There is global criticism of the new anti-free speech law in Scotland, including a dare from author J.K. Rowling to arrest her for her criticism of transgender policies. The law is so bad that even the British Prime Minister, in a country previously denounced for attacks on free speech, has demurred from supporting the Scottish law. Now Humza Yousaf, first minister of Scotland, has doubled down in supporting the draconian law while misrepresenting its language.Yousaf bizarrely claimed that critics have ignored that the legal threshold of “the new offences is very, very high indeed. Your behaviour has to be threatening or abusive and intended to stir up hatred.” It is almost comical in its absurdity. No, a standard based on “stirring up hatred” is not very very high. Moreover, the showing can be based on a showing that stirring up hatred was “likely” rather than “intended.”
In signature form, Yousaf reportedly then lashed out at critics like Rowling and Joe Rogan as “right-wing actors” who have “[no] sympathy for the fact we are bringing in legislation that is clamping down on hatred.” He insisted that this is merely an extension of the fight against “disinformation.”
The critics include virtually the entirety of the free speech community. Rowling’s objections to transgender policies are rooted in her feminist principles and the concern over the erasure of the gains of women generally.
By declaring opposing views as hateful, many on the left like Yousaf seek to shutdown any debate through a chilling effect on speech. Many do not want to face the cancel campaign or abuse directed against Rowling, who has the means and the following to weather this storm.
The Scottish law is a disgrace to the nation, which once distinguished itself in the Scottish Enlightenment as a haven for free thought.
The rewrite of Braveheart is going to be a real disappointment when Wallace asks what Scots will do without their freedom and Yousef steps forward to accuse him of “disinformation” and delivers him over to the English:
OT – an article in Politico, published on its website yesterday afternoon, discussed tactics being used by the DNC to undermine RFK’s campaign. These tactics include the use of trolls to plant fake stories on the Internet and picketing his campaign events. The title is something like “Democratic Party Tactics against RFK Rattle His Campaign”. I’m sure there will be a protest from the MSM against this undemocratic conduct.
edwardmahl,
Sounds like election interference to me.
Sounds like the DNC to me. Typical.
Profiles in courage.
A modern “BraveHeart”
1984 is alive and well, and living in Scotland.
Scotland the Brave has become Scotland the Coward.
No true Scotsman would submit to this.
Turn in your kilts for Tutus.
I find Professor Turley’s essays invaluable and enlightening, including this one. He often refers to to free speech issue being worse in Europe than in the US, which for the moment, I agree with. I submit that there is only one reason for that – the fact that the current US Supreme Court majority is conservative. If and when the supreme court majority becomes liberal/progressive (like one more Biden term), the right to free speech in the US will disappear so quickly that you won’t know what hit you. We will equal or surpass Europe in censorship beginning the day that majority becomes reality. And when free speech is gone from the US, the whole world will suffer the consequences.
Mollie’s Dad, you are scarily right. If Biden wins and they take the senate we are in big trouble. With no Manchin and Sinema to fight for the filibuster they will end that, vote to pack the Court, add two blue states and the 1st and 2nd Amendments will be gone before Harris even inherits the WH.
Sadly, hatred is part of the human condition. Always has been and always will be. We cannot legislate it away with such absurd, tyrannical laws.
Your behaviour has to be threatening or abusive and intended to stir up hatred.
Arrest that man! And anyone in the parliament that voted in favor of this!
Scotland Marred
The American Founders declared constitutional rights, freedoms, privileges, and immunities to be natural and God-given.
That which is natural and God-given is universal.
The Constitution and Bill of Rights are universal.
The universe includes Scotland, and by all logic and reason, Scotland must enjoy and codify the natural and God-given rights, freedoms, privileges, and immunities revealed in and conferred by the Constitution of the United States of America.
Subjugated and putrid nations that reject freedom and accept Karl Marx’s motto, “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,” must, in turn, accept Karl Marx’s “dictatorship of the proletariat,” central planning, control of the means of production, redistribution of wealth, social engineering,” and the entire Communist Manifesto.
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“Well than, O’er shooes, o’er boots. And In for a Penny, in for a Pound.”
