Below is my column in USA Today on why the opponents of President Joe Biden should make free speech the focus of this election. With the Supreme Court taking an off ramp in Murthy v. Missouri on Internet censorship, the free speech community is left, for now, with the political process to protect free speech. It is a potentially unifying issue for many Americans who are alarmed by the current anti-free speech movement. I have previously written that the Biden Administration has chilling analogies to the Adams Administration in the weaponization of the legal system and the crackdown on free speech. What should most concern Biden is the possibility of another aspect of history repeating itself: a defeat like the one in 1800.
Here is the column:
Since his dystopian speech outside of Independence Hall in 2022, President Joe Biden has made “democracy is on the ballot” his campaign theme. Pundits have repeated the mantra, claiming that if Biden is not elected, American democracy will perish.
While some of us have challenged these predictions, the other presidential candidates are missing a far more compelling argument going into this election. While democracy is not on the ballot this election, free speech is.
The 2024 election is looking strikingly similar to the election of 1800 and, if so, it does not bode well for Biden.
In my book “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” released last week, I discuss our long struggle with free speech as a nation. It is an unvarnished history with powerful stories of our heroes and villains in the struggle to define what Justice Louis Brandeis called our “indispensable right.”
One of the greatest villains in that history was President John Adams, who used the Alien and Sedition Acts to arrest his political opponents – including journalists, members of Congress and others. Many of those prosecuted by the Adams administration were Jeffersonians. In the election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson ran on the issue and defeated Adams.
Government efforts to limit free speech are Orwellian
We are now seeing what is arguably the most dangerous anti-free speech movement in our history. President Joe Biden is, in my view, the most anti-free speech president since Adams. Under his administration, we have seen a massive censorship system funded and directed by the government.
A federal judge described the system as “Orwellian” in its scope and impact.
Biden has repeatedly called for greater censorship and accused social media companies of “killing people” by not silencing more dissenting voices. Other Democrats such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts have pushed for restrictions on “unacceptable” speech.
The Biden administration seeks to censor even true statements as disinformation.
For example, I testified before Congress last year on how Jen Easterly, who heads the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, extended her agency’s mandate over critical infrastructure to include “our cognitive infrastructure.” The resulting censorship efforts included combating “malinformation” – described as information “based on fact, but used out of context to mislead, harm, or manipulate.”
The left has picked up the cudgels of censorship and blacklisting once used against them. During the McCarthy period, liberals were called “communist sympathizers.” Now, conservative justices are called “insurrectionist sympathizers.”
Candidates should call out Biden on censorship
In this election, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Jill Stein, Donald Trump and Cornel West should talk about the threats against free speech at every debate and stump speech. They will have to overcome a news media that has been complicit in the attacks on free speech, but these candidates can break through by raising it as a key issue dividing Biden from the rest of the field.
Democrats and the news media have hammered away at cracking down on those accused of “disinformation.” The public, however, has not been won over by those seeking to limit their right of free speech or the push to amend the First Amendment because it’s too “aggressively individualistic.”
So far, the anti-free speech movement has flourished largely in the echo chambers of academia and the media. It is time for the public to render its judgment.
As discussed in my book, we are hardwired for free speech. It is in our DNA. Despite these periods of crackdowns on free speech, we have always rejected those who wanted to regulate the views of others. Jefferson called the Federalists “the reign of the witches.” (Ironically, Jefferson would himself prosecute critics, though not to the same extent as Adams).
Attacks on free speech have returned with a vengeance before another presidential election. After fighting in the courts and in the public to expand censorship, Biden should now have to defend it with the voters. Let’s have at it, as we did in 1800.
Free speech is again on the ballot. It is time for the public to decide.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
Two problems:
(1) Trump lacks the unique intellectual traits of Jefferson, i.e., knowledgeable, analytical, problem solving, motivating, convincing, creative, and careful planning.
(2) Too much of the media equivocate on the issue of free speech and fail to educate their readers on the full substance of the “Indispensable Right.”
But then again, there is always hope that at least 51% of voters will ignore and move past the problems.
Hopefully, it’s 70% to overcome the fraud from the left.
Spot on, I couldn’t agree more with Professor Turley on this point. Its the one thing that the other candidates need to focus on as its the major issue of the day, along with the war in the Ukraine which is a crime against humanity that WE are perpetrating equally as much as Putin is. This is our war in the Ukraine, its not the Ukrainians and its not Putins, its ours. We own it. We need to clean it up and get out and make peace with Russia.
