Dora Moutot is a feminist who has dedicated much of her life to fighting for women’s rights and has built a following on social media. Like other feminists, Moutot does not view transgender women the same as biological women. She has now joined others who are facing criminal charges for expressing those views. Transgender advocates have demanded that she be punished for her views in France.
Moutot recounted how transgender activists demanded that she be more “inclusive” in how she referred to “women.” She refused, and explained that “being a woman is a biological fact and that I didn’t think saying so should be controversial.” She was immediately denounced as a “transphobe and a TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist), a term I’d never even heard before.”
What followed was all too familiar. A cancel campaign led to her brand partnerships being canceled.In 2022, she was invited on a French TV program to discuss transgender issues with Marie Cau, France’s first transgender mayor. On the program, she was asked if she thought Cau was a woman. Moutot responded, Cau “is a man, a transfeminine man.”
That was all it took. Transgender advocates had their case and filed charges for “public insult,” which is a crime in France with a maximum punishment of one year in prison and a fine of up to €45,000 for insults committed against a person because of their sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
Free speech has long been in a free fall in France. Many disagree with Moutot and they are accorded free speech to denounce her views. However, Moutot is not extended the same protection based on the content of her views.
These laws criminalize speech under vague standards referring to “inciting” or “intimidating” others based on race or religion. For example, fashion designer John Galliano has been found guilty in a French court on charges of making anti-Semitic comments against at least three people in a Paris bar. At his sentencing, Judge Anne Marie Sauteraud read out a list of the bad words used by Galliano to Geraldine Bloch and Philippe Virgitti, including using ‘dirty whore” in criticism.
In another case, the father of French conservative presidential candidate Marine Le Pen was fined because he had called people from the Roma minority “smelly.” A French teenager was charged for criticizing Islam as a “religion of hate.”
This is a nation that still echoes the cry of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity (“liberté, égalité, fraternité”). However, in today’s France, “liberté” is no longer valued. Individual rights of religion and speech are routinely sacrificed in the name of “equity” and “fraternity.”
In my book The Indispensable Right, I discuss the decline of free speech in France and other nations. As we face our own growing anti-free speech movement, citizens need to take a long look at countries like France to see what awaits us down this path. Europe went down this slippery slope of censorship decades ago, and the desire to silence others has now become an insatiable appetite.
As in this case, activists spend more time silencing opposing views than responding to them. For transgender activists, it is intolerable for feminists like Moutot to hold contrary views. Instead of addressing her viewpoints in public, they want her declared a criminal. Censorship then becomes an insatiable appetite for groups to silence their own critics.
Moutot describes the Orwellian take on free speech in France today:
“The judge did not impose the course, but in May, I was found guilty of ‘public insult’ and fined €4,754. The judge found that though my statements were made in the context of a debate, they constituted an “abuse of freedom of expression warranting the imposition of a criminal penalty commensurate with the harm thus caused to the values protected by our democratic society.” In other words, the judge concluded my intent had been to cause harm.”
It is chilling to think of a judge willingly participating in such censorship, but this is now standard in the country. In the meantime, transgender activists are not done with Moutot, whose very existence appears to outrage them:
“In June, just weeks after my conviction, another LGBT organization filed six more complaints against me and my colleague Marguerite Stern. These new charges target specific statements we made on social media and on our feminist blog and YouTube channel Femelliste. They include our opinion that ‘men’ were ‘demanding access to our spaces’ and the question: ‘On what grounds should trans women’s fear of being mocked in men’s toilets take precedence over women’s fear of being raped?'”
This speech would be entirely protected in the United States. However, the case is a chilling cautionary tale for Americans fighting a resurgent anti-free speech movement. This is the slippery slope of censorship that awaits us if we abandon our defining commitment to free speech. After the removal of much of the censorship system established during the Biden Administration, American censors did not take jobs at Starbucks. They continue to peddle their expertise in regulating and silencing the speech of others.
It is a dire future. Just ask Dora Moutot.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the New York Times best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
A big shout out to Dr. Rachel Levine and General Milley’s woke military. Ah, the good times…
It’s like the cantina scene in Total Recall.
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Einhorn is Finkle! Finkle is Einhorn!
The Professor’s blog is apropos of the times. Hyper-sensitivity in the name of diversity is already showing dividends in France. “Mostly peaceful protests” are burning down schools and assaulting teachers in the name of… whatever!! These turds in the gene pool should be deported to the Antarctic along with their liberal hosts.
Vive le France sans
NazisTrans!Free Speech In The News
Blanche Trying To Gag Federal Judges
The Justice Department wants several Minnesota federal judges removed from immigration cases after accusing them of crossing an ethical line by publicly criticizing President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
The complaint argued the judges improperly commented on the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement while related cases were still pending, undermining public confidence in their impartiality.
