An interesting article within Reuters points out how the Democrats in congress are working with the White House to craft legislation to make “social media companies accountable for the spread of disinformation.” Or put another way…. The Democrats are attempting to eliminate any ability of those who disagree with them; or worse yet, would outline their corrupt endeavors.
Ultimately this level of control is a reaction to fear. So the logical question is: what exactly are they fearful of? Perhaps the answer is in alignment with the reason Democrats have surrounded the capital with military guards, fence and barbed-wire.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congressional Democrats have begun discussions with the White House on ways to crack down on Big Tech including making social media companies accountable for the spread of disinformation on matters such as the U.S. Capitol riot and addressing the abuse of market power to harm corporate rivals.
The conversations, described by a lawmaker and congressional aides, have included the contentious topic of what to do with a measure called Section 230, part of a 1996 law called the Communications Decency Act, that shields social media platforms from lawsuits over much of the content posted by users. (read more)
Remember, with Democrats there’s always an aspect to their schemes that is never covered by media. To quote Jonathan Gruber: “we rely upon the supidity of the American voter.”
“we rely on the stupidity of the American voter.”
It may be wishful thinking on my part, but some unlikely friends, family and colleagues of mine appear to be waking up, are asking a lot of questions and are becoming ‘less stupid’….
In some cases, even committed Moonbats who barely talked to me during the Trump years are coming to me asking what the hell is going on…. I’ve told them for years that they astonish me in their willingness to vote against their own self interests — and the interests of the country they purport to love.
They’ve believed this is their father’s Democrat party. Now the masks are off and they are questioning. Relying on the stupidity of the American voter has paid off for Democrats in many respects — but the jig may be almost up…. Wake up, America…
All a moot point when then allow 22 million illegals to “vote”.
Exactly, by the time they wake up, the globalists will have replaced them with open borders migration. I fear there will be a great deal of “weeping and gnashing of teeth” but alas it will be too late.
Am experiencing the same @livefreeordieguy. re friends and family becoming less stupid. I would add, this not the “Republican” party, the sole male in my household of seven believed in during his lifetime. In one belief system, we are in the time of the “Kali Yuga,” wherein darkness rules. There is no way any political system, or selected official can fight against the coming of the light, that some call the “Great Awakening.” There is a very real battle going on in the spiritual world, As far as I can perceive. I am probably more confused than anyone on the planet right now because I have decided I am not taking a side in whatever anyone is fighting against or for whatever their schtick. Just going to retain friendships and relations with family whether I disagree with what I assume are opinions that might really be 180 degrees from mine. Too much disinformation about so many things and many are lost in the woods. Hard times humans are living in these days. Am going to extend a helping hand any way I can without imposing what I think and know to be true upon them. Many, like the character Al Pacino played in Scent of a Woman are blind. Stumbling around in the dark. Extend anyone you know some kindness. It’s a “hard rain that’s gonna fall” as per Bob Dylan. MAGA.
Unfortunately, too many Dems have no choice but to hold on to their crazy beliefs and often have to double down on incoherency just to protect their own egos.
Most of us are constitutionalists…so we don’t have to carry insane, politically driven policy positions. They, however, have no choice but to stay with their positions despite the facts because to question Climate Change or the Russia Hoax is to question their own “reason to be”. Their ego’s could not survive the truth…so they deflect it to ensure they can continue to exist.
That’s what we’re dealing with friends…people so locked into this WrongThink because their own being is at stake. It’s really that simple…that’s why you can’t even have a reasonable conversation and discuss “facts” with even the intelligent among them…there is just too much at stake…they just can’t admit that everything they thought or believed politically for the last 10-20-30-50 years has been totally wrong.
“Relying on the stupidity of the American voter has paid off for Democrats AND Republicons in many respects– but the jig may be almost up….Wake up, America..”
FIXED it.
THEY are going “all in” on all fronts, with Big Tech actually going “to the mattresses” in direct war with Countries (and they actually think they are going to win?).
