Below is my column in The Hill on the move of the European Union to force Elon Musk to censor X users, including political speech leading up to the 2024 election. The column discusses this Rockwell painting, which we often use in discussing free speech controversies.
Here is the column:
Eighty years ago, the U.S. government launched a war bond campaign featuring a painting by artist Norman Rockwell in the struggle against the authoritarian threat from Europe. The picture they chose was Rockwell’s Freedom of Speech depicting a man rising to speak his mind at a local council meeting in Vermont. The image rallied the nation around what Louis Brandeis called our “indispensable right.”
Now, that very right is again under attack from another European government, which is claiming the right to censor what Americans are allowed to say about politics, science and other subjects. Indeed, the threat from the European Union may succeed in curtailing American freedom to an extent that the Axis powers could not have imagined. They may win, and our leaders have not said a thing yet about it.
In my book “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I discuss the inspiration for Rockwell’s painting: a young selectman in Vermont named James “Buddy” Edgerton. The descendent of a Revolutionary War hero, Edgerton stood up as the lone dissenter to a plan to build a new schoolhouse over the lack of funding for such construction.
For Rockwell, the scene was a riveting example of how one man in this country can stand alone and be heard despite overwhelming opposition to his views. It was, for Rockwell (and for many of us), the quintessential American moment.
In the 1940s, people like Edgerton had to travel to small board meetings or public spaces to speak their mind. Today, the vast majority of political speech occurs over the Internet and specifically social media. That is why the internet is the single greatest advancement for free speech since the printing press.
It is also the reason governments have spent decades seeking to control speech over the internet, to regulate what people can say or read.
One of the greatest threats to free speech today is the European Digital Services Act. The act bars speech that is viewed as “disinformation” or “incitement.” European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager celebrated its passage by declaring that it is “not a slogan anymore, that what is illegal offline should also be seen and dealt with as illegal online. Now it is a real thing. Democracy’s back.”
In Europe, free speech is in free fall. Germany, France, the United Kingdom and other countries have eviscerated free speech by criminalizing speech deemed inciteful or degrading to individuals or groups. The result had made little difference to the neo-Nazi movement in countries like Germany, which is reaching record numbers. It has, however, silenced the rest of society.
According to polling, only 18 percent of Germans feel free to express their opinions in public. Fifty-nine percent of Germans do not even feel free expressing themselves in private among friends. Only 17 percent feel free to express themselves on the internet.
They have silenced the wrong people, but there is now a massive censorship bureaucracy in Europe and the desire to silence opposing voices has become insatiable.
Some in this country have the same taste for speech-regulation. After Elon Musk bought Twitter and dismantled most of the company’s censorship program, many on the left went bonkers. That fury only increased when Musk released the “Twitter files,” confirming the long-denied coordination and support by the government in targeting and suppressing speech.
In response, Hillary Clinton and other Democratic figures turned to Europe and called upon them to use their Digital Services Act to force censorship against Americans.
The EU immediately responded by threatening Musk with confiscatory penalties against not just his company but himself. He would have to resume massive censorship or else face ruin.
It was a case of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object. The anti-free speech movement had finally found the one man who could not be bullied, coerced or threatened into submission.
Musk’s defiance has only magnified the unrelenting attacks against him in the media, academia and government. If Musk can be broken, these figures will once again exercise effective control over a large swath of speech globally.
This campaign recently came to a head when Musk had the audacity to interview former president Donald Trump. In anticipation of the interview, one of the most notorious anti-free speech figures in the world went ballistic.
European Commissioner for Internal Markets and Services Thierry Breton issued a threatening message to Musk, “We are monitoring the potential risks in the EU associated with the dissemination of content that may incite violence, hate and racism in conjunction with major political — or societal — events around the world, including debates and interviews in the context of elections.”
While offering a passing nod to the freedom of speech, he warned Musk that “all proportionate and effective mitigation measures are put in place regarding the amplification of harmful content in connection with relevant events.” In other words, be afraid, be very afraid.
Musk responded with “Bonjour!” and then suggested that Breton perform a physically challenging sexual act.
To recap, the EU is now moving to force censorship upon American citizens to meet its own demands of what is false, demeaning or inciting. And that includes censorship even of our leading political candidates for the presidency.