And we need to restore free speech protections and hold accountable those who support this mass censorship effort by removing them from office and negating their power over us.
But, …we also need to be wary of who we hand the keys too. Trump has had the opportunity to stand up for free speech many times, so why isn’t he?
One possible answer is simple, based on his past it is likely Trump is all for censorship, as long as HE’s the one doing the censoring.
IF that is the answer, and explains why he hasn’t taken this tiger by the tail and made it the key issue, then its important to look at the other candidates, particularly Kennedy who DO make free speech a front and center issue in their campaigns already. Kennedy has numerous ads, videos, etc about the Biden administrations censorship efforts.
Trump I’ve seen none, maybe I missed them but other than few mentions in passing I’ve not heard take this issue to heart, which to me smacks of a pretty obvious sign that its not a big issue for him, and for him its just more of a matter of who doing the censoring instead of censorship itself.
We need to be wise as wolves here, and make sure who we hand the keys to again isn’t just a devil in different clothes.
Another explanation is that Trump is aware that for most people the economy, the border, and violent crime are the biggest issues, so he spends more time talking about them.
Well I agree the economy is a key issue and its one that Trump is particularly adept at addressing, violent crime depends on where you live, that’s a geographically subjective issue, in rural America violent crime is not a huge issue, and while a lot of people talk about the border problem its only really a deal breaker in states near borders or who have a large influx of illegal immigrants, again not a problem here in the bulk of rural America.
Govt censorship since Covid however has impacted everyone and most Americans who really do honor the flag and the country know that free speech is the one foundation stone that keeps that flag flying, and without freedom of speech we have nothing.
The economy could be gold but if we lose free speech then all the money in the world won’t make us free, and money without freedom is nothing.
oh and thanks for pointing out better than I ever could, exactly what’s wrong with the modern conservative party and movement.
Unlike your predecessors, who were motivated by love of freedom and fear of tyranny, you’re motivated by love of money and fear of crime.
We all fear crime, and we all like money. But when it comes to freedom, the battle cry that used to be “give me liberty or give me death”, is now; “give me money and keep me safe”.
Well said.
When I evaluate what I think most people are concerned about, why do you interpret that as a statement about what I personally do or don’t love?
Sorry troll but I am not playing the game. You don’t even qualify as an individual until you put a name behind your words, so what you “personally” love or don’t love I could care less nor do I have a clue. For all I know you’re an AI Bot.
As long as you hide behind anonymous handles then I have no thought about anything “you” might think because far as I know “you” don’t even exist.
You said “MOST PEOPLE” which barring your excluding yourself then that would include you if you are in fact a Trump supporter. If it didn’t include you, and you’re hiding behind an anonymous trolls name, i.e .. “anonymous” then one would assume you’d be intelligent enough to indicate if you didn’t include yourself in the equation.
So the point remains the same, your attempt to troll it away notwithstanding.
What some troll too afraid to put his name behind his own words thinks or doesn’t think isn’t my concern .
To the worthy Chris Weber:
Let’s review. I said one possible theory is that “Trump is aware that for most people the economy, the border, and violent crime are the biggest issues, so he spends more time talking about them.”
You interpreted that to mean that I personally am “motivated by love of money and fear of crime.”
I pointed out that that was a non-sequitur, because logically, I was describing what I thought “most people” were concerned about, and you responded that that meant that I personally felt that way.
Caught in your own illogic, you fell back on pure a ad hominem attack based on the concept that, if I didn’t type in my handle, that somehow meant my logic is faulty.
Well now I’ve supplied my handle. I maintain that it is your logic, sir, that is faulty.
P.S. More ad hominem attacks from you will only prove my point because, apparently, you cannot argue substance.
Who did Trump censor in his first term?
You can start with his attempts to silence the NFL players right to take a knee. You can start there….
He hasn’t shown any proclivity to censor free speech. The leftists have done so incredibly forcefully and actually, often too far.
Sure he has. You just don’t notice it when he’s calling for censorship of speech you also don’t like.
Like the NFL players who took a knee, and the way he along with the rest of you ruined their lives for exercising THEIR right to free speech.
It isn’t enough to be mad at the democrats for censoring the speech you want to hear. You also have to be against censoring the speech you DON’T want to hear.
THEN you’re for free speech and not just playing politics.
George says:June 27, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Republican don’t govern, they rule. They prefer to rule over others instead of governing.
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Reality is just a theory says:June 27, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Yes, because Republicans in the last Congress passed $6T in new laws by bypassing the Senate filibuster.