The Justice Department’s complaint stemmed from a Sept. 17, 2026, New York Times article in which Judge Schiltz and Tunheim and six other Minnesota federal judges discussed the wave of immigration litigation that followed the Trump administration’s “Operation Metro Surge.” The judges described an unprecedented influx of habeas petitions and reflected on how the cases strained court resources, while also expressing concerns about aspects of the administration’s immigration enforcement efforts.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-moves-boot-federal-judges-immigration-cases-nyt-interview?
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7 Federal judges..?? That’s EVERY Federal judge in Minneapolis! The fact that all of them felt compelled to tell the NYT that the ICE raids were out of control is certainly telling.
So now AG Todd Blanche, Trump’s former (and still current lawyer) wants all these judges muzzled .
Free Speech In The News
Trump’s Ads Paid For By DHS
The Trump administration appears to have used $20 million in Department of Homeland Security funds to pay for a series of television advertisements featuring and boosting President Donald Trump ahead of the midterm elections, congressional Democrats said Tuesday.
The campaign-style ads, which have aired on broadcast and cable networks, have drawn bipartisan criticism as a blatantly partisan — and potentially illegal — misuse of taxpayer dollars. The first of the ads, in which Trump lambasted communism and socialism, began airing last week.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/29/trump-government-ads-funding-01098136
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It’s crucial for Homeland Security to let Americans know how great Trump is. ..Not..!
^ Chinese propaganda slop ^
The judges are obstructionists. They are in violation of the law. Their efforts are opposed by a clear majority of Americans. You left that part out.
30% is not a clear majority.
60% support deporting illegal aliens. 90% support deporting trolls.
Minnesota has a bug problem
Trump is the Xterminator!
That’s Estovir as 8 Ball comparing Hispanics to bugs.
Yo Soy un Hombre!
Solo los Vagos mal gente’ puto…Los Cucarrahas!
OT
Social Security and Medicare given to 18.7% of the population are pure communism and wholly unconstitutional.
Had the Founders and Framers intended for the government to provide retirement payments and retirement healthcare, it would have existed in 1789; it did not.
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AI—Artificial Intelligence (i.e., SI—Super Intelligence)
Congress has absolutely NO power to regulate the technology and software industry per Article 1, Section 8.
The 2026 technology and software industry would have been equivalent to the precision-manufacturing and scientific-instrument industry in 1789.
Article I, Section 8, makes no mention of regulating that sector or any similar sector.
Any attempt to regulate AI (i.e., SI) would be irrefutably unconstitutional.
America was designed and established to protect, secure, and guarantee rights and freedoms for individuals and to severely limit and restrict government power.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
I have address the disaster that is modern published science many times before.
This particular article is damning – but it is also crap – in that as bad as it paints the problems in current scientific publishing – it does not come CLOSE to exposing all the problems.
This article presents peer reviewers as beleguered over worked innocent dupes. The entire “peer review” concept is bankrupt.
The remedies that this article talks about are a bandaid over a compound fracture.
The article tries to address problems with statistical significance – and there is a real problem that statistically significant results are NOT always meaningful., But it ignores the fact that much of what is published does not even acheive statistical significance.
Further while high quality statistical methods extremely well applied do sometimes allow us to get solid results from small sample sizes – the quality of the results is far far more dependant of PERFECTLY fooling statistical rules and principles.
About a decade ago economist David Romer published a paper Mathematically proving that in any system with enough variables and coefficients you can rig the results to hind cast near perferfectly to support any thesis you want. He also demonstrated that this can easily happen WITHOUT the slightest intentional effort. Just small biases resulting is small changes to a few coefficients can completely shift the results.
Romers work applies not just to economics – but EVERY moderately complex scientific issue.
Science is incredibly important and the vast majority of scientists are not competent statistically.
It is possible for a researcher that is statistically clueless to produce results that are trustworthy – but doing so requires NOT taking shortcuts that make use of statistical techniques that when perfectly applied allow drawing conclusions from exponentially smaller sample sizes.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/10/01/why_so_many_social_science_claims_are_false_1209179.html
For those here on the left this is also a major reason why you MUST have those who are at odds with you within your profession – whether that is economics or political science. or astronomy or medicine.
Everything – not just science goes totally awry when there are no voices telling you that you are wrong.
“He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion.”
John Stuart Mill
One of the major reasons I frequent this blog is for the far left posts.
They are my check against stupid errors.
When the left wing nuts here do not respond to arguments, or they respond with fallacy and ad hominem – that is a strong indication they are unable to find any flaws in the arguments.
