Below is my column in The Hill on why a Harris-Walz Administration would be a nightmare for free speech. A long-standing advocate for censorship and other speech controls, Vice President Kamala Harris just added an equally menacing candidate to her ticket for 2024.
Here is the column:
The selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as the running mate for Vice President Kamala Harris has led to intense debates over crime policy, war claims, gender identity policies and other issues.
Some attacks have, in my view, been inaccurate or overwrought. However, the greatest danger from this ticket is neither speculative nor sensational. A Harris-Walz administration would be a nightmare for free speech.
For over three years, the Biden-Harris administration has sustained an unrelenting attack on the freedom of speech, from supporting a massive censorship system (described by a federal court as an “Orwellian Ministry of Truth“) to funding blacklisting operations targeting groups and individuals with opposing views.
President Biden made censorship a central part of his legacy, even accusing social media companies of “killing people” for failing to increase levels of censorship. Democrats in Congress pushed that agenda by demanding censorship on subjects ranging from climate change to gender identity — even to banking policy — in the name of combatting “disinformation.”
The administration also created offices like the Disinformation Governance Board before it was shut down after public outcry. But it quickly shifted this censorship work to other offices and groups.
As vice president, Harris has long supported these anti-free speech policies. The addition of Walz completes a perfect nightmare for free speech advocates. Walz has shown not only a shocking disregard for free speech values but an equally shocking lack of understanding of the First Amendment.
Walz went on MSNBC to support censoring disinformation and declared, “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy.”
Ironically, this false claim, repeated by many Democrats, constitutes one of the most dangerous forms of disinformation. It is being used to convince a free people to give up some of their freedom with a “nothing to see here” pitch.
In prior testimony before Congress on the censorship system under the Biden administration, I was taken aback when the committee’s ranking Democrat, Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands), declared, “I hope that [all members] recognize that there is speech that is not constitutionally protected,” and then referenced hate speech as an example.
That false claim has been echoed by others such as Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), who is a lawyer. “If you espouse hate,” he said, “…you’re not protected under the First Amendment.” Former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean declared the identical position: “Hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment.”
Even some dictionaries now espouse this false premise, defining “hate speech” as “Speech not protected by the First Amendment, because it is intended to foster hatred against individuals or groups based on race, religion, gender, sexual preference, place of national origin, or other improper classification.”
The Supreme Court has consistently rejected the claim of Gov. Walz. For example, in the 2016 Matal v. Tam decision, the court stressed that this precise position “strikes at the heart of the First Amendment. Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express ‘the thought that we hate.’”
As the new Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Walz is running alongside one of the most enthusiastic supporters of censorship and blacklisting systems.
In her failed 2020 presidential bid, Harris ran on censorship and pledged that her administration “will hold social media platforms accountable for the hate infiltrating their platforms, because they have a responsibility to help fight against this threat to our democracy.”
In October 2019, Harris dramatically spoke directly to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, insisting “This is not a matter of free speech….This is a matter of holding corporate America and these Big Tech companies responsible and accountable for what they are facilitating.” She asked voters to join her in the effort.
They didn’t, but Harris ultimately succeeded in the Biden-Harris administration to an unprecedented degree with a comprehensive federal effort to target and silence individuals and groups on social media.
In my new book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I detailed how President Biden is the most anti-free speech president since John Adams. Unlike Adams, I have never viewed Biden as the driving force behind the massive censorship and blacklisting operations supported by his subordinates, including Harris. That is not to say that Biden does not share the shame in these measures. He was willing to sacrifice not only free speech but also institutions like the Supreme Court in a desperate effort to rescue his failing nomination.
The substitution of Harris for Biden makes this the second election in which free speech is the key issue for voters. In 1800, Thomas Jefferson defeated Adams, in large part based on his pledge to reverse the anti-free speech policies of the prior administration, including the use of the Alien and Sedition Acts to arrest his opponents.
With the addition of Walz, Democrats now have arguably the most anti-free speech ticket of a major party in more than two centuries. Both candidates are committed to using disinformation, misinformation and malinformation as justifications for speech controls. The third category has been emphasized by the Biden-Harris administration, which explained that it is information “based on fact, but used out of context to mislead, harm, or manipulate.”
Walz has the advantage in joining this anti-free speech ticket without the burden of knowledge of what is protected under the First Amendment.
With the Harris-Walz ticket, we have come full circle to the very debate at the start of this republic. The warnings of the Founders to reject the siren’s call of censorship remain tragically relevant today. Free speech was and remains our “indispensable right.”
As Benjamin Franklin warned, “In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech….Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom, and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech, which is the right of every man.”
With her selection of Walz, Harris has decided to put free speech on the ballot in this election. It is a debate that our nation should welcome, as it did in 1800.
The Biden-Harris administration has notably toned down its anti-free speech efforts as the election approaches. Leading censorship advocates have also gone mostly silent.