The response from the Biden administration was not a presidential statement warning any foreign government from seeking to limit our rights or even Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling the EU ambassador to his office for an expression of displeasure.
That’s because Biden and Harris are not displeased with but supportive of letting the EU do what they are barred from doing under our Constitution. This administration is arguably the most anti-free speech government since John Adams signed the Sedition Act. They have supported a massive system of censorship, blacklisting and targeting of opposing voices. Democratic members have given full-throated support for censorship, including pushing social media companies to expand in areas ranging from climate control to gender identity.
So, after only 80 years, our leaders are silent as a European government threatens to reduce our political speech to the lowest common denominator, which they will set according to their own values. Not a shot will be fired as Biden and Harris simply yield our rights to a global governing system.
But we do not have to go quietly into this night. Free speech remains a human right that is part of our DNA as Americans. We can fight back and protect millions of Edgertons who want to express their views regardless of the judgment of the majority.
I previously called for legislation to get the U.S. government out of the censorship business domestically. We also need new legislation to keep other countries from regulating the speech of our own citizens and companies. While this country has long threatened retaliation in combatting market barriers in other countries, we need to do the same thing for free speech. We need a federal law that opposes the intrusion of the Digital Services Act into the U.S.
If free speech is truly the “indispensable right” of all Americans, we need to treat this threat as an attack on our very existence. It is not only the rawest form of foreign intervention into an election, but a foreign attack on our very freedoms. This is why we must pass a Digital Freedom Act.
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 & Schuster).
* the golden fleece
*SENATOR KEELEY
The EU is attempting to get an infrastructure in place to serve the participating nations. The agenda is unclear. Professor says in this article the DSA had little effect on the growing neo-nazi group in Germany? Germany is a big financial funder of the organization?
Yes, the United States is in great disarray. There are 27 nations in the EU participating? Concerning.
Who is this shadow government in the US?
The DNC convention is some satire, mockery, parody or what? Puppets.
Tragedy
I missed the point of Turley’s post! Oooo, the EU has threatened to extradite or punish them with fines or passport lists maybe Americans for breaking EU digital service guidelines , laws. I get it now!
Yes, wholeheartedly agree with professor Turley and the digital free speech international law.
“I GIVE YOU MY WORD AS A BIDEN”
AS IF THAT MEANS JACK SH*T???
SHUT THE F*CK UP YOU GD CRIMINAL DIVISIVE LYING SCUMBAG TRAITOR.
LOCK HIM THE F UP. DO IT NOW GOP.
DO. IT. NOW.
GET THIS DANGEROUS DEMENTED DEMAGOGUE LYING LUNATIC OUT OF POWER. RIGHT. NOW.
LIKE EVERY BIDEN SPEECH THAT WAS A SCARY ASS SPEECH.
ARE YOU GONNA KEEP LOCKING UP YOUR POLITICAL OPPONENTS JOE BIDEN?
GFY GFY GFY GFY GFY YOU ANGRY M’Fin’g DICTATOR & CRIMINAL!
FOX NEWS CAN SHUT THEIR MOUTHS PRAISING GD JOE BIDEN.
“HIS LAST MEANINGFUL MOMENT” ???? WHERE HE ANGRILY DEMONIZES MORE THAN HALF THIS COUNTRY IN A DIVISIVE ANGRY SCARY SPEECH FULL FLAT-OUT LIES??
SHUT UP FAKE FOX NEWS. YOU SUCK AS MUCH AS THE REST OF THE FAKE NEWS.
YOU ARE FAKE NEWS LYING SCUMBAGS TOO.
SORRY, for all the ALL CAPS comments venting about JOE F’cking Biden.
The anger is overflowing right now.
Not just me, but in the entire country.
The country is behind Trump and MAGA policies. NOT Joe F’n Biden or Kamala F’n Harris & Commie AWOLz.
The polls are fake. This is NOT a close race.
The country is not going Dem COMMUNIST. Not now. Not ever.
Kamala the Incompetent Hoe is never taking power. Not now. Not ever.
Joe Biden MUST BE IMPEACHED AND CRIMINALLY PROSECUTED FOR HIS CRIMES AGAINST THE COUNTRY.
Sue for DEFAMATION every single Democrat who calls Donald J. Trump a “convicted felon.”
Sue JOE BIDEN for DEFAMATION!