Everytime some left wing nut here responds with comments about ranting, or trying to mentally diagnose me, or any of the myriads of ther ways left wing nuts avoid addressing arguments and focus on completely unrealted fallacies – like character assassination,
That increases my confidence that I did not miss anthing consequential – or even small in my argument.
Those on the left here – and some on the right should read John Stuart Mills “on liberty”
You can get Heterodox accademies “All Minus One” – which is a translation from 19th century english to 21st century english at
https://heterodoxacademy.org/resources/all-minus-one/
Whether it is political speech or scientific research one of the more important reasons that free speech is a requirement is that we do not find our way to truth absent facing the absolute best possible arguments against our position presented by those who most ferverently oppose our position.
Without people like Moutot the French can nopt test the truth of what they believe.
In this instance – Moutot is correct. A MTF trans person is NOT a woman.
John Say is wrong as he usually is.
Good grief.
He claims that the article “ignores the fact that much of what is published does not even achieve statistical significance.”
This is factually backward. The RealClearInvestigations article explicitly states the exact opposite: the core of the scientific publishing crisis is a systemic bias toward publishing only statistically significant results. Academic journals routinely reject null or negative findings, leading to an inflation of flashy, false-positive claims while burying research that fails to find a significant effect.
Then he states that economist “David Romer published a paper Mathematically proving… you can rig the results to hind cast near perfectly.”
Way wrong, “David Romer” did not do that. He’s confusing David Romer with Nobel laureate Paul Romer.
Around a decade ago (2015), Paul Romer published a well-known paper critiquing “Mathiness” in growth economics. He did not provide a mathematical proof that any complex system can be rigged effortlessly. Instead, he delivered a critique on academic integrity, arguing that some economists use dense mathematical prose to obscure ideological agendas rather than clarify data.
Then…he asserts that if online commenters respond with insults or fail to reply, it serves as a “strong indication they are unable to find any flaws” and “increases my confidence” in the argument’s correctness. That would apply a LOT of folks on this blog.
This is a logical fallacy known as an appeal to ignorance. The poor behavior, absence, or logical failure of a commentator does not mathematically or scientifically validate the objective truth of a complex premise. An unrefuted argument is not automatically a correct one. Ironically Johh Say does this often with long running diatribes and ranting that have nothing to do with the subject.
Then… he spends the majority of his comment discussing the structural replication failures of social science and statistical math. It then concludes with a definitive, absolute statement on a complex biological and sociological topic: “In this instance – Moutot is correct. A MTF trans person is NOT a woman.”
This is a textbook non sequitur (it does not follow). A breakdown of peer-review incentives in psychology or flawed climate models does not logistically or scientifically dictate a definitive conclusion on gender identity or French legal free-speech disputes. This is where John’s ranting style tends to upend whatever argument he tried to make. It’s pretty funny how silly it looks when you know exactly what you’re looking at. Wow.
John Say is the best a Moscow based psyops group can manage. It’s still early in the month and the case of vodka that is delivered on the 1st has not been fully consumed. The spelling and grammatical errors in John Say(tm) posts are the tip of the iceberg of ignorance.
Ester Duflo and her husband , Nobel prize, the right questions must be asked.
It’s really a smart approach in science.
Thought crimes and free speech crimes. The leftist satanic devils can never let the truth come out. Men are not women and never can be women. No drugs of surgeries will ever change that fact. The left’s supporter are just stupid.
It’s interesting how some of the trolls constantly whine about MAGA taking their rights. Yet this result is something proposed by many Democrats here in the US. The more radical leftist they are, the more likely they are to push for speech sanctions and thought control. That’s why CA has the eponymously named ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ which is to crack down on citizen journalists and prevent them from exposing their incompetency and malfeasance.
American Revolution II
Presumably the principals are in the Green Dragon Tavern as we speak.
“From your lips to God’s ears!”
As a MAGA diversion away from Trump’s ongoing obvious mental decline (did you see the Time interview?) and his historically-low polling numbers, Turley posts an article about a transgender dispute in France. Uh, Turley–why don’t you write about Trump not only blowing off a COURT ORDER to restore CNN’s credentials, but his new threat to JAIL news media he doesn’t like? That is a far more important and relevant issue than whether some person in France refuses to honor a transgender person. I think I know why Turley is ignoring it–because it is clearly unconstitutional and part of the general effort by MAGA and Trump to squelch the free press in America because it reports the truth about Trump.
Dear dense, low-IQ, vitriolic gigi/natasha,
did it escape you that TUrley writes about LEGAL ISSUES, not media poll numbers.
I’m sure there is a good home for your comments on the last page of the trash rags, like The Sun, Huffpost, Vanity Fair, Bluesky, etc. why do you come here???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Not same anonymous, but he actually routinely writes about media poll numbers. He has done so in the last week in fact.