– “Canterbury Guests,” Thomas Ravenscroft, 1695
Britain–against the advice of intellectual types like Churchill and countess–invited weirdly diverse types in, weren’t required to respect Western custom as a condition. Some of them have a mandate of conquest imbedded in their culture, want to smother critics, so now they’re showing their strength, having achieved positions of power, intent on creating yet another horrible facsimile of their own culture. All totally predictable. A nightmare coming true.
Some of them have a mandate of conquest imbedded in their culture . . .
They call it demographic jihad. The collapsing European fertility rate aids them in that quest.
Nabi and NotSoOld: Oh so true. Reminds me of that old movie, Tora Tora Tora!, where each side in the War (Japan, U.S.) invoked its own “God” and believed that its own respective God would guide and lead it to victory.
The fuss over her transgender views is a false flag. It’s Islam–Sharia– that this legislation has been forwarded to empower. In fact, if she were criticizing Islam she’d be getting serious death threats as well as, in the wake of this act passing, having to deal with a predacious legal industry–already drifting bonkers sociopath– scenting blood in the water.
Obama, the Feminazis, illegal aliens, RINOs, and the Global Communist Deep Deep State are pervasively removing and “replacing” Europeans in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and America, while children in those nations are drugged, propagandized, and indoctrinated.
Illegal invasion, abortion, and attrition are the weapons that the populations in those countries are not allowed to acknowledge as such.
Americans et al. must not only spare the enemy; Americans et al. must admit and assimilate the enemy.
That feckless “defense posture” must change radically.
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“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
– Declaration of Independence, 1776
I posted the following on the other thread today, before this thread went up. But it really applies to this thread, and it encapsulates the gender insanity that we are currently experiencing from the Left.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/03/us-news/trans-basketball-player-who-hurt-rival-was-once-suspended-for-ogling-teammate-report/
(a) The player previously couldn’t excel in boys’ sports so he cynically transferred to girls’ sports where he could beat his competitors; (b) he used that fiction to enter girls’ locker rooms (even while sporting a beard) and ogle bare-breasted girls, humiliating them by saying this like “oooh, titties”; (c) he physically injures the girls he’s playing against, being as he can because he’s male; and (d) the stupid media still refers to him as “she”
Lin – interesting points all around. I’m thinking there must be some cognitive dissonance because the Muslims families in Michigan are definitely not down with this left-wing gender insanity when it comes to their own kids.
The ‘Scot’ is actually a Muslim so it’s not hard to figure what he was up to when he got that bill passed. Fatal sign that few have the guts to point that out in Britain. The transgenderism is just incidental to his objectives. Nobody’s waking up fast enough so count us on the wrong side of Darwin.
Professor Turley writes, “By declaring opposing views as hateful, many on the left like Yousaf seek to shutdown any debate through a chilling effect on speech.”
For some, the cure for perceived “disinformation”— is to diss information that offends you, through censorship or criminalization.
Interstingly, Yousaf is a Pakistani Muslim, and Islamic belief says this: “Evil speech interferes with the discovery of truth and thus violates human dignity. Therefore, restricting evil speech is justifiable on freedom of expression.”
“Allah likes not the uttering of unseemly speech in public, except on the part of one who is being wronged … (Ch.4:V.49)”
https://www.reviewofreligions.org/2342/freedom-of-conscience-and-expression-in-islam/
It may be that he genuinely believes such restrictions are righteous. But it is the, “except on the part of one who is being wronged” part (supra), that concerns me…..
The UK Health System is in near collapse with Public Health Scotland being a prime example of the failures of socialism. So it is
curiouspredictable that Humza Yousaf, the present PM of Scotland would make Woke Dogmas his priority and more important than correcting actual problems that are hurt the citizens. Perhaps he is Biden’s mini-me.🤖
More than 2,000 operations cancelled at the last minute in February
More than 2,000 operations were cancelled at the last minute in February, statistics show. There were 24,268 operations scheduled to take place in February, the latest month available, according to Public Health Scotland (PHS). This is 12.7% higher than the 21,536 planned in February 2023…..
Scottish Conservative shadow health secretary, Dr Sandesh Gulhane, said: “These appalling figures once again expose the monumental failures of Humza Yousaf’s flimsy recovery plan for our NHS. “It has completely failed to remobilise frontline services and thousands of patients are still seeing operations cancelled at the last minute. That will not only harm them physically but mentally as well.