Sue EVERY DEMOCRAT FOR DEFAMATION and MAKE THEM PAY THE PRICE. MAKE THEM SUFFER for their CRIMES!
DONALD J TRUMP IS A CONVICTED FELON
DONALD J TRUMP IS A CONVICTED FELON
DONALD J TRUMP IS A CONVICTED FELON
There MUST BE retribution.
DEMOCRATS MUST PAY FOR THEIR CRIMES AGAINST THE COUNTRY and CRIMES against targeted POLITICAL ENEMIES and law abiding citizens.
LOCK THEM THE EFF UP. And throw away the keys.
@julie_kelly2
“Let’s relish tonight.
A DC fixture for half a century who made millions off America’s enemies and stole the 2020 election just publicly conceded his race to Donald Trump after being bullied out of a 2nd term by his own party.
We’re going to win.”
Yes and FJB. F his wife too.
“How have Biden and the other primetime speakers tonight not said a word about President Trump being shot and nearly assassinated?”
Interesting question.
MAGA IS A TINY INSANE FACTION WHICH, ALONG WITH THEIR ROTTEN LEADER DONALD TRUMP, WILL SOON FADE AWAY INTO NOTHING
Nope.
MAGA is not going away.
The Democrat party is going away.
EVERYONE LISTENING TO JOE BIDEN SPEAK RIGHT NOW SHOULD BE VERY AFRAID FOR OUR SAFETY, THE RULE OF LAW, OUR COUNTRY.
THIS MAN IS AN ANGRY, DELUSIONAL, DEMENTED, LYING, CORRUPT, TREASONOUS SELLOUT.
HE IS LOCKING UP HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS AND ENEMIES RIGHT NOW.
JOE BIDEN IS LYING THRU HIS FAKE TEETH ABOUT KAMALA HARRIS.
GET HIM OFF STAGE AND OUT OF OFFICE RIGHT NOW.
JOE BIDEN IS A DIVISIVE LYING PSCYOPATH LYING PSYCHOPATH LYING PSYCHOPATH!!
THIS MAN IS A DANGEROUS DEMAGOGUE, WHO IS OUT OF CONTROL.
DO SOMETHING GOP. DO SOMETHIGN RIGHT NOW YOU LOSERS.
JOE BIDEN IS A DANGEROUS DEMENTED DIVISIVE ANGRY PSYCHOPATH WHO IS ON STAGE AT THE DNC LYING OUT OF HIS LUNATIC MOUTH.
JOE BIDEN IS A SCARY LUNATIC FREAK WHO IS LYING THRU HIS TEETH AND THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA HAS ALLOWED HIS FREAKIN LIES FOR YEARS.
JOE BIDEN IS A DANGEROUS DEMENTED PSYCHOPATH.
WHAT THE F IS WRONG WITH THE CORRUPT GOP????
YOU DROP Y0UR REPORT ON BIDEN’S CORRUPTION NOW? TODAY? TO BE BURIED BY THE FAKE NEWS?
WHEN IT IS TOO LATE? WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU, GOP?
GET THIS DIVISIVE CORRUPT LYING ANGRY LUNATIC OUT OF POWER RIGHT NOW!
JOE BIDEN IS A THREAT TO THE SECURITY OF THE ENTIRE COUNTRY.
GET HIM THE EFF OUT OF POWER RIGHT NOW!
WHAT THE F IS WRONG WITH YOU, GOP?????????????????
DO SOMETHING YOU GD INCOMPETENT IDIOTS.
WE ARE IN DANGER IN THIS COUNTRY EVERY MINUTE THIS DIVISIVE DEMENTED LUNATIC JOE BIDEN IS IN POWER. GET HIM THE EFF OUT RIGHT NOW!
Recently, a judge in Brazil ordered Musk to remove material the judge found objectionable. Musk decided that the best course of action was to remove his platform from Brazil altogether. It is a shame that governments around the world are limiting speech using criteria that are so plastic. As far as Musk is concerned, I wouldn’t count removing his platform from Brazil to be a big loss.
Have the laws against prior restraint and 18 USC §245 1. & 2. and 594 been repealed? Otherwise the mere act of this EEC idiot writing that letter might be construed as election interference.
