
J.D. Vance: Tim. Fire in a crowded theater? You guys wanted to kick people off of Facebook for saying that toddlers should not wear masks.
CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell: Senator, the governor does have the floor.
Tim Walz: Sorry.
Ok, let’s unpack what happened here. Walz challenged Vance on Trump’s questioning of the 2020 election results and Jan. 6, and Vance countered by saying that if Walz and his running mate, Kamala Harris, were so concerned about the fate of democracy they wouldn’t be so adamantly pro-censorship. Specifically, Walz has previously said, quite incorrectly from any legal or moral standpoint, that there’s no First Amendment right to “misinformation.”
Walz interjects to, near as I can tell, try and clarify that he was also talking about limiting “threatening” words or “hate speech.” Interestingly, I looked at multiple debate transcriptions, and none of them had this quite audible interjection...
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
Two whores, a knucklehead, and a statesman
And the statesman, aka JD Vance won the debate big time.
Americans will get the government they deserve
Vance stands up for prohibiting the feral government and Big Tech from censoring speech and the only retort that the Minnesota knucklehead could come with is “You can’t yell fire in a crowded theater.” What a maroon.
Two old hosed out whores years past their sell by date.
15% have a clue. 85%-——funny cat tiktoks. I could be off a point or two but you know it’s true.
People do care, at least the people that are thinking. Far too many simply await instructions to know what to care about - they’re unthinking. The instructors? Well, they’re not good people to say the least of course. They are Red Fascists.
Yes, Vance won and the Regime ghost ship is sinking!
The only bad thing about it is that the higher ups are desperate and will resort to do-or-die measures against Trump and Vance. Clearly, more assassination attempts are on the table in lieu of what we’ve seen so far.
Praying for Trump/Vance safety and for their families too.
I care. How about you?
You can yell fire in a crowded theater if there is a fire.
CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell: Senator, the governor does have the floor.
This exchange occurred after each candidate got his 2-minute time to speak. This was supposedly during the period where CBS said the candidates would "fact check each other."
Apparently, CBS News didn't mean it when they said the candidates would fact check each other, because they shut it down every time it started to happen.
They lied about the rules in order to get the debate on their network.
-PJ
The article clearly reports that the SCOTUS decision that used the old “Yell fire in a crowded theatre” example to support their decision that distributing leaflets to undermine the draft during wartime was not constitutionally protected speech was overturned in the 60’s.
Waltz’s assertion that”yelling fire in a crowded theatre” was the definitive “Scotus test” concerning constitutionally protected (or unprotected) speech is a monumental canard as SCOTUS has never decided such a case or one that was materially similar.
Winning the election will not be enough. Democrats must be rooted out of all institutions. And I’m not just talking about politicians.
No one cares because Walz is an empty suit and no leadership abilities, nor has Kam.
I asked my Gen-Z nephew, which is worse with his generation: ignorance or apathy.
He replied, “I don’t know, and I don’t care.”
“Yes.”
Unfortunately those 3 Stooges have a 50% chance of winning through cheating. Our nation is falling apart! In 33 days will know if the Republic survives or it’s time to purchase a headstone for America. Just thinking about it my stomach gets all in a knot. I so desperately want God to help us but deep inside I know this time he will not relent. So folks strap in because this is a battle between good and evil and if God does not help us then all this lost.
Best to control the three branches this January. Should that not happen, things will certainly get worse, but not entirely lost.
The totalitarian left and the New York Times believe they own the truth (All the news fit to print), and no one else has a right to believe and express any other. They believe that the First Amendment gives the(ir) Press exclusive rights granted to no other — and for many years, insisted the First Amendment designated them as the Fourth Estate above all the others — until others inquired where that is written — and they claimed it was implied by their own interpretation — that must never be questioned. That’s what the union school teachers were taught to teach — as the enlightened and “progressive” interpretation of the Constitution and its intent. That is the basis of the delusions the Left and the Press foster in the superiority of their exclusive ownership of the truth — which they feel no need to prove otherwise — as the(ir) political correctness entitled to suppress all the others.
But the truth is always being discovered from day to day, and moment to moment — as the work of all, and not just the self-designated and self-anointed few. Jesus referred to them as “the Pharisees and the Scribes.” They’re still the same today.
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