Yes, because Republicans in the last Congress attempted to
Abolish the filibuster
Add 2 blue States
Add 4 dem senators
Pack the supreme court.
I’ll have what that idiot is smoking.
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Anonymous says:June 27, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Fvck you in your ignorant ass, George the moron
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/voting-rights-bill-filibuster-senate-vote-fail/
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Mythbusters says:June 27, 2024 at 1:59 PM
I reject your reality and substitute my own
—–George, the Spastic Idiot Non Savant
1) Republican “moderates” (RINOs) don’t want to rule. They don’t want to govern. They want to be in second place, so they have no responsibilities. Conservatives want to govern. When they win the majority, they work as hard as they can to give up that majority. Republican Senators, with few exceptions, are wimps and don’t want to rule, don’t want to govern, but want to get along with their friends on the other side of the aisle. The amendment that removed the direct election of Senators needs to be repealed.
2) Literally lies about the last Congressional session. The Democrats tried to add 2 blue states. That was on them. $6 Trillion in spending were mostly Democrats, and a few Republicans. Stop with the lying. The DEMOCRATS tried to pack the courts, which is defined as adding more Justices to the court, not just putting conservative Justices in. Packing the courts? That’s a Democrat trick. They’ve tried it twice in the last 157 years. And they failed BOTH TIMES.
Its sarcasm, you ignorant douche
Why was the Turley Blog invaded and destroyed by anarchist trolls for the election?
Is Turley election-critical?
Is anarchy election-critical?
Is there an historical precedent for this madness?
Because…free speech.
If you wish to improve the comments section of the blog – comment on Turley’s article or actual arguments made regarding Turley’s article.
Some people are wondering where Darren is. I have a guess: most research assistants to a law professor are students. The school year has ended and Darren is not around. Like most other students, he doesn’t hang around school in the summer. Perhaps he even graduated and is never coming back. On top of that, Professor Turley doesn’t read or care about his comment section. It has turned into Isaiah 34:13 – Thorns will overrun her citadels, nettles and brambles her strongholds. She will become a haunt for jackals, a home for owls.
Or perhaps it resembles Mystery Babylon from Revelation 18:2 – She has become a dwelling for demons and a haunt for every impure spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable animal.
Gigi says:June 27, 2024 at 12:47 PM
TRUMP STOLE THE BRA
TRUMP SAID HE IS GOING TO HANG MIKE PENCE WITH IT
TRUMP CAUSED COVID
TRUMP WANTS MY OVARIES
TRUMP IS KILLING MIGRANTS
TRUMP WANTS ME TO DRINK BLEACH
TRUMP RAPED E JEAN CARROLL IN 1953
TRUMP WANTS MY OVARIES
TRUMP SOLD MAR A LAGO FOR A GAZILLION DOLLARS
TRUMP IS A TWICE IMPEACHED, FOUR TIME INDICTED, 2 TIME ADJUDICTAED, 4000 COUNT CONVICTED FELON
TRUMP WANTS MY OVARIES
TRUMP LOST THE POPULAR VOTE AND STOLE THE ELECTION IN 2016
TRUMP IS AN ELECTION DENIER
THE PEE TAPE IS REAL
THE LAPTOP IS FAKE
TRUMP CREATED THE LAPTOP
TRUMP PAID FOR HUNTERS DRUGS AND HIS HOOKERS
TRUMP WANTS MY OVARIES
TRUMP CAUSED INFLATION AND IT WAS 9 PERCENT WHEN HE LEFT OFFICE
TRUMP CANT BE PRESIDENT BECAUSE HE IS FROM FLORIDA—12TH AMENDMENT
TRUMP CAUSED THE SPIKE IN GAS PRICES
TRUMP CAUSED GLOBAL WARMING
TRUMP TOLD THE NATIONAL GUARD TO LEAVE WASHINGTON
TRUMP LED THE STORMING OF THE CAPITAL
TRUMP SHOT ASHLEY BABBITT
TRUMP WANTS MY OVARIES
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You might be right. If the moderator was a student then he is no longer in charge of moderating the blog. I assume nobody wants to take care of the blog or it’s left on ‘autopilot’. Perhaps if Turley paid someone instead of relying on free volunteer work this blog would not be hijacked by foul mouthed personal attacks on others. However, it’s also part of the free speech the professor constantly promotes.
However, it’s also part of the free speech the professor constantly promotes.