Anyone trying to listen to the LUNATICS speaking at the DNC is witnessing exactly what this country DOES NOT NEED IN POWER. KEEP THE F’N LUNATIC CORRUPT LYING CRIMINAL DEMOCRATS OUT OF POWER BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY THESE FREAKS WILL NEVER HOLD POWER AGAIN! LOCK THEM ALL UP.
DNC = DEMOCRAT FREAK SHOW
LOCK THEM UP THEY ARE ALL CRIMINAL LIARS, FREAKS & PSYCHOPATHS
JAMIE RASKIN IS A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR, CORRUPT SCUMBAG POLITICIAN WHO BELONGS IN PRISON!
LOCK HIM UP. SHUT HIM UP.
MAGA AND DONALD TRUMP ARE TOAST
EITHER PROGRESS AND MOVE FORWARD OR FESTER AND ROT
NO ONE WILL MISS YOU
Your “march forward” is over a cliff as history proves over and over. Well waive on your way down and then go live in the better country remaining.
I STAND BY MY WORDS
You are a BRAINWASHED f*cking lunatic. GFY
words that are obviously stupid.
Everything new is not good.
Real progress requires sorting wheat from chaffe – there are far more new bad ideas than good ones.
And there are very few ideas – good or bad that do not get worse when implimented by FORCE – aka government.
THERE IS TRUTH IN THOSE PROPHETIC WORDS, MR. SAY. YOU AND A FEW OTHERS ON THIS COMMENT SECTION HAVE GOTTEN THEIR FEEWINGS HURT BECAUSE THE NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT IS NOW ON THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION AND THE PARTY OF TRUMP IS CIRCLING THE DRAIN
KOMMIELA CALLS IT FWEEDOM. SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR FWEEDOM.
SAY GOODBYE TO THE CONSTITUTION. SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR GOD-GIVEN RIGHTS.
DEMOCRATS ARE THE AUTHORITARIANS AS WE SAW DURING COVID.
KOMMIELA IS A FASCIST. SHE WILL USE STATE POWER TO FORCE WHATEVER “CHANGE” THEY WANT. SHE’S DONE IT BEFORE. WATCH HER TALK ABOUT THE POWER SHE HAD OVER SOMEONE WITH THE ‘SWIPE OF HER PEN.’ SHE IS THE FASCIST.
TRUMP IS RISING.
WE THE PEOPLE ARE RISING.
DEMOCRATS WILL FALL
THEN DISAPPEAR WITH THEIR EVIL DEEP INTO THE ABYSS.
RETRIBUTION IS COMING.
GOD’S WILL BE DONE.
Mespo: I think you mean “…will wave on your way down…”. Forgot how to spell? You musta really got pissed.
True dat.
Mespo: You mean, “WILL WAVE on your way down.” Forgot how to spell?
NO ONE WILL MISS DEMENTED CORRUPT LYING SACK OF SH*T SCUM JOE BIDEN WHO YOUR PARTY REMOVED UN-CEREMONIOUSLY and UN DEMOCRATICALLY — JUST LIKE THE LAWLESS MAFIA CRIMINALS THEY ARE.
DEMOCRATS are EVIL
DEMOCRATS ARE THE HATERS
DEMOCRATS ARE THE CRIMINALS
DEMOCRATS ARE THE PARTY OF KKK, SLAVERY, SEGREGATION.
DEMOCRATS ARE LYING SCUMBAG LAWBREAKING CRIMINAL PSYCHOPATHS WHO BELONG NOWHERE NEAR POWER.
Every new idea is not a good idea, that is the core failure to progressivism.
In fact in the real world the vast majority of new ideas are bad.
Free marketrs are very good at separating good ideas from bad ideas and the only people who suffer from bad ideas are those who push them.
Wise people do not seek to put failure into government,
And therefore do as little as possible inside govenrment.
Real progress occurs completely independent of government.
Using government to force your ideas on everyone is not progress it is fascism.
JOE BIDEN, poorest member of Congress. YOU F’n LIAR
Ask Joe, how did your family get at least $30 MILLION in CORRUPT BRIBES from FOREIGN ENEMY NATIONS?
WAS IT ALL TAX FREE JOE BIDEN?
WHO PAID TAX ON YOUR BIDEN CRIME FAMILY INCOME?
YOU F*CKING CRIMINAL TREASONOUS TRAITOR.
LOCK THEM ALL UP.
