During last year's Presidential campaign, the Democrats' artificial Regular Guy substitute Tim Walz publicly said that misinformation and hate speech were not protected speech. Walz was rightfully ridiculed on that matter, of course. But as time goes on it becomes clear how much of the political spectrum agrees with him, at least on some issues.
On First Amendment grounds these policies are dead in the water. But look at our establishment. Neither our Gaza policy nor Trump's curbing of free speech to protect same has caused as much weeping and gnashing of teeth as his actually quite rational disengagement from the Ukraine war. That's among the politicians and celebrities. How different are things on the grassroots/street level? Time will tell.
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Indeed - not so fringe with vaccines as confirmed here:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1896720120871002449
No idea why so many are onboard the Israeli bandwagon - they're wrong no matter who they are. To be anti-Zionist is not anti-Semitic but I believe the protesters should have laid off waving the Hamas flag.
Some 'regular guy'. Among other distasteful stuff he signed laws which expanded MinnesotaCare eligibility to illegal immigrants, provided free college tuition to illegal immigrants, provided driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. Walz also signed a law which allows the state to seize temporary custody of a child whose parents refuse to provide 'gender affirming care'. These are just a few I found - there are many more.
Thank goodness the First Amendment compels free speech. Under Angela Raynor basphemy laws have made a horrifying comeback in Britain. She's quoted as saying this a ‘crucial step’ in tackling anti-Muslim hate crime and bigotry. In truth, it is laying the groundwork for an official speech code that will make it even harder to discuss some of the most important, sensitive and politically fraught issues of our time.
What's that saying: 'Move fast and break things'? Trump is making some serious mistakes with pronouncements like this one. I agree with Alex Morey.
Sorry, I got caught up in discussing the links. We read the sad news this afternoon that Trump and Netanyahu refused the Arab League's offer to rebuild Gaza while allowing the people to stay. Guess who wants that real estate and why? Disengaging from the war in Ukraine is a good thing as is the very real possibility of the US disengaging from NATO, slowly at first then all at once. Only one of these two things would have been different had the other party won. It looks like regular Democrats are turning their backs on that particular madness. You're right that time will tell for the rest. Meanwhile, it's entertaining so long as we don't get nuked, which had the appearance in inevitability.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/wake-call-polls-show-half-democrat-voters-are-tired-far-left-politics
Jonas Salk accomplished something truly great with the polio vaccine. The unfortunate aftereffect was that it led to the expectation that all diseases could be cured and prevented in the same way. And indeed that they should be. Society increasingly regards even minor illnesses as intolerable. We've seen over the past few years where that can lead.
Waving the Hamas flag falls under the general category of "but if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao." That said, people like Miriam Adelson aren't trying to make protesters behave better. They're trying to quash the protests, or failing that to stigmatize them, and they'll always either find or make up something.
Taking custody away from parents for not providing gender affirming care is one of those indefensible parties that unfortunately crop up in some states where Democrats go unchallenged. As for all the benefits to illegal immigrants, I dunno. The simplest explanation is that he's trying to poach illegal immigrants in other states in order to curry favor with the moguls on the lookout for w-back labor.
Ah, Angela Rayner. I read that a couple of years back she took out a 5,000 pound loan for cosmetic surgery. A great leader for our times. As has been pointed out, the thing that DEI is really good at is ensuring that there will always be a demand for DEI. Another case in point.
Trump famously has no filter. That can be good when you see things that the general population has noticed and the political class hasn't, which has been the case with him. It's not so good when you're just parroting things that you're big ticket donors are telling you.
The ceasefire has completely been trashed now. It seems like that was always the plan. But it is better that we're hearing healthy questions about both Ukraine and NATO now. Biden's presidency represented the supreme rule of the expert class, in foreign affairs and domestic. But the experts have repeatedly shown themselves to be compromised at best. Of course all things being equal one does prefer not to get nuked.
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