Turley has mentioned polls within the context of legal issues. Recent example, “The vast majority, of course, would be happy if Trump were impeached and removed from office (87%) or ousted by his cabinet via the 25th Amendment (84%).” Impeachment and removal from office is a LEGAL issue
https://jonathanturley.org/2026/09/25/the-socialist-chic-almost-half-of-americans-now-hold-positive-views-of-socialism/
What is the legal issue that he discusses?
Easy question. Easy answer.
Do you understand the interrelationship and interdependency between political parties and legislation/policy, as in LAW?
From the above citation that you yourself just offered:
“Notably, the Jacobins pushed for the same unicameral system that the socialists are now advocating as well as attacks on the wealthy.
“The DSA is the direct descendant of the Jacobins in seeking to tear down moderating institutions and replace the president and justices with democratically elected figures by a Congress composed only of the House of Representatives.”
Try again.
Ignoring court orders ARE legal issues. You didn’t know that?
Turley has given up all pretense of actually caring about the current state of the law or our Constitutional order. He won’t start to offer up Presidential critiques again until a Democrat takes over the White House – and then he will be ALL too eager. He knows who reads his blog and who buys his books and who books him on Fox News.
lol. Turley is defending free speech. The LEFT wants to jail people for ‘hurtful words’ and ‘insults.’ The left wishes to expand the reach of government and take away our liberties. The left wants to confiscate wealth, heavily regulate business and enact socialism. All of which pave the road to poverty and gulags.
You can tell he’s going to ignore the massive GOP failure to spring a perjury trap on Smith. Ironically this is why Dr. Fauci invoked the 5th. Turley won’t go out of his way to criticize the Republican Party or the GOP for its painfully obvious blunders.
He won’t even bring up the Missouri gerrymander disaster that took THREE Supreme Court rulings in quick succession to tell Missouri Republicans they could not do wha they wanted to do.
” Turley won’t go out of his way to criticize the Republican Party or the GOP for its painfully obvious blunders.”
GSX, you are a liar. Turley criticizes Republicans and Trump every time they attempt to abridge our First Amendment rights. Such abridgement of those rights was a continuous feature of the Biden administration.
Yes, the typical critique:
“I don’t like that Trump abridges the 1st Amendment rights, but he has the authority to do so and nothing can be done to stop him.”
Strong stuff.
The only difference between Trump’s abridgement of 1st Amendment rights and the Democrats’ is that he does it legally.
OMG! Now, 2 years after Joke Biden, it’s “mental decline.” What was it then, you foreign freak? Aren’t you supposed to be making dinner or having babies (imagine those, will ya?).
France….
Right-wing National Rally leader Marine Le Pen on Thursday called footage of a young French police officer being chased, knocked down and kicked during high school protests “unbearable,” and said the attackers deserved exemplary punishment.
Trump is now stealing money from border security and what would be used for memorials for killed officers to run ads promoting himself. Would love the Professor’s legal analysis of this:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/10/01/trump-ads-use-money-border-security-slain-officers-memorials/
What Trump is doing is clearly illegal–I saw a side-by-side comparison of a Trump campaign ad from 2024 and one of these current ads, and they are identical. It’s all part of the Trump-MAGA playbook–do something illegal, and let someone sue you to get a court order stopping you. When the court rules against you (and they will), blow off the court order and keep doing it while filing an appeal. By the time there is resolution, you will have gotten your way because the wheels of justice turn slowly. That’s what happened with the ballroom, but it was too late to save the East Wing because there was no prior notice. He’ll try the same thing with the Kennedy Center, and Republican Mike Lee from Utah is helping him–he voted against a measure to prevent Trump from tearing down the Kennedy Center, which may be doomed because Trump is obsessed with putting his name on the place and/or the campus. Trump is obsessed with trying to capture the charisma and popularity of JFK. As one commentator I saw today said, most people when they want something and don’t get it, just get over it and move on–but not Trump. He ruminates and obsessess over it–proven by the 2020 election loss. He has ordered Kash Patel to try to re-write history, including Nixon’s involvement in Watergate and his loss in 2020. He won’t stop trying to steal the glory of JFK, immortalized by an Act of Congress, in the form of the Center For Performing Arts. If he doesn’t get his way, he’ll get the flunkies he put on the Board (like Laura Ingraham and Maria Bartiromo) to vote to demolish it, and before the ink is dry on their vote, demolition equipment, which will already be in place, will get started before a court can issue an injunction–once enough of it has been destroyed, the rest will have to come down. He did the same thing with the Bon Wit Teller building in NYC–a condition of obtaining a demolition permit was that he was required to save the historically-significant bas relief sculptures and ornate grating above the doors and donate them to the MOMA. He had them pulled off of the building, put on the ground and smashed–when word that he was doing this got out, proponents from the MOMA got a restraining order, but the pieces were destroyed before they could serve the order. Nobody tells Trump what to do–so he thinks.