If successful, a Harris-Walz administration is expected to bring back those policies and personalities with a vengeance. That could be radically enhanced if the Democrats take both houses of Congress and once again block investigations into their censorship programs.
The media has worked very hard to present Harris and Walz as the “happy warriors.” Indeed, they may be that and much more. The question is what they are happy about in their war against free speech.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage” (Simon and Schuster).
Having sex with porn stars while your family is at home is a form of free speech.
“Mind your own damned business!”
-Tampon Tim Walz
Well, that didn’t last very long.
Walz is jealous that he never got underage tail like Trump did.
Sure he did. It was just with little boys. Same as you.
Walz is jealous that he never got underage tail like Trump did.
Tampon Tim Walz’s anonymous fans of AWOL Stolen Valor Mixed With ChiCom Communism are jealous that there’s no proof that Trump got any underage tail like President Daddy-Daughter Inappropriate Sex Showers did with his teenage daughter Ashley.
After all, if Trump had actually had underage sex with women, especially an underage daughter – or pretty much anything else these pathological liars accuse him of – they wouldn’t have to make up crap like that and they’d have had him in jail years ago.
@Anonmi
Posting on a blog where literally nobody cares about your static interference is likely the bigger mental malfunction. Your employers should probably ask for a refund, because we honestly don’t give a sheet. 🤷🏻♂️
Is having sex with a member of the same sex while your family (i.e. spouse) is the same sex and at home a form of free speech? It would seem to be aberrant to Merriam-Webster.
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Merriam-Webster
sex
sexual union involving penetration of the vagina by the penis
Having sex with porn stars while your family is at home is a form of free speech.
Cowardly Anonymous Soviet Democrat Woke Useful Idiots forget to mention that’s legal. But a grooming Soviet Democrat pervert having Daddy-Daughter Inappropriate Sex Showers with your minor age daughter isn’t free speech; normal Americans call that “incest”. And that’s a felony unless your last name is Biden.
And then Senator Biden raping a young intern is also a felony – not a form of free speech.
These Anonymous cowards also oddly forgot to mention that a no-talent unlikable woman going onto her knees to service a powerful politician twice her age might also be considered as being a whore (or porn star) as well as a form of free speech. Ditto choosing for a husband a man who didn’t have sex with a professional sex worker – but rode the family’s nanny while the wife was out of the house until she eventually got pregnant. That’s TWO examples of legal sex free speech in just one Soviet Democrat traditional American family.
This is why these feckless craven Anonymous cowards avoid identifying themselves with a username.
OT,
“Are you confident that there will be a peaceful transfer of power in January 2025”
“if Trump wins, no, I’m not confident at all!” -Joe Biden
Cut (because there is an edit/cut)
“I mean, if Trump loses, I’m not confident at… pic.twitter.com/VXrbKmVlnZ
— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) August 12, 2024
Right.
This pathetic, disgusting, dishonest “news” outlet tried to make it look like he corrected himself.
This is what we are up against. And libturds have NO problem with it.
GOP Senate nominee and veteran Hung Cao slams Walz’s military record: ‘Blatant lies’
https://nypost.com/2024/08/09/us-news/gop-senate-nominee-and-veteran-hung-cao-slams-tim-walzs-military-record-blatant-lies/
Media already censor this for years: The 1,500 reactors’ll explode in case of an unprevented long blackout/war/chaos https://GlobalBlackoutPrevention.wordpress.com
Trump wants to ban the free speech of flag burning:
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4792101-donald-trump-urges-jail-sentence-burning-flags-protests/
The flag in question was public property. You can be jailed for destruciton of public property as most of you left wing nuts demonstrated with respect to merely moving a lecturn at the capitol on J6.
You remain free to burn your own american flag even in Trump’s world.
Next Trump says lots of things. Has he had DOJ arrest anyone for Flag burning ? Prosecute them ? Jail them ?
Trump in the past frequently suggested that someone should silence specific journalists – but when he had the power to do so – he did nothing. There is not even any evidence that he tried to do anything.
There was no ministry of disinformation in the Trump administration. To the extent there was any government censorship during the trump administration it was those “deep state” operatives that the left claims are some conspiracy theory, who were pressuring Social Media to Censor Covid information and Conservative political speech during an election.
In otherwords during the trump administration the only censorship by government was rogue elements in an organized effort to censor the president and his supporters.
Recently we have learned from TSA whistleblowers that Tulsi Gabbard has been put on the domestic terrorist watchlist and that her entirte family is being harrassed by TSA everytime she travels – being delayed by hours with every filight.
Tulsi is a thorn in the side of the left – she is partiocularly hated by Hillary who she called out for rigging the democratic primary against Sanders, and by Kackling Kamala for Gabbards brutal and correct takedown of Kamala during the Democratic debates in 2020.
Regardless if you take property that is not yours and you burn it – you will likely be prosecuted – even if that property is an american flag.
Depending on the circumstances you might also be prosecuted for arson. Which is a very serious offence.