F*CK JOE BIDEN F*CK JOE BIDEN F*CK JOE BIDEN F*CK JOE BIDEN
JOE BIDEN IS ONE OF THE NASTIEST MOST CORRUPT MOST LYING SCUMBAG DIVISIVE ANGRY PSYCHOPATH LUNATIC CRIMINAL POLITICIANS TO EVER HOLD HIGH OFFICE.
LOCK THE M*THER F&CKER UP and THROW AWAY THE KEYS.
JOE BIDEN IS A DEMENTED ANGRY LYING DANGEROUS SCUMBAG PIECE OF SH*T WHO NEEDS TO BE PROSECUTED AND CONVICTED AND LOCKED THE EFF UP FOR THE REST OF HIS SCUMBAG POS LIFE.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS MAN WHO SHOULD BE NOWHERE NEAR POWER. NOT NOW. NOT EVER.
LOCK THIS F’N CRIMINAL DIVISIVE PATHOGICAL LYING SCUMBAG IN PRISON. TO DIE.
BIDEN IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN HITLER EVER WAS.
LOCK HIM THE F UP. NOW.
“Hillary Clinton belongs in prison. I applauded Trump’s magnanimity, but after she taunted him over the Stormy Daniels prosecution — remember who *she* is married to — I think Trump should reopen all of Hillary’s crimes, including corruption, abuse of government docs, and more.”
“Hillary Clinton taunts Trump as “the first person to run for president with 34 felony convictions.” Totally bogus, a partisan prosecution. Hillary broke laws on gov’t documents; she was later fined for hiding payments for “Russia collusion” hoax. #DNC2024 chants: “Lock him up.”
“Hillary for Prison 2025”. @joelpollak
Hillary for Prison! Joe Biden for Prison! RETRIBUTION for THEIR CRIMES? OH HELL YEAH. LET’S GO!
* craziness is exhausting and boring. Heads up Dems, no matter what you do, how punishing you may be, you’ll never be envied.
Got my donkey, eggs and some lemons. See you at the farmers market to trade.
If you expect nothing you’ll never be disappointed.
Thanks for the laughs
The Musk Trump conversation was quite nice. DJT talked about ducking down immediately at the rally and he could hear bullets going by overhead. It was quite candid.
The Republicans really need to get serious. What’s happening is wrong. The anti Israel demonstrations are wrong. 1200 Israeli people were massacred.
You’re on the wrong road.
“Not a shot will be fired as Biden and Harris simply yield our rights to a global governing system. … We need a federal law that opposes the intrusion of the Digital Services Act into the U.S.“
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I simply do not understand JT’s surprise, dismay and handwringing over the Dims incessant attacks on free speech and other basic American rights. It’s like he’s seeing instance after instance of their abuse but refuses to believe they are abusers because he once was a Dim himself or his family was or whatever. Time changes everything and the JFK Dims of JT’s youth have dissolved into the mists of time. Today the Dims are a clear and present danger to our way of life as well as our freedom. They need to be opposed and ridiculed at every turn. Expecting the enemies of freedom to defend it is like expecting the wolf to protect the lambs. Look if someone shows you who they are — over and over again — believe them.
Mespo, we do not need a law, we have a constitution.
We just need a president willing to follow it.
Jonathan: Like you, I am glued to the TV watching the DNC in Chicago. Now I predict that DJT will claim that the huge Dem audience this week at the United Center was all “A-I generated”. Right? A pretty safe prediction!
Anyway, your worst nightmare has come true. For a year and a half the MAGA Republicans, led by the “two Jim’s”, tried to find evidence that Joe Biden took bribes. I can’t count the number of columns you wrote cheering on Comer and Jordan–and trying to make the case for impeachment. Finally, it all ended in failure.
Now Comer and Jordan have thrown in the towel. They just issued their final report that doesn’t include articles of impeachment–not even the bribery allegation you were pushing for so long. The report will only be presented to the full House for “consideration of appropriate next steps”. We know what that means. The report will stand for the most ginned up politically motivated impeachment inquiry in the history of the House. The report will get an “F” grade by historians.
As Jamie Raskin pointed out about the just issued joint report: “What do you call a hellbent 20-month impeachment drive whose managers finally just dissolve into compulsive repetition of thoroughly discredited and meaningless accusations? I would call it a complete exoneration of the target of their pathetic attacks”.