Trump is in panic mode now, and although he denies the accuracy of his low polling, calling it “fake news”–he still thinks he is popular and successful, so he re-runs his campaign commercials, right before the midterms, and is traveling around the country, holding rallies–because he just HAS to have cheering and a microphone to spew his lies. By the time he is stopped using our tax dollars to promote himself, the election will be over. And, Trump is sitting on $400 million dollars, but he steals our tax money to pay for his ads. He belongs in prison.
Trump will undoubtedly try to pardon himself before he leaves office – and that will be legally challened all the way to the SCOTUS. In response, Turley will write a blog post about some far-right Twitter personality in Luxembourg who has been “cancelled” and how that has infringed on his freedom of speech 😉
Are you really that stupid?
Turley reporting on Free Speech from far-flung corners of the world, like the news reels in the 1940s movie theaters.
“This just in, something happened somewhere and it’s disturbing to anyone who wants to draw attention from the Epstein files.”
Hahahahahahahaha hahaha!
The French has long embraced the Feminine-Form. From Houses of Haute Couture fashion to the architectural natural forms of Hector Guimard (Paris Metro entrances).
French embraces of the Feminine-Form designs has crossed the Atlantic in the American form of Chez Ninon and Louis Sullivan (architect – Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building)
Dora Moutot’s defense of heterosexual strict construction of the French definition fits perfectly with the French couture of fashion design and an acceptable view.
Perhaps if the Transgender advocates filed charges for “public insult” against the Eiffel Tower (a 330 meters (1,083 ft) tall phallic edifice), the case against Dora Moutot would be more apprortiate,
but alas the protruding edifice is a national symbol of France as is French Couture fashion is embedded into the national identity within the fabric of their Society.
So much is lost when we seek to shut-down the ‘Form’ (speech) of sexual identity albeit; heterosexual, transsexual, homosexual, as it pre-exists in our lives today.
[Link] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haute_couture
[Link] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grand_couturiers
[Link] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chez_Ninon
[Link] smarthistory.org/sullivan-carson-pirie-scott-building/)
[Link] smarthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/8656832849_1d00635409_o-scaled.jpg
[Link] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fashion_design
[Link] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower
[Link] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallic_architecture
Dora Moutot is on point with todays ‘Impending Change’ as we veer toward World War III.
“The more things change, the more they stay the same” (q:plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose) is an aphorism by French critic Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr in his satirical journal Les Guêpes.
Art Nouveau is only one of many names given to this international fin-de-siècle style, which had many regional variations. The term: French for “New Art”.
https://smarthistory.org/art-nouveau/
fin de siècle
/ˌfan də sēˈeklə/
Fin de siècle is a French phrase meaning “end of the century” that describes the cultural, artistic, and social climate of the late 19th century (roughly 1880 to 1914).
Meaning and Spirit
• Dual Identity: The term captures a mix of deep anxiety, pessimism, and a belief that civilization was in moral decline, balanced with excitement and hope for a new modern era.
• Contrasting Views: It meant being sophisticated, fashionable, and up-to-date, while also hinting at being worn-out or decadent.
Key Movements and Styles
• Decadence and Aestheticism: Artists embraced “art for art’s sake,” valuing artificiality, beauty, and sensory excess over traditional moral lessons.
• Symbolism: Creators looked to dreams, psychology, and inner emotions rather than realistic portrayals of the physical world.
• Art Nouveau: A popular design movement featuring long, flowing, organic lines in architecture, posters, and jewelry.
Major Themes
• Degeneration: Society worried that human progress was reversing, leading to crime, mental illness, and moral decay.
• Shifting Roles: Rapid urbanization and the rise of the “New Woman” caused anxiety among traditionalists regarding changing gender norms.
• Impending Change: Many felt an apocalyptic tension that ultimately ended with the start of World War I in 1914.
😂. It’s a circumstance of not being able to stand up and walk out.
This isn’t the bottom of complete degradation. There’s more to come. Is this a group saying everyone will respect me as I have none for you?
Bizarre
Respect is not a right or entitlement.
It’s misogyny.
apparently, literally all You have left is to somehow find time in our busy schedule to gravitate toward this blog every day to OT insult Turley and Trump.
Go sit under a tree and blow up some bubble gum to relieve your tensions. thanks in advance.
You’re right honestly. I come to this blog because I keep thinking that maybe – just MAYBE – the Professor will finally start to write about legal issues occuring right HERE right NOW at the hands of the party that controls the White House, congress, the DOJ and the Supreme Court – that affect American workers, farmers, students, elderly, soldiers, doctors, mothers, kids – you know – everday US citizens. But nope – he’d rather talk about French feminists. So you’re right – I don’t know why I expected more of him. He’s just shilling books…
When Turley started this blog he did engage in legitimate discussions of legal controversies. He regularly responded to comments with meaningful legal analysis.