What matters is NOT whether you were burning an american flag, but whether you were stealing and destroying property that is not yours, and whether you burned it in a fashion that was dangerous to yourself or others.
John Say,
As we have seen, leftists do not care about things like public or even private property. They embrace things like destruction, arson, even violence against anyone to the right of Stalin or Mao. Even police.
They are pushing for a civil war thinking they will win the fight. We will prove them wrong.
Leftists don’t care about private property??? Last time I checked, big business in America leans heavily Democrat. Cigna, Amazon, Google, McKesson, Target, etc. care very much about private property. They are hardly throwing their support behind Trump and his nutcase policies. A tariff-based economy? What an f***ed up mess.
You might check your history. Prior to the passage of the 16th amendment in 1913, the overwhelming bulk of Federal revenues was, surprise, surprise, tariffs on foreign imports.
Who remembers 2016 to 2019? Apparently not this spastic idiot. And he would prefer no one does.
Upstate, the Biden administration is responsible for placing Gabbard on a watchlist. One might say it is to intimidate, but doing it to Gabbard should anger independents. Do you have any thoughts?
S. Meyer,
Actually, while mildly shocked, I am not surprised by the Biden admin going after their political opponents. By their words and actions, they have proven to be the fascists they claim everyone else are.
All the more reason to vote against the Democrat party.
UpstateFarmer correct, but the rest of us must NOT abandon our principles – we must treat those on the left in accord with those principles even if they would not do so to us.
Sen. MacCarthy and HUAC and the blacklists were WRONG – even though the infiltration of US institutions by communists and socialists – the long march through education has proven incredibly destructive to this country and our values.
Those suppressing the free speech of the left in the 50’s were absolutely positively correct about the danger they posed.
We see the proof of that today. But being right about the danger of a threat STILL does not justify abandoning our principles. to defend against that threat.
The actual left – as opposed to liberals like Turley have NEVER valued principles like individual freedom. Everything can be sacrificed to their ability to impose their preferred solutions on others by FORCE,
The common thread to the left is NOT ideology – but the delusion that the world will be better if the idea of the day is imposed on all of us – by force if necescary.
John Say,
I agree with you on the over all idea of keeping our principles.
However, as you note, the left has no problem with forcing their delusions on the rest of us. It is when it comes to them using force, then I will happily oblige them with force in kind.
And that would not giving up my principles but keeping with them in the fight against their tyranny.
John Say,
Your observations of what Trump did NOT do during his first admin, is very telling. Despite all the fearmongering coming from leftists, in reality it was them projecting what they desire to do, Trump did nothing of the sort. They continue to do so, making wild claims based off nothing.
In his first two years, Trump debt spent a greater rate than any president in US history… when the economy was in an upturn. When you get a raise you pay your bills. You don’t stop paying your bills in order to go on a luxury vacation. That’s how Trump plowed his companies into bankruptcy 6 times. He overspent on his properties in order to create the illusion of success, hoping it would become reality. He tried to do the same thing to the US economy.
Unfortunately, you cannot look at a finished product and the details behind your comments. In the end, Trump’s businesses flourished and benefitted society. He presently has much more wealth than when he first started.
While I personally dislike debt, it was a necessary tool in Trump’s strategy to bolster America’s strength and ensure its safety. His foreign policies, which were instrumental in maintaining national security, were able to flourish due to this strategy. Yes, there were some excessive expenditures, but they were the price to pay in dealing with a left that was unyielding.
Ultimately, he created an economy that is surviving even with a terrible Biden Administration, though Biden’s policies are now coming to a head to erase Trump’s successes so that we are seeing failure in Biden’s. Should Kamala be elected, the downswing will continue to degenerate. With a Trump presidency, there will be a reversal, as when he took office.
It’s hard to justify Biden’s actions, so you and others resort to using misleading figures and falsehoods. But it’s worth pondering, how did Biden’s policies affect your wealth generation? Did you see the same level of success as Trump’s economic strategies have demonstrated?
Meyer
He will either admit this economy did not work for him or he will lie about it.
Unless he is among the 82% of people making more that $400k/yr who say its great.
Everyone else hates it or is lying about it.
Regardless if you take property that is not yours and you burn it – you will likely be prosecuted – even if that property is an american flag.
Were they?
Trump wants to ban the free speech of flag burning:
The Soviet Democrats’ street thugs that are veterans of the Election Season Of Mostly Peaceful Rioting, Looting, Pillaging and burning are terrified that there will no longer be a president and his DoJ that encourage them to burn other peoples’ businesses and flags.
Imagine a world where Soviet Democrats aren’t in power to tell you it’s just a form of free speech to riot, pillage, loot and burn – terrifying.
This is why these Soviet Democrat culls don’t have to worry about posting under a valid username – their parents started denying they had any children who lived years ago, when they threw their cowardly culls out of the house.
There is no such thing as hate speech.