And where does that leave your extraordinary effort to get Joe Biden impeached. Dead and buried. In a bit of irony, Joe Biden is not even the Democratic candidate!
Dennis – conventions are not generally open to the public. And this one DEFINITIELY is not,
Dem’s are taking no chances that half a dozen Proi Hamas protestors will sneak in.
You get to the Democratic convention by winning a spot as a delegate during the primary,
or by being a democratic party super delegate or by being an official in the DNC.
Or by being a member of the press – and they are checking press credentials thoroughly.
I know this is hard for you – but this is not a “public rally”.
It is likely Trump will attack the Convention – if it has poor ratings.
But it might not.
There are many reasons people watch.
Because Harris is still an unknown and after her botched economic policy roll out aparently Mucks AI video where Obama told Harris just to shut up and let them rig the election came true. Rumor has it that Harris was told “no more policies without approval from the puppetmaster”
Regardless, people will bve trying to learn who Kamala really is.
They MIGHT get a little glimpse at the Convention.
Soem might be wathcing to see if we get 1968 style riots., There are lots of well behaved protestors. There are some supportive protestors,
But there are alot of not so well behaved protestors,. There has already been violence.
But the Chicaog police are responding with a very heavy hand.
Aparently Democrats and Kamala do NOT want to defund the Chicago police – atleast not this week.
I am having a fun time watching myself.
In keeping with the topic I am wondering why the EU is not shutting down the distribution of the Democratic convention – as there is so massively much outrageous misinformation.
The convention itself is pretty screwed up – Neither the organizers, nor the participants seem to be able to figure out who their candidate is or what their platform is. Why that is present in uncorrected documentation. It is also evident in the convention itself.
Aparently you can not read – Bribery evidence is all through the report.
Will the republicans impeach ? Probably not. Though they might – that was not the job of this committee.
So according to your logic – If Trump had chosen not to Run in 2020, then the democrats should not have impeached him ?
Right, it’s a “complete exoneration.”
Only a brainwashed Democrat could say that.
It is OBVIOUS corruption. OBVIOUS bribery. OBVIOUS to all but brainwashed Democrats.
Your Party, with its psychotic ‘leaders,’ demonic lies, total disrespect for their voters, has done this to you.
You are unable to see, to think, to comprehend ANYTHING BUT what THE PARTY tells you to think, feel, say, do.
It’s mental illness.
You are no longer a free-thinking human being with a free conscience.
You, Dennis, have allowed yourself to become nothing more than a brainwashed zombie.
Congratulations on you full transition to brain-dead zombie.
Your mind is now fully captured.
Indoctrinated into the Democrat Zombie Apocalypse.
Make sure you are up to date on your “vaxxinations”.
You must wear you “mask”.
The Party told you to do it.
YOU WILL COMPLY.
Message for Dennis:
‘The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.’
Free speech is an excellent concept if you have a public that has can read, reason, knows a bit of history and stays informed of current events. On has only to look at the DNC in Chicago this week. Less than 20% of Chicago public school students can read or do math at the grade level they are in. This level of education does not bode well for free speech in our country.
Where I live, everyone is a douche bag who needs to have some consideration beaten into them by the police.
The EU Just Declared War on Free Speech in America. It is Time to Fight Back
FU to the EU!!!
Sounds like the EU is getting uppity again.
Jonathan: DJT is now over the hill in his narcissistic sociopathy. The Hill is reporting today that on Saturday DJT posted, on both TS and X, a fake photo of Kamala Harris addressing a fake Communist event in Chicago. DJT commented: “After causing catastrophic inflation [?], Comrade Kamala announced that she wants to institute socialist price controls”. This latest fake photo comes after DJT falsely claimed all the crowds at the Harris/Walz rallies were “AI-generated”.
DJT is clearly running scared. Recent polls show Harris ahead in national polls. A new ABC/WP/Ipsos poll shows Harris leading DJT 50% to 45% nationally. That is driving DJT crazy so he trots out his frequent claim that all the recognized polls are “fake”. And Fox News has joined the DJT campaign by providing an echo chamber for DJT’s false claim. Here is a sampling from over the weekend:
–Jesse Waters said on his Fox show: “I had my team look into it. Turns out the pollsters are dramatically oversampling Democrats and then burying the samples so you can’t see it”. There is no way Waters’ “team” was privy to how the poll was conducted.