However he quickly learned that there is no money to be made in such discussions. He found that he could make a lot of money shilling for Fox and NY Post, both owned by Rupert Murdoch. He was paid handsomely to push out MAGA propaganda for Murdoch’s alleged “news” organizations. Now he simply reproduces this propaganda here to stoke the rage of his faithful MAGA devotees.
You are right, he simply uses this blog to shill for MAGA and Rupert Murdoch and to shill for his books.
And the regulars here lap up this propaganda and buy his stupid books,
As soon as you stop with this crap, the sooner they take your straight jacket off !!
I doubt Fox or Murdock give a flying fig about this blog.
Turley uysed to appear on CNN and the rest of the left leaning media.
He was democrats star witness at the Clinton impeachment hearings – both in congress and on the news – all over the left wing MSM.
Turley has not changed his views on most any issue consequentially.
Democrats left him – and the entire liberal ideology that he was a part of
Turley is NOT MAGA, he is not conservative, he is not even libertarian.
He is an old school liberal.
It is democrats and the left that have changed – you have gone absurdly nuts.
I am sure Turley would be perfectly happy to appear on CNN or CBS – and as they have failed and are being bought and efforts being made to shift them from far left to something closer to actual centrist so that they can attract more viewers and become profitable again – Turley may well be invited onto CBS and CNN more frequently – he has STILL made occasional appearances.
You rant about Turley purportedly being “for sale” – are the reporters on MSNOW, CNN, CBS ‘for sale” because they are paid – usually by left wing billionaires ? Are the rporters at NYT and Wapo “for sale”
Every human needs to make a living somehow – we all get paid. Most of us seek to get paid for things we like to do. People who do not beleive what they are paid to say are rarely able to make good arguments.
More recently it has been unearthed that thousands of social media posters are being paid by left wing biullionaires tied to the CCP to flog anti-trump nonsense on social media.
To all the “right wing billionaires” out there – I will perfectly happily take your money to post even more of what I am posting.
I would be ecstatic to get paid well to do something I do for fun.
So far no right wing billionaire has taken me up on that offer.
As to the Murdocks – I doubt that are involved in Turley’s appearances on Fox. Regardless those who are, pay him because he provides accurate constitutional and legal analysis – not always the analysis that favors viewers – but analysis that viewers can trust.
Turley is not paid for leaning right – which he does not – he is still an old school liberal. He is paid for the quality and accuracy of his comments, He is paid because he is nearly always right.
Everyone on earth is paid and answerable in some way to those who pay them – whether it is the fast food joint that is paid to make burgers and does not get paid if people do not like the burgers, or journalists who get paid for providing reporting that attracts an audience – because the media itself is primarily paid for by advertising.
Contra the left advertisers do not care about your politics, but they do care how many eyeballs you bring them for their products.
For a reporter or journalist – in the short run you can get attention by being shocking. In the long run right or left you lose viewers if you are not trusted.
I bet Putin isn’t paying John Say as much as he used to.
One of Turley’s core issues is free speech. He has criticized Trump’s ban of fake media.
With respect to legal issues occurring right here and now – Trump is winning the overwhelming majority of those – because his position is constitutionally correct.
In most cases Congress passed laws that have been deemed constitutional long ago. These laws were passed by BOTH parties.
You say that Republicans control everything – that is mostly because the left has veered far off the road.
While the commenters here address all aspects of politics – 80% at-least of Turleys articles tie to Free speech in one form or another.
While Trump occasionally – and particularly verbally threatens free speech he very rarely actually acts to threaten free speech.
Even the recent fake news ban – which actually is an interesting first amendment issue – does not restrain those banned from speaking.
It just denies them access to the White House. The WH is arguably NOT a public forum for free speech – it is a bully pulpit for the president. No court as an example has ever ruled that the president MUST have press conferences or take questions from reporters.
But courts have routinely ordered that Government MUST provide access to the capital, the capital grounds, and the mall – because those are Public forums.
Regardless, aside from Trump frequently insulting members of the press who insult him, Trump’s actual efforts to infringe on free speech are inconsequential compared to the norm of democrats. Biden had govenrment pay NGOs to scour Social media and demand censorship.
He had a secret Back channel from the WH and DOJ and FBI to social media demanding the censorship of content based on viewpoint.
The unconstitutional violations of the first amendment by democrats are just an ordinary day for democrats.
You rant about Trump – There has been massive left wing driven law-fare against Trump – both as president and personally.
The constitutionality and legality of every single step that he takes is debated in the courts to the microscopic details.