I just ignore the Nony Mice.
Now if we could only get him to ignore the lame dad jokes…
David B. Benson,
For once, you and I agree on something.
Pseudonyms are okay but “Anonymous” is not. Got it.
All anonymous should be ignored. Just scroll past. Dont read or respond to them. They are all pathetic losers with no life or a thought in their empty heads.
Free speech, loser.
Some of us are just lazy.
The Turley blog, like any comment section, is not the cherished, long-established institution of democracy that you seem to think it is. It is more like a public accommodation. Like a public rest room.
“Like a public rest room.”
With lots of steaming turds. Many from David Benson.
So my question for JT is, is he going to vote democrat again?
Democrat Walz is accused of lying about his military service by a lieutenant colonel, John Kolb, a former battalion commander of Tim Walz’s National Guard ….joined the attacks soon after Vice President Kamala Harris admitted her running mate “misspoke” about retiring as a command sergeant major.”
https://nypost.com/2024/08/12/us-news/ex-commander-of-tim-walzs-unit-joins-stolen-valor-attacks/
John Kolb is with Thomas Behrends.
Feeling a need to say this:
I do not regret that Tim Walz retired early from the
Minnesota Army National Guard, did not complete the
Sergeants Major Academy, broke his enlistment contract or
did not successfully complete any assignment as a
Sergeant Major. Unwittingly, he got out of the way for
better leadership. Thomas Behrends was the right leader at
the right time. He sacrificed to answer the call, leaving his
family, business and farming-partner brother to train, lead
and care for soldiers. He earned the privilege of being
called Command Sergeant Major. Like a great leader he ran
toward and not away from the guns. I have no opinion of
Mr. Walz’s decision to leave service at the time he did. It
was his right to retire early. I also have no criticism of his
service as an E7 and E8 in the MNARNG. By all accounts
and on the record, he was a competent Chief of Firing
Battery/Gunnery Sergeant and First Sergeant. I cannot say
the same of his service sitting, frocked, in the CSM chair.
He did not earn the rank or successfully complete any
assignment as an E9. It is an affront to the
Noncommissioned Officer Corps that he continues to glom
onto the title. I can sit in the cockpit of an airplane, it does
not make me a pilot. Similarly, when the demands of
service and leadership at the highest level got real, he
chose another path.
#notmyCSM
“No balls” Walz.
Great argument against Walz. So it’s settled, you’re voting for the moronic toilet dumpster fire that is the Trump/Vance ticket.
Yep. I’d like to see what it’s like to buy groceries and put gas in my car in the same week.
You can’t afford gas and buy groceries? Jesus, we p;rovided you all the tools and educational opportunities. Look pal, your failure to get a proper education and good job screwed our country in two ways. One, because you apparently only have the skill to clean toilets, Mexicans can compete with you and keep your wages down. Two, for the well-paying job you would have gotten had you paid attention, we have to import people from other countries with high level skills. And now, you want the gub’ment to step in for you because you ended up reaching adulthood with no skills and living in borderline poverty. You’re just going to have to suck it up and go get skills. Yes, I know, it’s harder later in life but I don’t want your anti-globalist welfare mentality getting in the way of my affluent lifestyle.
The elite has spoken!
He’s not elite. He’s the booger eating drunktard known as Elvis Bug the Lawn Boy.
He has tried before to make it sound like he’s not a pathetic loser who had a failed lawn mowing business, still pissed at Trump because he didn’t get paid for mowing the grass and Trump ruined his one big shot with his failed grain trade.
He likes to cosplay as successful.
He drinks cooking sherry in this economy instead of good liquor.
Okay. I’ll ‘fess up. I lied.
I was a HS valedictorian, graduated from an Ivy League university and then got a master’s degree. After being commissioned, I had, inter alia, three AFIT assignments (B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D). I would assess my educational level as above average.
I am also not hurting for bucks. I don’t want to talk numbers, but let’s just say that I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about the weekly family budget or planning a vacation.
I wrote what I wrote to elicit a response that would reflect the mindset of the typical Harris/Walz voter, and you certainly didn’t disappoint. Your condescension for working class Americans comes through loud and clear and your racist comment about Mexicans was a nice bonus. You revealed your true colors and I thank you.
While a complete lie for me, what I wrote is true for many working class Americans (you know, the middle class that Biden, Harris and Walz speak of so glowingly if insincerely). These good folks (I know you disagree) were living financially secure lives before being afflicted by the inflation brought on by Bidenomics and deserve to get back on their feet financially.
Life has blessed me with more than enough to get by. I am comfortable with that. What I am not comfortable with is having more than enough when my neighbors don’t even have enough. You may be happy with a haves versus have-nots economy but I could never be. I guess that’s the difference between a capitalist and a socialist.
So it’s settled, you’re voting for the moronic toilet dumpster fire that is the Trump/Vance ticket.