That’s actually kind of an interesting issue. One can espouse free speech without allowing one’s living room to be used to broadcast racist propaganda or obscene content. Policing speech emanating from one’s private property to exclude that kind of content would be entirely consistent with the core free speech value of allowing a free and open debate of ideas.
One can be an avid free speech fan without going so far as to say people should be free to incite violence, promote lewd and indecent content in public, make terroristic threats, make fraudulent or libelous statements, or joke about having a bomb at an airport, courthouse, or border checkpoint. These latter types of speech do not promote a meaningful debate about ideas or issues of public or private concern, or help people arrive at the truth. They have been deemed of such little value that society is allowed to weigh them against the harm they cause and prohibit them. I doubt that would be inconsistent with a robust defense of the First Amendment, or with Professor Turley’s position on free speech issues.
OMFK – absolutely there is a property right to exclude whatever speech you wish from your own property.
That does not mean you are obligagted to do so
or worse – spend money to do so.
Absolutely there is lots of speech that is atleast arguably of no benefit – though even fools revealing themselves as fools has some small value.
But just because some speech may have little or no value does not mean that it is worth money or effort to eliminate.
I do not see anyone here being actually harmed by the posts they would censor if they could.
So why bother ?
I have more problems with the fact that the automated processes that get rid of clear span and some other things periodically also filter valid contributions, than with the fact that lots of posts here are little more than juvenile ad hominem.
While Turley has always been a free speech advocate – he is being pushed by the censorious left – as well as some of the tit for tat right that have bought left wing nut speech arguments into ever more absolutist positions.
I commend that.
I am happy to tolerate a plethora of juvenile posts for the right to say whatever I wish with little fear of censorship.
John Say – Professor Turley evidently agrees with you. His wish not to pay someone to moderate is rational; who wants to pay someone to do something if they don’t have to? OTOH, he could eventually want a comment section that is well ordered and not cluttered up with meaningless, juvenile, obscene comments. That might stem from his stature in the legal academic community, and his wish to maintain some level of respect in that community. I don’t have a dog in the fight, so I don’t really care one way or another. I’m trying to analyze what’s going on and state ideas on issues I find interesting as those ideas occur to me, but not necessarily advocate for one result or another.
To clarify:
On the issue of whether Professor Turley’s comment section should be better moderated, I don’t necessarily advocate for one result or another.
So…no integrity or coherence – just chaos and anarchy – in the proprietary threads of a private property blog?
Then what’s the point?
The once-erudite Turley Blog is no less than an inane “Rogue’s Gallery” of profanity and ad hominem.
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Stfu george.
When i first started coming here years ago, yours were the first posts that turned me off. Not because i disagreed with everything in them, but because they were anything BUT erudite.
They were off topic, included a bunch of dumb quotes from even dumber people, and were 9 times out of 10 saying the exact same thing you said in your previous page long post. At least john say changes his up instead of cutting and pasting from a Word document.
Aninny,
Did you say “page-long posts” and not attribute them to John Say?
I couldn’t even get off this page without going through ten+ posts by John Say.
Anonymous, thank you so much for reading…and reading…and reading.
You’re my greatest fan.
I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that I appreciate your patronage.
I will always be in your debt.
John, is it censorship not to permit posts from anonymous people? The alias is anonymous and one can create as many icons as they want. Some do.
Wait. Are racists chopped liver? I don’t get it. Americans can have free speech, but not free opinion? You discriminate when you leave your house in the morning and decide to turn right or left. By gosh, don’t hold your opinion strongly, reject the opinions of others, and risk being a “bigot.” Dang!
Gigi says:June 27, 2024 at 12:47 PM
TRUMP STOLE THE BRA
TRUMP SAID HE IS GOING TO HANG MIKE PENCE WITH IT
TRUMP CAUSED COVID
TRUMP WANTS MY OVARIES
TRUMP IS KILLING MIGRANTS
TRUMP WANTS ME TO DRINK BLEACH
TRUMP RAPED E JEAN CARROLL IN 1953
TRUMP WANTS MY OVARIES
TRUMP SOLD MAR A LAGO FOR A GAZILLION DOLLARS
TRUMP IS A TWICE IMPEACHED, FOUR TIME INDICTED, 2 TIME ADJUDICTAED, 4000 COUNT CONVICTED FELON
TRUMP WANTS MY OVARIES
TRUMP LOST THE POPULAR VOTE AND STOLE THE ELECTION IN 2016
TRUMP IS AN ELECTION DENIER
THE PEE TAPE IS REAL
THE LAPTOP IS FAKE
TRUMP CREATED THE LAPTOP
TRUMP PAID FOR HUNTERS DRUGS AND HIS HOOKERS
TRUMP CAUSED INFLATION AND IT WAS 9 PERCENT WHEN HE LEFT OFFICE
TRUMP CANT BE PRESIDENT BECAUSE HE IS FROM FLORIDA—12TH AMENDMENT
TRUMP CAUSED THE SPIKE IN GAS PRICES
TRUMP CAUSED GLOBAL WARMING
TRUMP TOLD THE NATIONAL GUARD TO LEAVE WASHINGTON
TRUMP LED THE STORMING OF THE CAPITAL
TRUMP SHOT ASHLEY BABBITT
TRUMP WANTS MY OVARIES
Why must Turley pay someone to make you happy with the comments section ?