And in nearly all instances Trump ultimately prevails.
No presidents actions ever have been so thoroughly vetted by the courts.
You might not like the outcome – but it is unarguably rooted in the law and constitution.
In many instances the outcome is thoroughly predictable.
Nobody disgraces Donald Trump as much as Donald Trump. Aside from his own buffonery – the man is a liar. He ran on two promises: No more forever wars and gets costs down. He lied about both.
“No more forever wars and gets costs down. He lied about both.”
Trump is living up to his promise.
He cannot do anything about the rise in prices of 21+% under the Biden administration. You will have to continue paying $121 for $100 in goods because of Biden inflation, but costs are coming down, and incomes are rising.
What forever war are you talking about?
HAHAHA – cool story bro. Diesel is $6.40/gallon thanks to TRUMP…..AND it’s harvest season. Truth hurts.
Diesel is high because of the Biden caused Ukraine war, Democrats demand to close American refineries, two or three closed down this year, and Biden’s attack on energy with the Democrat Green Scam grift.
Yes, we have a problem with Iran right now, but if you do a cost analysis it is worth it to have Iran ultimately destroyed. We didn’t complain about gas prices in February 1942 did we?
In June, 2024, Trump said Iran’s nuclear capabilities were “totally obliterated”. Was he lying? Nevertheless, following Netanuahy’s BS claim that Iran was poised to nuke us, which Obama, Biden and Bush rejected as BS, Trump fell for it, and started bombing, which is what Israel wanted all along–a cover to try to grab land in Lebanon, just like it stole the Golan Heights and the West Bank from the Palestinian people. Trump claimed that Iran was on the verge of nuking us–where is the proof? There isn’t any. He just made up another new lie–that Iran is dealing drugs. A third lie as a cover for the war he started–that he wanted to help the Iranian people to rise up and take over the government. Trump is a pathological liar.
Sooner or later, the world will run out of petroleum because it is not a renewable resource. Biden encouraged green energy–which is where our future lies. If the world were not so dependent upon petroleum, then closure of the Strait of Hormuz wouldn’t matter as much. What Trump has done by starting this war is teach the Iranians that they now have the power to inflict economic pain on the rest of the world by controlling the Strait of Hormuz—something they didn’t know or fully appreciate before Trump started this war of choice based on a lie–a war that he has no idea how to extricate the US from.
“We” didn’t complain because the price of gasoline was controlled and people had to use ration books to buy it in 1942.
Biden should have saturation nuked Ukraine to ensure there would be no war there. Then popped a couple more in NATO countries to show them the US was boss.
The US should have nuked Germany and killed every German in 1942.
The only way to destroy Iran is to murder every Iranian on the planet.
See how easily problems can be solved by just killing and killing and killing? It’s the American Christian way.
gas was above $4 a gallon for most of 2022 during Biden’s failed presidency. Crickets from media.
Another MAGA lie. The fluctuating price of gas was due to the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which disrupted global supply–not Biden–and his presidency was not a failure–but Trump’s is. Here’s what “co-pilot” says, citing various sources:
“Gasoline averaged roughly $3.5–$3.6 per gallon during Joe Biden’s 2021–2025 term, starting near $2.38–$2.39 in January 2021 and peaking above $5.00 in June 2022.
Multiple independent analyses using U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) and AAA data show consistent ranges for gas prices during Biden’s presidency:
Start of term (Jan 2021): about $2.38–$2.39 per gallon. usgasgauge.com
Peak (June 2022): national average $5.01 per gallon, with some trackers noting slightly higher daily peaks. usgasgauge.com
End of term (Jan 2025): around $3.11 per gallon nominal. usgasgauge.com
Overall term average: generally $3.52–$3.60 per gallon, depending on dataset and inflation adjustment. factually.co
Why Prices Changed
Search results consistently attribute the major fluctuations to global factors rather than presidential policy alone:
Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, which disrupted global oil markets. usgasgauge.com
Post‑pandemic demand recovery and supply chain constraints. whatsthepriceofgas.com
OPEC+ production decisions affecting global crude supply. whatsthepriceofgas.com
Refinery capacity limits and seasonal demand patterns. usgasgauge.com
Summary
Across Joe Biden’s presidency, U.S. gas prices ranged from about $2.39 to over $5.00, with a term average in the mid‑$3 range, shaped largely by global oil market shocks and economic recovery dynamics.”
Gas and diesel are high now because Trump started a war with Iran based on a lie and has no idea how to end it. Did you forget that Trump promised to end the Russo-Ukrainian war “on day one”?
Want to know why Trump hasn’t been able to get any resolution of the war in Gaza, despite blowing and bragging that only he could get it settled? From “Middle East Monitor”:
“US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Jared Kushner faces conflict-of-interest questions after a CNN investigation found that his investment firm has a major stake in an Israeli financial group that invests in defence companies supplying weapons to the Israeli military, while he plays a key role in talks to end the Gaza war.