The (think they are) Entitled are over reaching, openly displaying their contempt and disdain for”the masses”,…name any time in History when that has turned out well?
PDJT’s “approval rating” after Jan 6, 2020 was 41% , now its 59%!
Hey, Nanzi, Impeach him again, get his appoval rating over 70%!
They just can’t HELP themselves,…
The stunt they pulled with Australia is going to backfire highly, I think. They, meaning Facebook, has overstepped so much this time that I believe a reckoning is on the way. Zuckerberg is so prissy that I just want to tell him grow up. Google has already given in to the Aussie law, so he won’t have a choice. And once he loses against Australia, the dominoes will begin to topple world wide. Parker is up and running and Gab has greatly improved their service. It’s a pain to switch, but it is SO great to not have to see the posts by loonies that it’s worth the trouble.
I wish I could say the same for some of my family and friends. Far too many say that this “impression” is only because Trump brainwashed me. By the time they awaken from their dream, we will be fully a Socialist/Communist country with no hope of return to the time as a free republic. As for those who illegally accessed our country gaining citizenship, the Democrats need to be aware (since it obviously escaped them to date) that many of those same “undocumented” (you know, the ones who came to our country without going through the immigration process which was the legal means of entry) actually supported President Trump because he put people to work and helped on the assimilation end–not just a job but home ownership, real education, etc). Democrats seem oblivious to these points. They still believe that as long as they provide the “free” stuff, these people will remain loyal plantation dwellers. IOW, slavery 21st century style. They are counting on the immigrants to remain in lock step and not question their benefactors in Congress or the Democrat White House. They call it woke but they surely don’t want the American people or the immigrants to wake up to what it is that they do best!!
As you said Livefree, there may be some buyers remorse amongst those who actually voted for Biden/Harris. Their belief that the “new” administration would be a bigger and better version of the Obama administration was amazing. Well, they got bigger–more Executive Orders in a week than most have had in their entire administrations with way more economic impacts. I wish a news organization had a national debt-like clock which would show the number of jobs LOST in this administration. That would be interesting to see, especially if they push through that inflated and job-killing $15/hr minimum wage. Well over half the fast food jobs will vanish just like the pipeline jobs did–with the stroke of the pen. Kiosks and online order apps appeared when Bernie first pushed the $15/hr idea during the first Obama administration. I guess it would help with the obesity problem via fast food since the Dollar menus would become $10 Menus virtually overnight! The prices for goods and services will rise exponentially in a month or so following what has happened since the closing of the pipeline. In our area, gas prices have risen between 28 and 49 cents per gallon depending on what brand. That is in just under one month. By this time next year, many areas of the country may be facing shortages of food and other durable goods. Anyone who was incensed by the toilet paper/paper towel shortages of last spring/summer will be “pleased” to know that these shortages will expand to food items as well as other household goods. Thanks Joe! I anxiously await the bumper stickers that showed up on the cars of radicals in 2017 that said Don’t blame me, I voted for her! except these should say Don’t blame me, I voted for the real American President!!!!!
Kroger has the right approach. When Newsom and the idiot in Seattle mandated a $4 an hour “hazard” pay for grocery store workers, Kroger closed 4 stores. This will happen on a much larger scale with the minimum wage hike. Reality is that it will hurt the people it was meant to help the most.
But for the fact that the demonrats are about to flood the US with 11M uninformed aliens to vote in future elections. Rust never sleeps and the evil eye of Sauron watches over all.
It is good that those responsible for our present situation are “waking up” to the evil they wrought, but there are actions being taken now that will solidify the perpetuation of this evil regime.
Please stop using their number of 11 million. They have been using that number for 15-20 years.
Longer it was 11 million when i graduated high school, sadly many years back in 74, it may well be 50 million.
I agree that some of the more intelligent left leaning people are beginning to see the danger in the tyranny from their own group. The question is whether there is enough people with enough time to make a significant change. After all Trump won the election but lost the office through sophisticated deception. The central bank mafia has been at this game a long time and have sowed enough seeds of social tyranny as has been done many times in the past with great success. We conservatives must convince those with influence of the dangers from the corrupt shadow government before they gain the power to destroy us all.