I am perfectly happy with allowing fools to make fools of themselves.
I am NOT happy with third parties deciding what comments are foolish and which are not.
While Turley is free to do so – it is his blog.
He is certainly free to choose not to spend money making you happy.
Aren’t you able to decide what to give your attention to on your own ?
I can not even figure out what the views of many of the juvenile posts are regarding the articles topic – or almost any other topic,
And do not care.
If you can not make an argument, if all you post is ad hominem and juvenile nonsense – I am not going to spend time reading, trying to decipher your meaning or responding.
If various posts here seem worthless to you – ignore them.
That is far easier that Turley paying someone to try to determine what should be censored and what should not.
define “foul mouthed”
How ’bout that eminently appropriate Civility Rule?
Maybe clean it up a little, fellas?
Must the Turley Blog be commingled with the sewer?
OMFK – does it matter ?
There are long stupid juvenile threads in the comments section exposing those in them as mentally handicapped children.
They add nothing to any debate or discussion – but the DO feature those who participate exposing themselves as fools.
As Sun Tzu said – when your enemy is making a mistake – don’t stop them.
There is actually a valid purpose served by allowing broad free speech – including trolls and other such nonsense.
The absence of good arguments strongly hints that good arguments do not exist.
The volume of ad hominem and other nonsense strongly suggests that is the best those involved can manage.
Further what people post is the best evidence of who they are.
I am perfectly happy with the volume of poor posts on this site.
It paints a picture of the debate that is unflattering for those posters and their positions.
does it matter?
That depends on who you ask. To you it apparently does not matter, to others it does. Again I was trying to be descriptive, not normative. I’ve noticed you often assume that when I try to explain something, I’m trying to say something should happen, which is not what I’m trying to say.
We are not mostly at odds. Though as with any two people we do not agree on everything.
Whether descriptive or normative – you are free to say what you wish with little fear of censorship.
In return you must tolerate that others say what they wish.
Ultimately Turley gets to decide here – and my “guess” is that he can live with the automated process that mostly gets rid of peni$ enhancement adds and other similar spam. While leaving lots of juvenile nonsense.
A major factor effecting Social Media after Musk’s takeover of X is that he fired lost of people in the censorship positions.
Did Twitted become worse as a result ? Not that I have seen.
Did Twitters costs go WAY down ? Absolutely.
We have separately but Quietly seen similar cuts in the rest of Social Media.
Why ?
Because shareholders do not like paying for operations that do not alter the value of the business.
There have been massive layoffs accross country in media censorship roles.
This is one of the HUGE reasons that the recent SCOTUS censorship decision is abhorent.
While I disagree with Barret that the AG did not clearly establish that Govenrment action was coercive.
I DO NOT CARE. Government has almost no role at all in public debate. Especially NO back channel role.
The CORRECT SCOTUS decision was that absent requests involving ACTUALLY illegal speech, Government should NOT be even making requests of the press social media, ro others regarding speech.
Turley has recently – and correctly argued that the Biden administration – and particularly its efrforts at censorship is ACTUALLY the most dictatorial in US history. And the greatest “threat to democracy”.
He has been enlightening us with John Adam;s most repugnant conduct – Note Adam’s was a great founder and a great man.
But he was absolutely wrong in his efforts to censor political opponents.
It does not seem to have worked for Adam’s.
It also does not seem to be working today.
I do not think it is accidental that Trump whose speech DELIBERATLEY enflames many is a major figure at the very same time as government, the media, social media and even large portions of the electorate have gone way off the rails in favor of censorship.
Or put differently – Turley has argued that John Adam’s censorious approach backfired.
I beleive the same is happening to the left today.
The supreme court did not save the republic in 1802, it has abdicated that role today.
But just as in 1802 – as powerful as the effort to censor is, it is still LOSING, as well as FAILING.