So it’s settled: you’re once again voting for another round of radical neo-communist Soviet Democrats who have lied about everything they actually did or promised to do in political office.
Round Heels Harris and Stolen Valor ChiCom Vance are the Soviet Democrat version of utopian, intellectual nirvana in your world, while the Trump/Vance world is a dumpster fire of burning commie dreams and fairy tales.
Who does this Tim guy think he is? Does Tim think he can just Walz right into the vice-presidency?
Nah. A Harris/Walz administration would just be tough on the sort of lies and defamation you guys rock at the fox mothership, Turls. Free speech will be just fine as Harris and Walz believe in a democratic Republic.
No, they don’t. They don’t even know what that means.
“Free speech will be just fine as Harris and Walz believe in a democratic Republic.”
Yep. Thats why she said this:
“My administration will hold social media companies accountable” for free speech.
You don’t know what it means.
I know you are but what am I?
A Harris/Walz administration would just be tough on the sort of lies and defamation you guys rock at the fox mothership, Turls.
Can you say “Clinton/Obama/Biden/DNC Russia Dossier rocked on CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, NYT, WaPoo”, cowardly Anonymous Soviet Democrat?
Can you say “News media reporting on the Biden Bribery Laptop must be censored as ‘Russian election disinformation'”, cowardly Anonymous Soviet Democrat?
China is the world’s biggest manufacturer of sex toys.
True dat. I buy as many as I can afford to fill my otherwise empty, meaningless, single life. Free speech is a good thing
bug
LOL
Finally, a speck of truth from Lawn Boy. Two things we can agree on. Free speech and your worthless life.
Whats bizarre is the number of times you tried to deflect when I pointed out that your existence is pathetic.
dont try to pretend that those sex toys arent for use on your nephew though, turd maggot.
Childless cat man.
And you’re one of the biggest consumers. What a happy coincidence!
When Trump says he is concerned about China he’s a fool. When Biden says he’s concerned about China he’s the wisest man of all time. Anonymous works really hard to make it seem that Trump is crazy about China but she won’t say a word about any Democratic that also says that China is a problem. One Democrat is now saying that he now believes that China is a problem. Who might that man be? Why none other than Tim Walz himself.
“I certainly was under the illusion that liberalizing trade and openness would have a significant impact on liberalization of personal freedoms,” Mr. Walz said during a congressional hearing in 2016. “I have now seen that is not the case.” It took him 35 years to figure it out. According to Anonymous Tim Walz is now overly occupied with China. What we have here is a classic case of an adult thinking like a child. Thank you for your valuable insight Anonymous.
No problem! Glad I could help!
Sorry but this is just dumb. No point is articulated.
Wonderful! The video shows how frequently Trump is in front of the camera and answering questions. WHERE IS KAMALA? She is missing in action.
S. Meyer,
Hiding.
As we all know, she cannot do an unscripted appearance without stumbling over herself in word salad. As with Biden, she will only go on leftist favoring MSM, get softball questions and canned answers. MSM is doing everything they can to bury her far leftist policies, like defunding the police and ICE.
Notice how she will only do one debate with Trump on ABC. She refuses to do three as Trump suggested.
There should be concern about Tim Walz’s judgement. He traveled to China 30 times. He even had his honeymoon in China. Here’s what he had to say concerning his judgement on China in his own words.
“I certainly was under the illusion that liberalizing trade and openness would have a significant impact on liberalization of personal freedoms,” Mr. Walz said during a congressional hearing in 2016. “I have now seen that is not the case.” Donald Trump suffered no such illusion. When he used the word illusion he should have said indoctrination. Disinformation is censored in China. Walz believes that Disinformation should be censored in The United States. We should not suffer any illusions about his positions so as not to say we were sorry about our illusions after he is elected.
TiT,
A Harris/Waltz WH admin would be the most dangerous admin in modern history for the citizens of the US.
UpstateFarmer. Sadly many Americans, not properly educated in world history cannot recognize that the language used by Kamala and Walz is a reiteration of the same language used by Stalin and Mao Zedong. People in the Franklin Roosevelt administration didn’t believe that Stalin meant what he said. We should not be equally naive about what Harris and Walz have said concerning the limiting of your right to speak freely. We should be fully aware of their philosophy which has been plainly spoken from their very mouths and beware.
Hear hear
It’s getting more and more absurd to argue anything for Trump or Vance. They are such assclowns, as well as their base, that anyone with a smidgeon of a sense of intelligence is jumping off ship. Trump is headed toward losing in a landslide.
The most dangerous entity in the United States today?????? this thing, called the, “Democrat-Party.” They are not democratic whatsoever. They are the direct opposite of democracy. And I say it again. The most dangerous thing in America today is the party that calls themselves the, “Democrat-Party.”
Furthermore, the people that cast a vote for them????? or also the most deranged and anti-American, anti-free speech, Anti-freedom, / Anti-God, / Anti-Firearms. Etc etc. the entire party, needs to be destroyed…. NO-MATTER-THE-COST…
You’re anti-Ukraine pro Putin… about as un-American as it gets. Let’s hear your moronic BS explanation.