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/politics/4937919/more-than-2000-operations-cancelled-at-the-last-minute-in-february/
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Humza Yousaf’s political future looks bleak. DNC should take note but they wont. The cult is strong in them
Humza Yousaf faces general election Armageddon as new poll predicts SNP lose majority of its MPs
A new YouGov MRP poll predicts that Scottish Labour will comfortably become the biggest party in Scotland at the next general election, with the first minister losing almost 30 seats.
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/humza-yousaf-faces-general-election-32504784
I was thinking of visiting Scotland this summer. That destination is off my list as of now.
Humza Yousaf is full of beans.
Every American should use caution (and a search engine) when contemplating a visit to any foreign nation. Most, if not all, European countries have laws relating to speech, some of them quite harsh. Germany has gone so far as to arrest lawyers for violating speech laws while in court defending speech violators.
“That destination is off my list as of now.”
First Disney World. Now Scotland.
Keep it up, Woke fascists. You’re saving me a lot of money.
J.k. Rowling, to her credit, highlighted the chilling nature of this law. And yes, she did it from the focus of protecting the rights of women from dysphoric and fetish driven men.
Interestingly, but not necessarily surprisingly, none of the major women’s groups supported Rowlings. They are completely on board with men defining what a woman is, their right to become a woman merely by declaring it to be so, and their right to women’s spaces and opportunities.
Many of the news reports have highlighted how Scotland does not have a first amendment like we do. This is correct, but when it comes to gender lunacy our first amendment does not seem to be recognized. Try going on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, or before the NYT’s or WP and telling them that men cannot become women, cannot have babies, and that chest feeding isn’t the same as breast feeding. That wouldn’t go over well. While they are not government entities, the same would be true if you made those statements before any democrat politician.
So this issue is more than about freedom of speech, it’s about placing objective reality above gender lunacy.
I’m convinced that most of the people seeking to limit rights of free expression simply do not understand that the right reflects a fundamental understanding of human nature. Hate and disinformation are countered most effectively by more, rather than less, speech.
I’ve been following all of this for awhile, as I’m sure many of us here have, and what is happening in Europe is insane, particularly in Britain, Germany, and Scotland. One would think with their history they’d recognize the parallels with what lead to WWII, but alas, we no longer teach history, anywhere. Progressive, globalist, fascism has infiltrated education across the globe. It is frightening to me that we could have another world war and America would enthusiastically be on the side of fascism this go round. Troubling, indeed. We cannot take another four years of this, we won’t survive. Vote the dems out, at EVERY level, and demand accountability and transparency from them.
YES It needs to be a thorough fumigation of each level of government from local dog catcher to the white house and every niche of bureaucracy in between. It is not the elected officials as much as the unelected bureaucrats that will doom this nation.
@whimsicalmama and Upstate too
That’s the thing, IMO: if we do manage to get the dems out in November, we absolutely must sever ties with the UN, the WEF, the WHO, and every other globalist organization that has it’s tendrils choking us. We did not vote for these elitists with whom the modern DNC is thick as thieves, and we have to kick them to the curb, for good. I don’t care if we stand on our own; we can take it, and then some, as has often been the case in the past. i don’t care how angry our actual freedom vs. their theoretical freedom makes them.
John Kerry’s idiotic princess daughter recently and basically stated that her unelected a**, and other unelected, wealthy a**es will happily impose even *harsher* measures against us than covid in the name of their climate boondoggle. It blows my mind that modern dem voters do not seem to realize that they are basically being bullied and subjugated. So many countries have nukes at this point; we will not survive another world war. We are blinded by comfort in the 21st century, and I’d sure love it if we don’t end up killing one another over idiocy manufactured by elitist morons.
https://tinyurl.com/zbscxav3
James,
Well said.
It seems like every time people have gone down this road, they say,
“It will be different this time.”
As it will be they who are in charge. And as we have seen in history, they end up being the very evil they proclaim to be fighting against.
Agree, James.
But there are those who for petty reasons will vote for a third-party Presidential candidate, increasing the danger of another Biden disaster despite the fact that such a disaster could lead to the end their most important desires: freedom of religion, speech, and the press.