–Another Fox host interviewed JD Vance and asked him to explain the direction of the polls in favor of Harris. JD responded: “I think there are a lot of polls showing her stagnating and leveling…the ABC/WPost/Ipsos poll was widely inaccurate…the media consistently uses fake polls to drive down Republican turnout”. Does JD actually think that ABC,
the WP and Ipsos are engaged in a conspiracy to “drive down Republican turnout”?
At Fox it’s the big lie over and over again. Before Biden dropped out Fox was lauding the polls that showed DJT ahead in the polls. Now that the polls show Harris in the lead Fox is claiming the polls are “fake” and rigged. We’ll see more of this by Fox as we get closer to election day.
Dennis: Why do you speciously and redundantly pretend to want to advise the professor of what else is going on in the world?
Who appointed you the arbiter of important information–on someone else’s legal site?
If you find him so “hyperbol[ic] (as you accused him this very morn) and ignorant of subjects on which you are a self-declared expert, then why not start your own blog? I’m curious how many followers would leave from here to your new site. Indeed, I’d love it. THanks.
What about Article 19? I believe Thierry Breton is in violation thereof. We also do not appreciate his efforts in regard to Election Interference.
Kama La La
https://youtu.be/TPgW1U0Eidw
“THE DEMS ARE DELIGHTED. BUT A COUP IS STILL A COUP.”
– Maureen Dowd, New York Times
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“Even a stopped clock is right twice a day”
– Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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THE OBAMA COUP D’ETAT IN AMERICA CONTINUES TO ITS FINAL CONQUEST OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
KARL MARX IS SMILING DOWN ON OBAMA, THE COMMUNISTS AND THEIR TREASONABLE AMERICAN ALLIES
THE AMERICAN FOUNDERS ROLL OVER IN THEIR GRAVES
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“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
– Barack Obama
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“We will stop him.”
– Peter Strzok to FBI paramour Lisa Page
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“[Obama] wants to know everything we’re doing.”
– Lisa Page to FBI paramour Peter Strzok
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“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before 40.”
– Peter Strzok to FBI parmour Lisa Page
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“People on the 7th floor to include Director are fired up about this [Trump] server.”
– Bill Priestap
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The Obama Coup D’etat in America is the most egregious abuse of power and the most prodigious crime in American political history. The co-conspirators are:
Kevin Clinesmith, Bill Taylor, Eric Ciaramella, Rosenstein, Mueller/Team, Andrew Weissmann,
James Comey, Christopher Wray, McCabe, Strozk, Page, Laycock, Kadzic, Sally Yates,
James Baker, Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr, Priestap, Kortan, Campbell, Sir Richard Dearlove,
Christopher Steele, Simpson, Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer, Stefan “The Walrus” Halper,
Azra Turk, Kerry, Hillary, Huma, Mills, Brennan, Gina Haspel, Clapper, Lerner, Farkas, Power,
Lynch, Rice, Jarrett, Holder, Brazile, Sessions (patsy), Nadler, Schiff, Pelosi, Obama,
Joe Biden, James E. Boasberg, Emmet Sullivan, Gen. Milley, George Soros, John McCain,
Marc Elias, Igor Danchenko, Fiona Hill, Charles H. Dolan, Jake Sullivan, Strobe Talbot,
Cody Shear, Victoria Nuland, Ray “Red Hat” Epps, Don Berlin, Kathy Ruemmler, Rodney Joffe,
Paul Vixie, L. Jean Camp, Andrew Whitney, Lisa O. Monaco, Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg,
Matthew Colangelo, Merrick Garland, Juan Merchan, George Clooney, Nancy Pelosi,
Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, David Axelrod et al.
Kama La La
https://youtu.be/TPgW1U0Eidw
Kama La La
Ya, just bomb the net with total BS until AIs wires are spinning.
Respectfully need to clarify the premise of this article:
Biden is likely NOT the worst president on censorship in the 21st Century. Biden simply states his views “overtly” and publicly.
Based on my own personal experience, George W. Bush’s “covert” system of censorship and “covert” blacklisting torture program (still happening more than 20 years later) is by far worse than any other president in my lifetime.