I see Tulsi Gabbard is on the terrorist watch list. That will teach her to cross the establishment. We all should be scared. We truly live in a different country now. Glad I lived when I did.
Bob
She is assigned two Explosive Detection Canine Teams, one Transportation Security Specialist (explosives), one plainclothes TSA Supervisor, and three Federal Air Marshals on every flight she boards. She has also been subjected to screenings at the checkpoints taking as much as 45 minutes.
Congress needs to get to the bootom of this and see to it that the people responsible are not just fired, but prosecuted.
Her appearance on the “Quiet Skies” list occurred the day after she appeared on Hannity, criticising the admin, Harris, and the MIC.
Where is the media??? Imagine if this were Harris when Trump was President…
Tulsi is no woman. She’s a man, baby.
Do we really need to state the obvious; we have been in this censorship mode since the clinton years. Nothing new here since we have just rolled over for the las several decades and allowed it to get worse with each year. Why complain now, the time for push back was bill’s lies Monica Lewinski. It will take far more than a few opinion pieces in conservative media to turn this leviathan around (if it is even, demographically possible at this time).
Total BS. Tell us, genius, what speech of yours has been censored since the Clinton presidency?
Jonathan: when your very dear friend, Dennis McIntyre shows up today to use your comment section as his personal blog to go off topic campaigning for the Round Heels Harris/AWOL Walz political dance, could you ask him to explain how Walz claims he remembers standing at attention bearing A Weapon Of War with his fellow brothers in arms at a ramp ceremony at Baghram Air Base in Afghanistan?
Are we wrong to assume that the Harris/Walz campaign is another campaign of deceit and deception? Jonathan; can you ask Dennis to take a few minutes to explain how Harris actually is stronger on border security than Trump? If he can explain how it truly is JB Vance who is “weird” – rather than Tampon Tim, who forced the state’s schools to put tampon dispensers in the boys bathrooms in elementary schools, empowering prepubescent children to choose tranny castration and sterilization as rite of teenage passage, and celebrating elective birth control abortions right up to the moment of birth (more accurately: death)?
I recall Dennis McIntyre recently pronouncing that an AR-15 was a “weapon of war” (the identical words of AWOL Walz) that would “totally destroy a deer” if a hunter used one to hunt with. Given AWOL Waltz’s pronouncement at being a war veteran familiar with the devastating results of the AR-15 as the weapon he carried fighting for his life in TICs while deployed in combat zones, I wonder if Dennis’s deer hunting expert and other close personal friend is none other than Governor AWOL Waltz.
Dennis McIntyre claims to be an expert at ferreting out lying and deception. I hope he will take a few unscripted moments today to assure us that we are not facing an empty campaign of lies and deception from Harris and Waltz.
Old Airborne Dog,
Dennis is nothing but a DNC lacky. He does not have an original thought in his head. He does nothing but parrots DNC talking points ad nauseam. I generally just scroll past is blathering nonsense.
However, his obvious jealousy of the good professor’s success and popularity is rather amusing.
“Jonathan: when your very dear friend, Dennis McIntyre shows up today
to use your comment section as his personal blog to go off topic…”
Then Old Dog goes off topic, as if this is his own personal blog.
Then Old Dog goes off topic, as if this is his own personal blog.
Glad you read it – can you fill in for Baghdad Bob McIntyre and explain how Tampon Tim really did stand at Baghram Air Base during a ramp ceremony, holding an AR-15 Weapon Of War that he had been using fighting for his life in TICs? Or how Round Heels Harris actually is tougher on Illegal Aliens on the southern border than Trump was/is?
Other than that, two things, you feckless cowardly Anonymous Soviet Democrat Marxist Useful Idiot:
1. I post far, far more that is directly on topic and engaging in discussions than just exposing your fellow Marxist Brother From A Different Father, Dennis McIntyre who performs here as the Soviet Democrats’ Baghdad Bob. Culls like you NEVER do that… you snipe (poorly) from the Anonymous shadows.
2. Predictably, you defend Dennis/Baghdad Bob who does NOTHING but post off topic screeds on schedule here every day – but suddenly, you cosplay at noticing off-topic posts just as well as you cosplay as a woman to get into the bathrooms intended for little girls.
Having a problem trying to figure out how you can quit hiding and quaking in fear back in the shadows, unable to self-identify (other than as a man cosplaying as a woman)?
Try putting a username to your posts, you spineless coward – if your brother Dennis can do it, then you can do it as well.
Signed
Old Airborne Dog
I am no coward.
‘Old Dog’, again, pointing out your BS
ISN’T a defense of ‘Dennis’.
Gonna call you Old Anonymous Dog from now on.