“Some people are wondering where Darren is.”
Who needs Darren when Upstate’s inventing a deplorable-hiding app?
Interesting theory, but the comment section here went completely down the turd tube quite a while before the end of the academic year.
The pearls that I have cast to you swine have only diminished in value. I will quit while I am ahead.
Gigi says:June 27, 2024 at 12:47 PM
TRUMP STOLE THE BRA
TRUMP SAID HE IS GOING TO HANG MIKE PENCE WITH IT
TRUMP CAUSED COVID
TRUMP WANTS MY OVARIES
TRUMP IS KILLING MIGRANTS
TRUMP WANTS ME TO DRINK BLEACH
TRUMP RAPED E JEAN CARROLL IN 1953
TRUMP WANTS MY OVARIES
TRUMP SOLD MAR A LAGO FOR A GAZILLION DOLLARS
TRUMP IS A TWICE IMPEACHED, FOUR TIME INDICTED, 2 TIME ADJUDICTAED, 4000 COUNT CONVICTED FELON
TRUMP WANTS MY OVARIES
TRUMP LOST THE POPULAR VOTE AND STOLE THE ELECTION IN 2016
TRUMP IS AN ELECTION DENIER
THE PEE TAPE IS REAL
THE LAPTOP IS FAKE
TRUMP CREATED THE LAPTOP
TRUMP PAID FOR HUNTERS DRUGS AND HIS HOOKERS
TRUMP WANTS MY OVARIES
TRUMP CAUSED INFLATION AND IT WAS 9 PERCENT WHEN HE LEFT OFFICE
TRUMP CANT BE PRESIDENT BECAUSE HE IS FROM FLORIDA—12TH AMENDMENT
TRUMP CAUSED THE SPIKE IN GAS PRICES
TRUMP CAUSED GLOBAL WARMING
TRUMP TOLD THE NATIONAL GUARD TO LEAVE WASHINGTON
TRUMP LED THE STORMING OF THE CAPITAL
TRUMP SHOT ASHLEY BABBITT
TRUMP WANTS MY OVARIES
Janet Yellen says:June 27, 2024 at 1:12 PM
$450k home at 2.65% (Trump) Payment $1813 Total Cost $652,680
$450k home at 7.491% (Biden) Payment $3144 Total Cost $1,131,840
Difference $1331/mo and $479,160
If you don’t know who to vote for, you ain’t broke—-Joe Biden
Turley is only concerned about free speech when he can use it to attack President Biden or democrats in general. And says nothing when Texas removes school books about Anne Frank from school libraries, or when one person, Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar R-cult made a phone call to a billboard company to take down billboards around Miami because it showed a picture of Trump and Castro saying “no to dictators”. And guess what, they took them down, even after someone had paid for their “free speech”.
Fish wings is a brilliant commenter and not a sock puppet.
Pressure from government OK. Ask your cubicle mate George the Moron
The school problem can be solved trivially by getting rid of public schools. Sweden allows you to choose either public or private school and funds both equally. While I really want government out of schools including funding – Government makes EVERYTHING expensive.
Getting government out of schools returns the balance of power in education to PARENTS – where it belongs.
My kinds are in their 20’s. I have no interest in the education of pre-teen and teens today – except that I must pay for it.
It is not the states business what books are in schools. Nor is it the unsupervised education bureaucracy.
Teachers can teach what they want. Librarians can choose whatever books they want and parents can demand they are fired for doing so.
Unfortunately, if the US decided to “adopt” that Swedish model, in short order a way would be found to deny funding to private schools unless certain collectivist precepts that public schools embrace were adhered to. Similar to the fiction that “charter schools” are anything but public schools that the parents of students who attend get to pay for twice (first by taxes, then by tuition)
I have no idea what the truth of your claim regarding Rep. Salazar was.
If Salazar did as you say and even hinted at using her power as an elected official – then she was Wrong.
Conversely if she suggested that the Cuban refugee community in Miami might be highly offended and the Billboard company decided that might be right – that is free markets and free speech at work.
Budweiser engaged in free speech and its customers responded tanking sales by 25% and taking the value of the company down by the same. Neither have subsequently recovered. That is how free markets and free speech work.
PETA threatened McD’s with protests and boycotts and was not only able to negotiate new McD’s standards for Chicken farmers, but the rest of the fast food industry quickly adopted the same standards.
The LGBTQ community threatened Chik-a-filet – which despite being owned by a very conservative family has actually moderated many of its policies that offend the LGBTQ community.