@S. Meyer
Yes. That is the peril – the ignorant voter that seems to think the things they enjoy about their lives grow in an orchard somewhere, and they can just pluck it at their leisure. Left AND right, it’s on both sides; we have become a very lazy, very sleepy populace, all around, in the age of social media and instant gratification. Heaven help us, the rest of us have quite a job to do. Electing/defending Trump is far and away the lesser of two evils at this point. Breaks my heart that it’s come down to that. But I don’t think RFK is really a viable alternative, though I hope he steals votes from Biden; he would also be another metamorphosis of the unspeakable damage Obama has done to this country, and Obama did, without question. I remind you all I foolishly voted for Obama the first time, not realizing the full intent of his words. His second term made it clear, and it was too late by then. My apologies to every freedom loving person.
“Obama the first time, not realizing the full intent of his words. His second term made it clear, and it was too late by then. My apologies to every freedom loving person.”
James. the second term has its dangers, for with no ability to run for a third term, the President can pull out all the stops. Obama did that, but that tendency must be recognized before the second term. We saw Obama’s tendencies before his first presidency in his books, the people he associated with, and where he came from. We could see early on what Obama was from his shadow: his deflections and misdirection.
@S. Meyer
So right. This was probably clear to anyone that read Obama’s book, but I was unfortunately not one of those. The fervor was so high at the time, I don’t know if it would have mattered in meaningful terms, anyway. I recall perfectly well how people treated Sarah Palin (was not a fan of hers, I’m not a conservative, but she has not deserved what has been done to her) back then, and it has only gotten worse. Exponentially, catastrophically worse. I recall the intraoffice conversations going on around me at the time, in a blue state, that basically turned my stomach and made me embarrassed to be in the room with such cretins (the focus was entirely on their own prejudice, not the future of the country, blue or red); that was 12 years ago. And here we are now. I would love to see an example of an independently thinking, modern, blue voter. There don’t seem to be any. I may be mistaken, but I would not be surprised, though again, happy to be proved wrong, if even the Professor votes for RFK over Trump out of some misguided loyalty to something that ceased to exist years ago.
“I’m not a conservative”
James, according to John, Say, I am not one either, and he is probably correct based on his and some other definitions of what constitutes a conservative. All these descriptive ideologies are in flux, meaning different things to different people. It is not good enough to say one’s ideology. Policy would be a better way for individuals to understand one another.
I was born a Democrat but voted independently. I became a Republican to support a specific individual. I then changed to independent only again to turn Republican to add my voice to the nomination of Donald Trump. I will probably remain Republican while he is in office, and then I will see. I will never be a Democrat again and likely will never vote for a Democrat candidate whether I like him or not. The Democrat Party of today is too dangerous. It must be destroyed and rebuilt so that it no longer is a party of fascist anti-speech fanatics against the voices that differ from their own while they knowingly lie.
The Constitution is our anchor, and Amending the Constitution is our method of its evolution. Those who prefer SCOTUS, Congress, or the President to change the Constitution to get what they want do not politically reflect the type of people I side with. I also believe in federalism, where the states act as laboratories and adopt policies that are best for them. I can live with most laws even if I disagree with them as long as those two things are adhered to.
@S. Meyer
I hear you, but excepting a couple of times, to vote in primaries in my former state which had closed primaries, I haven’t ever registered with either major party in my entire voting life. So, 🤷🏽♂️
SM, when you start talking about definitions of fundimental terms being in a state of flux – you empower the left.
You say the constitution is our anchor – how can it be any kind of anchor at all if the meaning of the words within it are in a constant state of flux.
You wish to shift to policies – but that is just an effort to avoid the problems caused by failing to anchor the meaning of words like conservative.
What it means to be a republican or a democrat IS in a state of flux – and that is legitimate, because political parties are not defined by ideology or policy. They chose the policies they seek to advance and they choose differently over time.
One of the reasons that Turley is being slowly red-pilled is because the meaning of liberal and democrat has shifted such that it no longer includes him.
The democrat part of that I can understand, but conservative, and liberal have meanings independent of political party and ideology – though they are also used as labels that are divorced from their meaning.
I am a proud liberal – I am someone who embraces individual liberty as a principle.
In the shifting sands of word mangling the correct label for that today is libertarian.
Conservatism is NOT an ideology, it is a recognition of the fundamental fact that most new ideas FAIL. That 9 times out of 10 the framework of the past is superior to any new ideas.