The truth is in 2024, there is no process to remove wrongly blacklisted Americans from Bush’s fraudulent and inaccurate blacklisting program. Those innocent Americans are still censored in 2024.
I have no problems with criticizing Bush – but the govenrment hiding what it is doing – even lying about what it is doing – may be wrong but it is not censorship.
Censorship requires those in government to reach OUTSIDE government to silence people. The effect MIGHT be similar – but the morality is NOT the same.
We have established that the government may – even MUST keep secrets. Every government has done so – many go far beyond what should be kept secret. But that is still not censorship.
Blacklisting can be a form of censorship. Secret blacklists almost certainly are – and Bush instituted that – but it has continued and grown since Bush was president.
Bush and 9/11 are the START of many bad things, but everything Bush has started was expanded by Obama and especially Biden.
It is harder to tell with Trump. Trump did not focus on free speech except his own while president. There were no efforts to roll back these programs. But there do not appear to have been efforts to expand them either. In fact most continued on their own – likely without Trump or the republicans he brought in even being made aware of them. This is part of what is meant by the deep state – powers that government grabbed often illegally and unconstitutional, whose use has become common such that they continue on autopilot while at the same time remaining below the surface from new administrations.
Yes both parties have allowed unconstitutional blacklisting for at least 20 years. Every member of Congress and every president swore an oath of office not to violate anyone’s constitutional rights – they are all responsible.
Covert Blacklisting (Cointelpro tactics) is on some levels worse than an innocent person being wrongly convicted and sent to jail (overtly).
When the government operates “overtly”, the innocent American can hire attorneys and challenge those officials violating their oath of office and challenge that overt injustice in a court of law.
Covert blacklisting (Cointelpro tactics) robs Americans of legal standing to challenge these injustices in court. In other words any president of any party can grant a life-sentence of punishment to perfectly innocent Americans (covertly).
The government officials are violating the U.S. Constitution with criminal acts and the innocent Americans are denied constitutional due process.
There is strong circumstantial evidence that the family members of some agency officials are also subjected to these same unconstitutional practices – in addition to honest mistakes targeting real criminal suspects and real terrorist suspects.
In other words, for example, the children possibly of FBI officials, possibly CIA officials or possibly DOD officials are subjected to this same false imprisonment punishment.
This is dangerous for all Americans because it hides the actual cost of covert actions. For example, if you destroy the family members of covert American officials, that collateral damage is not reported to Congress. What may seem a success may be a failure harming the wrong people.
Merrick Garland and every AG since Ashcroft are fully aware of this program. DOJ still funds Fusion Centers in almost every state. Today in 2024, there is no process for any innocent person to be removed from these illegal blacklists.
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Anonymous equates captured operatives of terrorist groups being in prison to the EU and even a WAPO reporter trying to silence a candidate for president on a privately owned platform.
I guess killing Bin Laden is the same as a back alley murder since there was no trial for Bin Laden??? Should Obama be charged or do you think he has IMMUNITY, that thing you hate that the SCOTUS announced this summer?
Just remember, y’all marxists-leninists. You can be undefeated even If you don’t win every game.
J
Quinnipiac has Trump up 19 points over Harris among young voters. He led Biden by 17.
So much for the Idiot Svelaz-George and his theory that young people arent interested in conservative ideas.
Why dont you explain that, Svelaz?
Link? How old was the poll? What was the polling asking?
George – pretty close to by definition polls showing Trump over Harris are NEW, The bubble/honeymoon comes immediately after the appointment. That fades over time.
Democrats will get a few good days with the convention – if they are able to supress the rioting and keep the internal conflicts off TV.
But it is all uphill after that.
What will happen if Biden says: “I accept your nomination.”
Pretty close? The polls anonymous cited are vague and don’t show what was asked for the poll and when it was conducted.
Current polls show Harris ahead and leading in 5 swing states.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/national/
Everything you assume is heavily dependent on Trump maintaining discipline. He’s already shown he can’t stay on message and continues to hold rambling and incoherent ‘press conferences.’
Who knows, maybe the DNC will have a better outcome than the RNC. We’ll have to see how it goes.
you didn’t provide any of that when you cited your own polls, did you Georgie, especially the one about students preferences?
“ you didn’t provide any of that when you cited your own polls, did you Georgie, especially the one about students preferences?”
You sound bitter.