O.K. So, let’s see here. Let me parse your bull into bitesize chunks.
1) It’s the left that’s the cult, not the right. You believe in non-science that man, which produces in 100 years, less carbon than a single major volcano is causing the destruction of the world because we have 149 years of data that show us “normal” of the over 100,000 years humans have been alive and the 8000 we’ve had any sort of civilization. You believe that plant food which is in the air, and is captured and converted to oxygen and better crops is somehow poison. You believe that the ice caps disappeared in 1996, 1997, 1998 and so on until today, where those stubborn ice caps refuse to follow your cult. You believe that anyone who disbelieves in your cult, should be driven from the ranks of the Church of Science. You believe, despite this little thing called biology, that there are 374 or whatever it is this week, genders, not the 2 we know to be the truth, and that if you dare say there are only 2 genders, you can be investigated, and if you tattle (whistleblowing for the grownups) on their plans to mutilate 9 year olds, then the FBI will show up at your door. You believe that a man can have surgery and take hormones, and become a woman. We laughed at you. Now, we’re not laughing because you keep wanting to try to shove your disgusting lies down our children’s throats, and even have the audacity to tell us they’re not our children anymore. I could go on, because you have this fairy tale belief in Keyensian Economics which has failed at every turn and some ridiculous belief that if you take in millions of illegal aliens, change the words to “undocumented migrants” we’ll all forget they broke the law to get or stay here. Literally well over half of your illegal aliens commit at least 1 often 2 felony crimes, sometimes even 3 and 4. But, you want to let them go on those because they’re “victimless”. Except they’re not. Felony Criminal Identity Theft costs Americans over $40 billion per year. Felony Fraud is not victimless. Felony Employment Law violations are not victimless. Felony Bank Fraud is not victimless. Literally, to function in our society, you need an ID, a bank account and a job of some sorts. Of those, not one can an illegal alien get without committing a felony if they don’t want to be shown to be illegal aliens.
2) Turley is a Democrat. He is one of those Liberal, not leftist Democrats (of which there seem to be less than 100 left in the world) that doesn’t attack without showing a breaking of the law. He went after Trump for things he believed Trump did wrong. He goes after Biden for things that Biden does wrong. He supports the Constitution, something you leftist morons literally just consider a burden.
3) Texas had ONE district remove over 670 books from their libraries, most focused on sexuality and race. Unfortunately, that also collected a few books that were Jewish positive books as well. There were 9 titles removed that covered Holocaust themes. It was not all of Texas. You hate the Conservative take on education, you know, focusing on learning, not focusing on gender studies and how many pronouns they can teach and how many graphic sexual pictures they can show to first graders. What has that done for the conservative bastion of Florida? You know, where the governor removed the sex language and sex teaching and the gay agenda from kids under 8th grade? What did that do? Well, let’s see. Where were they in 2022? They were 16th in the nation. What about 2023, when the law went into effect? 10th. After 1 year of actual teaching of the basics, where are the? Oh, wow. Look at that. They’re #1 in the nation. Where’s California? They literally spend over $5000/pupil more than Florida does. You’d think they’d be doing great. The have a 34% literacy rate at graduation.
Maria Salazar didn’t like something. She made a phone call, and it got taken away. She asked the company to remove the billboards. You have no proof of any threats or any payments or kickbacks. What you have is she got upset with a blatant lie (Trump isn’t even 1/100th the dictator you idiots claim he was, and that’s still less than 1/100th of the dictator Joe and his handlers have ACTUALLY become), and called, as any citizen can do, ask, and they decided to do so. Was it because she was a politician? Possibly. Was it because she knew someone at the company? Possibly. Who knows. You certainly do not. It wasn’t a violation of the person’s free speech. It was the company no longer wishing to do business with them.
If anyone hasn’t figured it out, the obsessive compulsive troll that lives on this site has one purpose. That purpose is to disrupt and distract a free speech platform. The incessant postings are often vulgar and without any merit or reason. The goal is to suppress people from bringing legitimate dialogue and discussion to the site. Normally a moderator would ban such bad behavior but then perhaps the experiment would not yield the results sought.
Traveler is one of many of Floyd’s sockpuppets.
Wrong
$450k home at 2.65% (Trump) Payment $1813 Total Cost $652,680
$450k home at 7.491% (Biden) Payment $3144 Total Cost $1,131,840
Difference $1331/mo and $479,160
If you don’t know who to vote for, you ain’t broke—-Joe Biden
to answer your question-no, i dont want to defeat joe biden- i voted for trump- twice- he’s a cancer on america
to answer no ones question….i haven’t a fvcking clue how to post a comment here, cuz i am a moron
Why was the Turley Blog invaded and destroyed by anarchist trolls for the election?