And, the first step to admitting that something’s terribly wrong is to say “awwww, they ALL (politicians) do it.”
But, you know, in their minds they’re getting a clue.
a lot of people are waking up
Wish I could see that. It looks to me like everybody is hiding from what is clearly visible and in denial.
As I visit some of my other favorite web sites you’re correct. Don’t know if thats a feature or a bug as one would say. Then another praises the exposure done by game stop.
If they are hiding from it then it means they see it clearly … and fear it …
Worldwide,
in a lot of country’s a common question being asked is,” When are the Americans gunna make a move “?
Some countries are making their own moves. I’ve seen three countries start legal action or even just pointing out that Big Tech should not be shutting down free speech. Russia(believe it or not) Australia, and Poland. By the end of the week, who knows which others will find the courage to join in?
Dr. Shiva was on with Bannon this afternoon. Part of the discussion was big tech and government. Shiva was a Republican candidate for senator from MA. He lost in the primary. He and others are convinced that the outcome was rigged. Don’t get too lost in the election fraud discussion.
Here’s the fascism. Shiva said that he was taken down off Twitter when the MA Secretary of State complained directly to Twitter because Shiva had posted images of 4 emails Shiva and the MA SOS had exchanged. He says he found out that the MA SOS is a “trusted Twitter partner” and is able to make direct contact. The MA SOS also complained to an association of state election officials. He says basically that big tech gets its marching orders from government.
Start at 8:20.
https://pandemic.warroom.org/2021/02/18/dr-shiva-we-are-headed-toward-fascism/
^^^^^^ very eye-opening ^^^^^^
^^^^^^worth your time to listen^^^^^
Dr shiva is great to bad the only republicans that can get elected in mass are rinos like Charlie parker(Sara)and Willard mittens carpetbagger Romney check out shivas stance on the scamdemic
I spent 55 years in that communist state left in sept move to the great state of South Carolina am I’m not looking back.on a side note now I have no mortgage and have cut my property tax bill by 80%
Exactly where are the guardians of the constitution that swear an oath to protect and defend against ALL enemies foreign and domestic ?
Ya mean, like the SJW military?
Oh, they swore the oath all right,….but they had their fingers crossed, so it doesn’t count.
Swearing an oath is a matter of HONOR. For people who have no Honor, ‘breaking’ an oath, or professing a faith they do not have, or saying they support a policy position they don’t, means NOTHING to them.
They think WE are fools for BELIEVING them.
MIA and that includes SCOTUS.
Of course they rely on “the stupidity of the American voter”. Its all they have to get away with their failures and innumerable crimes. These are not exactly intelligent people although they are devious. In reality, other than the 50 or 60 million Libtards who vote for these miscreants, they’re relying more on the docility of the American voter rather than stupidity. Well over 80 million of us know exactly what they’re doing.
Ultimately, their fear based actions will simply serve to wake up more and more Americans and either they will be thrown out on their asses or their heads will be on pikes. Personally I’m rooting for the latter.
Sundance, this likely AG nominee for Biden is a racist. (Laura Ingraham tonight).
To all you lawyers out there, if she is confirmed, which is likely can every damn policy she adopts be challenged in SCOTUS.
She wants universal mail-in ballots, btw and it was pointed out she was behind the push the led to Dems getting it in many states.
McConnell spent 4 years blocking candidates that needed Senate approval for Trump choices. Biden brings in racists, Marxists and anti American scum and McConnell doesn’t give any resistance, he could care less.
Hopefully President Trump will start a new party so we don’t have to deal with the turtle and other phony Republicans in the Senate and Congress.
Universal mail in ballots, and other election measures intended to cement the fraud, CAN BE fought at the STATE level.
The Federal government has NO Authority, beyond naming the date of Federal elections.
The States CAN tell the Fed to pound sand, and there is NOTHING the Feds can do about it.
If they try the old canard, of THREATENING to withhold Federal funding, the States should challenge, and the Feds will back down.