But 9 times out of 10 is NOT 100% of the time. Conservative does NOT mean we must stay were we are, or that we must go backward. It does mean we should be skeptical of new ideas – especially those imposed by force that will be difficult to undo once imposed. It does not means we must reject new ideas solely because they are new.
The free market means that anyone can try whatever new ideas they wish – most fail, but those who succeed reap the benefits of that success – rinse repeat. The net effect is that even though failure is far more common than success because the process can be conducted so freely and rapidly – the net result is improvement – often rapid improvement.
Government is different – As Reagan said mans ideal is the ultimate in human freedom consistent with order.
We can have chaos in free markets – it is self regulating there. We can not have chaos in government – in the use of force.
The failure we are seeing today IS exactly that – the degeneration fo government into the chaotic use of force.
That is one of the deep flaws of the modern left – they seek to destroy the entirety of the western enlightenment that produced the world that we have today, But they are entirely clueless about replacing it. Everything is Chaos.
The “What is a Women ?” attack on the left is damning. It exposes an inherent contradiction – not just with reality – but with their ideology itself. While proclaiming that identity is subjectively determined – there ideology is still founded on the conception that their are oppressed and oppressor identities. As many people have effectively demonstrated the ideology collapses into incoherence when the oppressors identify as oppressed.
JK Rowling is taking a conservative stance – that Woman actually means something.
But idiocy like the scottish law collapses if those being targeted by it merely identify as members of the oppressed group. It Speech that instills insecurity in a member of an oppressed group is a hate crime. Membership in an oppressed group is subjective, Therefore even the effort to stop hate speech is itself hate speech if those uttering hate speech self identify as an oppressed minority.
“SM, when you start talking about definitions of fundimental terms being in a state of flux – you empower the left.”
John, one has to be realistic. Word flux exists, as Shakespeare proves in his quote, ” The stink of a rose.” Do you wish to deny such a change in meaning? You won’t use the word fu*ck because it is improper today, and if you did, you would be censored. It was a word used years ago. https://www.dictionary.com/e/origin-of-the-f-word/
Is that empowering the left?
“You say the constitution is our anchor – how can it be any kind of anchor at all if the meaning of the words within it are in a constant state of flux. ”
That’s precisely the point. While words may change, the Constitution, ideally, should remain stable. This is why we have Constitutional Amendments, which serve as a mechanism to adapt the Constitution to the changing times, without altering its fundamental principles. If all we had to do was change the meaning of words, these Amendments would be unnecessary.
“You wish to shift to policies – but that is just an effort to avoid the problems caused by failing to anchor the meaning of words like conservative.”
John, I understand your inclination to shift the discussion to policies. However, this is merely an attempt to evade the issues that arise from failing to anchor the meaning of words like ‘conservative.’ By defining such terms clearly, we can ensure a more informed and productive policy debate.
The only way to anchor such words is with explanation and policy. Do the liberal or conservative parties in England mean the same as they do in the United States?
“What it means to be a republican or a democrat IS in a state of flux – and that is legitimate, because political parties are not defined by ideology or policy. They chose the policies they seek to advance and they choose differently over time.”
Just like political parties change, the words that define the parties change as well. You cannot deny that. It may not be good, but we must learn to live with it.
“I am a proud liberal ”
So am I, but I don’t want others to think I am a progressive. Bill Buckley had a solution that didn’t take. Capitalize the L in liberal for those proclaiming to be today’s liberal and use a small l for those talking about classical liberal ideas.
“Word Flux exists”- In poetry, in fiction.
Not in law, not in non-fiction.
The meaning of a report of history changes if you try to use a different meaning than that of those who wrote it.
The meaning of law and constitution changes – without changing the law or the constitution if the meaning of the words it is written in change.
You can not have the rule of law if the meaning of a law or constitution changes without actually changing the law or constitution.
Amazining I have very little problem understanding shakespeare – even though there is nearly 500 years since written. And that is poetry and fiction.
I would note that techni9cal jargon – science,. law, math engineering – is a deliberate effort to assure that a description does NOT change meaning over time.; The language is supposed to mean the same thing forever.
>>“Word Flux exists” >- In poetry, in fiction.
>Not in law, “
It shouldn’t but that statement is constantly challenged in the Supreme Court where they try to interpret the words in the Constitution and get it wrong. From then on such ‘Word Flux’ persists.