^^Signed: Hiding Behind A Screen Name Like Old Anonymous Dog Or Upstate
C’mon you guys – I need some applause and recognition for bravely calling out Old Anonymous Dog Or Upstate. Please give it up!
‘Old Dog’, again, pointing out your BS
Again, displaying your cowardice at refusing to use the same username for all your posts, while you support Dennis and his lies – another Cheap Fake American Soviet Democrat Brother From A Different Commie Father who at least uses the same username every time he posts.
If your claim is you lack the intellect (or a young child at home to show you how) to have a username attached to all your posts, here’s another way you can do it:
Signed,
Old Airborne Dog
When you get past that, then you can post your surname and where you live, and I’ll meet your discovery of where you left your spine and gonads by doing the same with my legal name and where I live.
“Then you can post your surname and where you live,”
Why don’t you go first, coward?
You’re the one who keeps bringing it up.
Or admit that you use that horse shit in a lame ass left wing like attempt to discredit. What difference does it make (in terms of bravery, asshat) whether he signs in as Anonymous or Peter Puffer?
It doesnt take any more balls for you to use your stupid ass valor stealing name than it does him to use anonymous.
*SENATOR KEELEY
Having some handle allows people the privilege of skipping your comments. Personally airborne dog and upstate stay on topic and generally cleanly.
Signed,
SENATOR KEELEY
Donald J. Trump
Mar A Lago
1100 S. Ocean Blvd
Palm Beach, FL 33480
Why don’t you go first, coward?
I will when you grow a tiny little set of nads, borrow a few inches of spine and three feet of guts from the little girls you molest and start posting with a username. Something that your fellow left wing culls Dennis McIntyre, Gigi, and Fishlips have enough courage to do when posting their crap.
I suggest you post under ‘Cosplaying Female Kiddy Fondler’. But you should pick whatever you think is meaningful in your clearly worthless life.
And this is why your mother tells everyone she didn’t give birth to any children who lived.
Signed,
Old Airborne Dog (always, every single time I post)
“Lil Bow Wow” is the archetypal brave and courageous a–hole behind the keyboard.
It/she/her must be BANNED FOR LIFE for its obsessive and compulsive aggression, vitriol, pugnacity, and continuous violation of the Civility Rule.
Old Airborne Dog, you are wrong. Trump did not have sleazy sex with Stormy Daniels. He was at home holding Melania and Barron in his warm fatherly arms.
Old Airborne Dog, you are wrong. Trump did not have sleazy sex with Stormy Daniels. He was at home holding Melania and Barron in his warm fatherly arms.
Either way would still be better than Biden balling his teenage daughter in those “Daddy-Daughter inappropriate showers” the drug addict daughter wrote she wondered if that’s why she became both a drug addict and sexual deviant. And ditto, better than then Senator Biden raping one of his young interns. Or if you want to keep going back, better than weeping widower Senator Biden balling the babysitter before she became Dr. Jill before his wife and child’s bodies were even cold in the ground.
Anyone who isn’t an Anonymous Cheap Fake American would know that between the two, one is much better than the other.
“There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy.” (Walz)
Want to understand Walz’s love affair with communist China (and why KH chose him)? That quote is why.
Walz (and KH) envy China’s control over the individual’s life, from cradle to grave. China violates free speech to combat “subversion of state power.” Walz and KH violate free speech to combat “threats to democracy” (with the Left as the voice of democracy).
To maintain total control over the internet, and to quell dissent, China erected the tyrannical “Great Firewall.” To achieve the same tyrannical ends, KH and Walz use the fascist technique of controlling companies that control the internet.
China uses the “Golden Shield Project” to monitor and spy on its citizens. KH and Walz use lackey social media companies and citizen hotlines (aka citizens as government spies).
Except Walz is right. The First Amendment does not protect all hate speech. It does not protect hate speech that constitutes unlawful incitement, true threats, intimidation, or discriminatory harassment.
The 1st protects speech.
Speech may not cause damage.
The 2nd protects arms.
Arms may not cause damage.
None of this is a freedom of speech issue. The government is allowed to provide accurate information to companies and encourage them to decline to disseminate false information. Censorship is the government mandating that speech be suppressed, like we see in the book bans in Republican states.
Harris pledged that her administration “will hold social media platforms accountable for the hate infiltrating their platforms, because they have a responsibility to help fight against this threat to our democracy.”
I reject your reality and substitute my own—Sammy Metamucil in his morning turd
What does “hold accountable” mean to you, spastic?
This is the dumbest comment of the day so far. Get a job.
“None of this is a freedom of speech issue.”
Way to miss the point as usual, Sammy the Spastic
“There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy.”—Walz
Sounds like a freedom of speech issue.
Loser. Get a grip on yourself.
Speech to children has always been regulated, dum dum.
The government is allowed to provide accurate information to companies and encourage them to decline to disseminate false information.