Is Turley election-critical?
Is anarchy election-critical?
Is there an historical precedent for this madness?
“Standing” is not a legal concept.
What?
That’s the same fvcking idiot anon as above. he can’t even figure out how to properly respond to a particular comment
“Standing” was invented by lazy judges in the early 20th century to dodge difficult cases.
Standing is not a legal concept, and did not exist in case law prior to that.
Actually it is an important legal concept – you ALWAYS want an issue or contreversey being argued by those who best reflect each position – and that means those who have an actual stake in the outcome.
But the courts have FREQUENTLY abused legal doctines such as standing, or laches, or mootness, or ripeness to avoid making difficult or controversial decisions. That is ERROR.
I am not sure I agree that the AG or MO does not have standing.
Nor do I agree that the Biden administration ceasing first amendment violative conduct ends the issue.
The supreme court was OBLIGATED – as it did – Sotomayor no less in finding that The Government can not threaten Free speech.
The good news is that the NRA decision DOES establish that the conduct found in MO is unconstitutional – because it is the same conduct found in NYS with respect to the NRA.
No, it is not a concept grounded in doctrine.
It is a procedural dodge invented by lazy judges in the early 20th century.
DRUG TEST
Did Jerry Nadler ever find his bra?
No, I heard that Trumpy bear was spanking Melania with it.
Dennis this is beneath even you.
It used to be the right was fixated on the private sexual conduct of others.
Today it is the left.
While the actual revalation of all the Trump sex/court matters has been that Trump’s sexual conduct is pretty vanilla,
If Donald and Melania – or Joe and Jill are into S&M so long as it is consensual WHO CARES ?
Most of “the Right” while still viewing the conduct of much of the LGBTQ+ community as sinful, has adopted a live and let live approach – so long as that conduct is purely private and especially does not threaten their Kids.
Why can’t the left do the same ?
Last I saw of it, Menendez was using it to haul some gold bars around.
If I see it on some goddam drag queen, I am not going to be happy!
TRUMP STOLE THE BRA
TRUMP SAID HE IS GOING TO HANG MIKE PENCE WITH IT
TRUMP CAUSED COVID
TRUMP WANTS MY OVARIES
TRUMP IS KILLING MIGRANTS
TRUMP WANTS ME TO DRINK BLEACH
TRUMP RAPED E JEAN CARROLL IN 1953
TRUMP WANTS MY OVARIES
TRUMP SOLD MAR A LAGO FOR A GAZILLION DOLLARS
TRUMP IS A TWICE IMPEACHED, FOUR TIME INDICTED, 2 TIME ADJUDICTAED, 4000 COUNT CONVICTED FELON
TRUMP WANTS MY OVARIES
TRUMP LOST THE POPULAR VOTE AND STOLE THE ELECTION IN 2016
TRUMP IS AN ELECTION DENIER
THE PEE TAPE IS REAL
THE LAPTOP IS FAKE
TRUMP CREATED THE LAPTOP
TRUMP PAID FOR HUNTERS DRUGS AND HIS HOOKERS
TRUMP WANTS MY OVARIES
TRUMP CAUSED INFLATION AND IT WAS 9 PERCENT WHEN HE LEFT OFFICE
TRUMP CANT BE PRESIDENT BECAUSE HE IS FROM FLORIDA—12TH AMENDMENT
TRUMP CAUSED THE SPIKE IN GAS PRICES
TRUMP CAUSED GLOBAL WARMING
TRUMP TOLD THE NATIONAL GUARD TO LEAVE WASHINGTON
TRUMP LED THE STORMING OF THE CAPITAL
TRUMP SHOT ASHLEY BABBITT
TRUMP WANTS MY OVARIES
That is false AND racist. I will prove that Trump did it, or something else, if I am re-elected.
If Trump says one word about the bra, I will throw him in jail
Seems Turley wants to go to a show in Denver with trumpy bear as his guest soon!!!
Tedious.
You don’t need to define it in this context.
ACB still wants to kill trumpy bear for forcing the covid huff mask on her family.
Will trumpy bear show the o ring mouth hole tonight? Will he break out Mr. Sniffy???? Will he show up with covid and almost die, but not before trying to kill his debate prep partner???
Colbert need to be doing real time commentary tonight.