“The meaning of a report of history changes if you try to use a different meaning than that of those who wrote it.”
Yes, that is why Howard Zinn’s book on American history is one many consider inaccurate. I so happen to agree.
“Amazining I have very little problem understanding shakespeare – even though there is nearly 500 years since written. And that is poetry and fiction.”
But, John, would you tell your wife she stinks like Shakespeare did when he described the smell of a rose?
“While words may change, the Constitution, ideally, should remain stable. ”
Which is only possible if we read the meaning of the words exactly the same as when it was written.
Though I again would note we are able ot understand Shakespeare – the meaning of words – outside those abused by the left, has not changed that much .
“John, I understand your inclination to shift the discussion to policies.”
Please read what I wrote.
Liberal and consrvative parties in england are misuse of words as label – just as democrat and Republican in the use.
Are democrats democratic ? They appear to be ever more fascist.
If you convert conservative to a party label – it can mean anything. or nothing at all.
“Please read what I wrote.”
John, with so many ideas flying around, it is difficult to respond to you adequately. Still, your statement, “Liberal and consrvative parties in england are misuse of words as label – just as democrat and Republican in the use.” proves my point.
The discussion revolved around your statement: “SM, when you start talking about definitions of fundamental terms being in a state of flux – you empower the left.” I didn’t disagree that the misuse of words has empowered the left. However, to communicate, one needs to understand that the meaning of some words (to the general public) changes with time.
The Tea Party – which is the movement that gave birth to MAGA, was a republican splinter group that staked out the position that they would rather see republicans LOSE elections than elect RINOs.
At the time the majority in the republican party thought as you do that was Petty.
While as You do I would advise Republicans to embrace their non-MAGA members – who can win elections in blue or purple places.
Republicans should stand behind the Chris Christies, the Larry Hogans and the Susan Collin’s. Just as they should reject the Liz Chenney’s – not because she is outside the republican party – but because Wyoming is NOT a neo-con state. If Cheeny can win a house seat in Massachusetts – Republicans should embrace that.
At the same time – Contra your claims – third parties, as well as insurgents within the party are important.
There would be no MAGA but for the early Tea Party which actually Cost the GOP seats in the house, until Republicans came to terms with a rising new force.
Hillary would have won the 2016 election – but for Jill Stein.
Trump would have won the 2020 election but for libertarians.
I am fine with that. Biden has been an abysmal president.
Sometimes people need to learn through failure.
Biden’s presidency is producing ALOT of learning.
I have far less dread than most here – left or right.
The end of the world is NOT nigh.
I fully expect short of a miracle Trump will win in November.
But if he does not – 4 more years of Demented Joe will assure a red tidal wave.
It is hard to gauge if Desparate measures by Democrats will succeed in swaying enough voters for Biden to win.
It is indesputable that demographic Trends are running strongly against Democrats. The very same trends that were supposed to ensure a permanent democratic majority are now their bane.
Today there are just not enough post graduate white women to secure a blue electorate in the future.
How long will it be before the majority of Hispanics are republican ? A year ? a decade ? regardless, it is happening.
It will take very little longer before the majority of Black Males are republican. some polls have black males running 40% republican.
People learn more from failure unfortunately than success.
I am still trying to gauge what is actually going on with Generation Z. But there are many signs that the Woke generation is being followed by the most conservative generation in our history.
No matter what the pendulum is swinging away for the woke left.
I do expect political violence. I expect it from an increasingly desperate left as they lose power.
“The Tea Party – which is the movement that gave birth to MAGA, was a republican splinter group that staked out the position that they would rather see republicans LOSE elections than elect RINOs.”
John, I agree, but such considerations are a matter of degree and circumstances. I would target one RINO, maybe more, but I would try to avoid the worst consequences. In the present case, we are dealing with a presidency. Obama should never have been elected President the first time based on his history and what was known. Unfortunately, he was elected, and when running for his second term, one could see an existential threat to the nation if he won that second term. Too many people dilly-dallied and didn’t vote or voted for a third party. We got the devastating results of a fascist-style President who weaponized the bureaucracy. When through with his second term, people were willing to provide the country with his third term, Hillary Clinton, aided by those who continued to dilly-dally and again didn’t vote or voted for a third party.