Federal government really doesn’t have nearly as much power as it has taken on, and we need to STRENGTHEN the spine of State Legislatures, Govenors and A.G.’s to stand up to Federal over reach.
Nice of you to hold on to such fallacies.
In case you haven’t noticed, our states are complicit in the theft and uphold communist laws only.
I would hope that every person would realize this immutable fact.
Many many words have been spoken in various states, yet very few have actually produced results.
This in NOT to say there are not patriotic Americans that work in the various levels of state government, but they are not in the positions that matter at this point in time.
Until such time as there are those in place in the positions that are effective, we will continue to have word games abounding.
In essence, the states are not going to do much of anything right now.
Obviously, you’re not in Florida.
This biblical allusion at the beginning of the film introduces vital ideas regarding man’s place in the world. The passage from Ecclesiastes 7:13 praises God as ultimate creator. This idea is usurped throughout the film when humans take on the role of god, altering a persons’ genes to create an idealized society. This quote immediately encourages us to critique the society in Gattaca
GATTACA
anyone who may not have seen the movie, I recommend it. The movie is about the reality of a engineered society, and exposes the threat such a society represents; that one’s self worth cannot be measured by their genes, or what science they prefer. The movie is about humanity, and the importance of the human spirit. Clearly, the movie is not consistent with many solid principles of the creation truth, but it “explores” the subject matter quite well as it relates to humans who obey and are controlled by a flawed tightly controlled regulated society. It’s one of my favorites…excellent writing…and the acting is pretty good too….No, it’s not going to win any awards from Christian critics, but does make important points without penalizing your imagination either.
and this one, from the same movie (GATTACA)
If you are told you are perfect, what is there to aspire to? Jerome is an unhappy example of a man given everything. Everything was expected of him, everything should have been possible. And yet, if that is so, what is there to enjoy or savour? Jerome should have been able to succeed at whatever he wanted to, even without much effort, so strong is his genetic makeup. It is interesting that when Vincent goes on his mission, Jerome kills himself. It is as though he was fueled during the film by Vincent’s passion and determination. He enjoyed the challenge of it. Unchallenged as he surely must have been with his genetic disposition, there may well have been much to fight for. Coming second in the swimming championships devastates him because for the first time he realizes he is not perfect. Perfection is a blessing and a curse: something that everyone aspires to and that, once achieved, kills the desire that feeds aspiration.
the radicals are indoctrinating the masses to assume a perfection that isn’t just unrealistic in its final form, but it dishonest and flawed in its suggestion…One can understand this and apply it liberally to the mindset taken up from the corrupt left mainstream …they actually are starting to believe that such a uptopia is possible….they are being led to believe this because it “works”….certainly no one would refuse the promise of perfection eh?
and yet, the movie, as does all of human experience, prove such a promise is not only a lie, but truly harmful and dangerous.
We are seeing such a society being designed.
are you a valid, or an invalid?
While you are on the topic of the perfectibility of mankind, I would suggest reading Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis, if you have not had the opportunity to do so yet. I have an inkling that you would enjoy it.
This impulse to improve upon humanity is as old as civilization.
Jacobins attempting to remake people and society during the French Revolution, the concept of the new soviet man, on and on, stretching both into the far past and right up to the current era.
Truly, there is nothing new under the sun.
I will do that…TY.
GBA!
Within a month about a year ago all local news sites in my city shut down comments on their news articles.
The problem was the conservative readers would destroy the narrative of their news articles with a few intelligent and hilarious words.
Same here in CT. Two of teh four sites used to permit comments. Then, poof right before COVID, they took down their comment sections.
Yep, same occurred in the Bay Area. Conservatives, even though shackled to an extent by Disqus, generally destroyed the “progressives” on a daily basis. Then, funny thing happened. Disqus was gone, taken over by a google application of some kind. Comments were heavily edited, etc. The comment board traffic went down by 60-70%, which was the desired result.
There is nothing a Democrat hates more than morality except liberty, and free speech.