Sammy’s idea of Soviet Democrats in government providing accurate information to companies is when they “leak” to corporate mainstream media that they have a “Russia Dossier” (all verified of course) that proves Trump is the bought and paid for stooge of Russia. A dossier not from the filthy minds of Clinton/Obama/Biden/the DNC, but from US intelligence agencies. That’s truth – NOT “disseminating false information”.
Sammy’s idea of Soviet Democrats providing accurate information is when they tell social media that the Biden Bribery Laptop does not belong to The First Gun Felon Son, but is instead “Russian Election Disinformation” and news media writing about it must be cancelled and suspended. When government Soviet Democrats do that, Sammy claims that those politicians are Protecting Our Democracy (trademarked) from the “dissemination of false information”.
Clearly, Sammy is a Cheap Fake American.
Oh… and Sammy’s complaints about “book bans”. Sammy is also a pedophile groomer, outraged that this “book bans” prevent her/he/it from stocking the local elementary school with copies of Hustler Magazine, complete with the centerfold splayed legs crotch shots of gaping vaginas for the kiddies to admire while thinking of what they want to ask Santa to give them for Christmas.
And yet, the government has not provided accurate information. In fact, the government has issued inaccurate information from COVID to climate change and more. They rely on dupes like you to believe them.
No one is banning books. If you want pornographic material of boy on boy sex, you can buy them in any state.
In some states, they have made it illegal to display that pornographic material in elementary schools. Amoral people like you want that kind of thing in schools as pedo groomers that you are.
And yet, the government has not provided accurate information.
Upstate, before Cheap Fake Americans led by Obama formed the new Soviet Democrat party, we used to call it “lying”, rather than “not providing accurate information”.
Political lies to conceal the truth not just from American voters and taxpayers, but often to conceal the truth from Congressional oversight. Changing the language and getting Americans to accept the new language and definitions is half the battle. As Orwell wrote in his book ‘1984’: “the revolution will be complete with the language is perfect”
Remember “If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor; if you like your health care plan you can keep your health care plan”?
Remember “The average American family will save $2,500 a year on medical expenses”?
Remember “Our Ambassador and those former SEALS who were murdered in Benghazi was an unfortunate incident where a protest against an offensive YouTube video got out of hand”?
Remember “I didn’t know my SecState Clinton used nothing but illegal and unsecured cellphones and mail servers the entire four years we were communicating classified information until I learned that now that she’s running for president”?
Or how about “I don’t know anything about my son’s business partners from the governments of Communist China and Russia paying him tens of millions of dollars, and I’ve certainly never spoken with any of them or met them in the Vice President’s office”?
You don’t use “manually operated excavation tool” to refer to a shovel.
Doesn’t work any better when you call lies and liars “disinformation and disinformation experts”.
*SENATOR KEELEY
Hear hear
Remember “Frankly, we did win this election.”
“None of this is a freedom of speech issue.” —
They parroted, as their fellow citizens were transported to the Gulag.
Not sure who is more evil: those who concoct tyrannical policies, or their appeasers and apologists. Probably the latter. They make the former possible.
Yes, and a member of the Mafia saying ‘nice store you got here, be a shame if anything happened to it’ is not extortion.
On the other side we have Orange Hitler in a state of growing mental decline.
@Oscar
That isn’t working on anyone anymore, try again. If you aren’t a troll, maybe take a look in the mirror once in a while. Someday, the likes of you may be grateful some of us actually cared about this. Then again, you may be so insulated you don’t notice and don’t care. Doesn’t matter, we’ll know. The stalwart few have always carried the many, and seldom sought accolades.
Keep in mind that Oscar typed this entirely with his left hand and his pants around his ankles. That couldn’t have been easy.
LMAO
I know you are but what am I?
Dupes like you blindly believe the “Hitler” narrative provided to you by your DNC betters. You are too dumb to make an assessment on your own without DNC supervision.
On the other side we have Orange Hitler in a state of growing mental decline.
And Oscar, the Birthing Person Soviet Democrat Marxist Useful Idiot signals that he is so brilliant that he defended Bribery Biden, President Daddy-Daughter Inappropriate Sex Showers as an intellectual genius just three weeks ago – and yet now with that same genius has decided Trump is in mental decline.
Freud referred to this activity as “channeling” when he wrote about treating sexual deviants: he observed that they saw in others the exact same flaws, sins, and mental illness that they themselves were trying to deal with.
Unlike Freud’s patients, there’s about zero chance Oscar is seeking professional psychiatric care to deal with his sexual deviance. Among Soviet Democrat Marxist Useful Idiots, mental illness is celebrated and channeling personal sexual dysfunction is a rite of passage to membership in the Soviet Democrat party.
Just because Trump emphatically posted that Harris used artificial intelligence to create a photo showing thousands of people greeting her on the flight line and backed it up by saying a maintenance worker at the airport exposed it… and then it was shown that Trump fabricated the maintenance worker story and his entire unhinged set of posts… just because he lies like this all the time and it’s getting worse, you say he’s in mental decline. Yeah, right.