Fortunately, despite those who held your position, there was enough sanity for a Trump win. Whether Trump was the most outstanding or reasonable President didn’t matter; the country improved and moved away from the fascism Obama provided. Destroying a nation takes less time than building it up, so some seek refuge in their decision by saying Trump didn’t do enough and still refused to vote against the Obama policies when Biden ran.
We have seen enough destruction to our nation from the left. I don’t think the damage can be repaired, but now we have a new election where the choice will be Obama’s fourth term under Biden, or we vote for Trump no matter what pains that causes us. We know Trump will move in a good direction. He is the best we have. Take note of who and what is attacked by the fascists who follow Obama-Biden. Parents of school children, religious people, free speech, medical choice etc. Look at the world! There was peace under Trump, and today, all we can see are wars widening, which can become an existential threat to humanity.
Yet some find their peculiar interests and hurt feelings more important than survival. That is a poor choice, and it has led to war and the disintegration of nations in the past.
“No matter what the pendulum is swinging away for the woke left.”
You like to look at things with an indefinite time frame that can be longer than my great-grandchildren’s grandchildren’s lifetime. That is not good enough. The United States is a fluke where many random things came together to create this great country. One cannot count on it being made again in a reasonable time. You also think of the ups and downs as equal over time, but the idea of entropy enters the equation. In this case, the flow of positive energy, because it is more significant than elsewhere, is in the wrong direction, so the ups are the lesser and the downs greater. Your rigid policies lead to the downfall of great nations.
Democrats are the A team of the controlled global billionaire fake political machine.
Republicans are the B team.
You can’t just vote out the players, you gotta arrest the owners of the team.
Without attacking the ownership stratum of “the West” there is no cure
The Billionaires are the enemy. Maybe not all but presumptively so. Let any who are not prove their loyalty to the people.
so do what with them?
They are to be arrested, tried for their crimes, including criminal antitrust racketeering, their ill gotten gains forfeited pursuant to RICO laws-
and we trace the asset flows to their cutouts and shell companies like the universities and confiscate all those money-laundered funds too
We strip the NGOS and NFPs that make a lot of the trouble
We smash anyone who gets in the way,
and always aim for the top
It’s coming. I know it sounds crazy, but there is only a thin line which leads to victory and its through them, and none other
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWK3nkJhneE
Saloth Sar
Saloth Sar is the birth name of Pol Pot, the Cambodian communist revolutionary.
I never understood the concept of regulating “hatred”.
I am free to hate anyone or anything I want, and no snowflake or unicorn loving, self-righteous boob can tell me any different.
Just wondering if real Scotsman know the rest of the world now considers them nancy boys…
Hatred can be a good thing. Do you hate cancer? Do you hate rape? Do you hate tyranny? I hope you answered yes to all three.
I hate Internet trolls. I also hate people who hate internet trolls. I also hate people who hate too much or who hate too little. (I’ve worked myself into a box.)
Lol
“I am free to hate anyone or anything I want, and no snowflake or unicorn-loving, self-righteous boob can tell me any different.”
– Aninny
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Of course, you are per the Constitution and Bill of Rights, but you’re forgetting the New and Improved American Fundamental Law, the Communist Manifesto.
Under the New American Fundamental Law, the Communist Manifesto, the communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) order you to rent or sell your house to those you are free to hate, to hire them, to set the wages you pay them, to set the rent, to bus them to your schools, to impose affirmative action, to impose quotas, to deliver Obamacare, to provide student loans, public housing, public assistance, and infinite “free stuff” and “free status,” etc., etc., etc., and to do anything and everything else they designate ad infinitum, ad nauseam.
Under the New American Fundamental Law, the Communist Manifesto, the communists order you to rent or sell your house to them, to hire them, to set the wages you pay them, to set the rent, to bus them to your schools, to impose affirmative action, to impose quotas, to impose admissions affirmative action, to impose grade inflation, to deliver Obamacare, to provide student loans, public housing, public assistance, and infinite “free stuff” and “free status,” etc., etc., etc., and to do anything and everything else they designate ad infinitum, ad nauseam.
Resist the new Inquisition!
Under the new Scottish statue, what exposure to criminal liability attends someone who intentionally stirs up hatred against…cannibals?
Statute, not statue.