And the younger generations are being taught that at an early age. I had just such a discussion with the young adult son, he’s 28, of a good friend. We were talking about the cold weather crisis on the Texas grid system. He spouted every leftist talking point spewed by MSNBC from the “evil” of fossil fuels and man made global warming/cooling/climate change, to the coming mandated glory of electric cars, solar panels, and windmills. Sprinkling in some hate for Ted Cruz going to Mexico, Red State mismanagement, ad nauseam.
So after I went over each of his leftist assumptions with specifics, he became more agitated because he couldn’t factually refute my arguments and could only defend his with leftist bs rehtoric.
Being a sarcastic ahole who doesn’t suffer fools trying to blow smoke up my backside I ended our little talk with “class dismissed”.
Out the room he stormed. I just shrugged my shoulders at his dad. I wouldn’t talk to a 10 year old that way, but he’s not 10 years old, at least chronologically anyway. His dad just sighed and said he’s into that SJW activist thing, at least he cares about something.
I said I hope he grows up someday. He’s not stupid, he just “knows” things that aren’t true.
So many of these young people “know” things that aren’t true. When I was in school we were always taught to have facts to back up our assertions. Indeed, almost every class required us to participate in ways that made us dig up facts, whether it was in class debates, counted as part of our grades, or in papers that required a minimum number of acceptable sources.
I miss fact based life.
I believe our President Trump when he said “there is a coup taking place right in front of us.”
My question is “Who determines what ‘disinformation’ is?”
If I say “Life begins at conception”, is that disinformation?
If I say “Open borders will create a burden upon our economy”, is that disinformation?
If I say “Focusing on social justice over combat readiness will weaken our military”, is that disinformation?
If I say “Man caused climate change is nothing but a hoax.”, is that disinformation?
It is a very very slippery slope these democrat socialists are on, but I suspect they know that already and have a plan to deal with our dissent. Keep your powder dry boys. They have taken our guns yet.
Those are forbidden, defeatist, verbalized thought crimes. Check with your local Ministry of Truth Commissar first, and don’t let it happen again or it’s off to Deprogram Camp.
Yes Comrade.
They will cling to their leftist beliefs until they hear the click of the gas pellets being released in the showers at the camps by the even more radical leftists purging their ranks.
You cannot co-exist with dems any longer. There are very few constitutional dems(Turley, Greenfield et al) who will stand up to their leadership. Most just fall in line, believe all the BS automatically and do what they’re told. A rino is 98% worthless in fighting a party willing to cheat, break the law, and ignore our constitution–
They better be in fear….WE ARE COMMING FOR YOU COMMUNIST SCUM!
i’m still livid over the fact the coup succeeded. When they awaken to what really happened in 2020 maybe then we can mutually come up with a remedy.
The coup happened before our eyes because phony Republicans refuse to do anything and the Republicans in those states sold out for money. The court system is corrupt as we have plenty of evidence but no court would hear it or adjudicated.
And the million dollar question: “Who is going to get to decide what is and isn’t disinformation?” Is anything against the state’s narrative considered disinformation? Do we make a law that tells big tech they are responsible if they publish that “disinformation” thereby ensuring they don’t allow any users to post facts and narratives that go against the state? Welcome to AmeriKa.
https://www.coreysdigs.com/health-science/covid-19-pt-5-psychologists-scientists-and-the-cia-tell-us-fear-is-the-real-killer/?fbclid=IwAR0pec6CNeHpC8lF7URmVf5YHAit8tYNOVik3nBnoA78pmdRY9FahdZHOn8
Fear is the mind killer…why so many “intentional” mixed messages that have basically driven USA’ers insane for the past year?
Exactly this!!!
(Listen to weds episode of quite frankly podcast where he interviewed Corey and they ran thru this if you don’t want to read the whole thing -it is VERY worth your time)
[Also, a very long time ago I posted here as “I won’t back down”
So hi again CTH frens!]
They like the Big Tech tyranny – but it must be subservient to corruptocrat tyranny at all times.