According to the investigation, Kushner’s investment firm, Affinity Partners, owns a 7.4 per cent stake in Israeli financial group Phoenix Financial, which was worth more than $1 billion in July.
Phoenix invests hundreds of millions of dollars in Elbit Systems, one of Israel’s largest defence companies, as well as stakes in other companies that supply the Israeli military with military equipment and services, according to Israeli financial records reviewed by CNN.
The investments have gained particular significance because of Kushner’s role in efforts to end the Gaza war. He has taken part in talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials and met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leaders as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to revive a ceasefire plan and end the war.
The investigation said Kushner’s firm doubled its stake in Phoenix over the past year. In July, it sold about a quarter of its holding, making a return of more than five times its original investment, while remaining the Israeli group’s largest shareholder.”
Now do you wonder WHY Trump is going after CNN and ignoring court orders to restore their press credentials?
You are such a dummy. The Revolutionary War lasted 8 years, the Civil War 4, and WW2 6. How many months has this war with Iran lasted? Months, and it is already technically over, with the Straits presently open. Gas prices at the pump are falling in my area, but wait and see until after the midterms. Iran will no longer be able to do its dirty dance with the Democrats.
Trump said it’s not a war—did he lie? Another MAGA lie is that the Strait of Hormuz is open—it’s not. A few tankers are getting through but only with the grace of the Iranians—traffic is nowhere near what it had been. The US does not control the Strait of Hormuz— another lie Trump likes to tell.
Even if the Iranians fully reopened the Strait of Hormuz today, restoring petroleum reserves and worldwide supplies, which is what it will take for prices to start coming down, will take several months, if not longer. Trump just keeps on lying about how much stupidity has cost us.
“Trump said it’s not a war—did he lie?”
It appears to be a war that is essentially over, but you can choose from the many definitions out there for the word war”. I use a broad one.
The straits are open for the most part, but many ships have their transponders turned off so they are not counted. The oil going through and using other channels is around the same amount as before the war.
The Iranians have no control over the straits except the type of control terrorists use.
Gas prices at the pump, at least where I live, are already falling. If you want to complain about prices, blame Biden. Add about 21% to your living expenses.
Didn’t L B Johnson sell the Vietnam WAR was a policing action?
Is it war without boots on the ground or is it a strategic bombing campaign? Barrel price of Light Brent crude is still lower now than under Biden.
Trump is a pathological liar–and you know it. He promised “on day one” to substantially lower the cost of groceries, gasoline, air fare–everything! He told those lies just to get elected, and, as polls prove, enough gullible people believed these lies, but he still never even got half of the votes cast. His plurality over Kamala Harris was only 1.48%–NOT a “landslide”–another lie he likes to tell. Here’s what the Wall Street Journal says about Biden allegedly causing inflation:
“The Wall Street Journal lays out the standard conservative case against Biden, citing his $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill from early 2021 as the original sin that condemned Democrats to failure. But the Journal’s own numbers tell a different story, attributing only 0.6 percent of the total inflationary surge across 2021 and 2022 to Biden’s spending package. Inflation peaked in the summer of 2022 at 9.1 percent, meaning Biden barely added anything to the overall path of prices—a finding consistent with the prevailing consensus among economists. “The bottom line is that inflation’s rise and fall reflected primarily global drivers,” the International Monetary Fund concluded in September. Absent Biden’s stimulus, growth would have been weaker, unemployment higher, and wages lower—but prices would have been maddeningly high anyway.”
Inflation surged after Biden got us back to work, back to school and businesses back up and running after the COVID disaster Trump left him to deal with. Trump’s lies, failures of leadership and incompetence made the COVID crisis much worse then it had to be–it went on longer and more people got sick and died because of his lies and quack cures. Closed schools, closed businesses and people who could worked from home caused demand for petroleum to drop, with refineries cutting output. Orders for some consumer goods went way down. When Biden turned things around, demand outstripped supply, and higher demand with lower supply resulted in inflation. By the time Biden left office in January 2024, inflation fell from 9% in 2022 to 3.0%. For the past 12 months since Trump took office, inflation averaged 3.4%, but Trump promised it would be 0%. So, no, inflation is Trump’s fault–not Biden’s.
Do you MAGAs think the American people are stupid or something?
“Do you MAGAs think the American people are stupid or something?
Aw, did you have to copycat that from our remarks about YOU and X?
try to be more original
“Trump is a pathological liar–and you know it. He promised “on day one” to substantially lower the cost of groceries, gasoline, a… “. Reading this far is enough for the whack-job Natasha Gigi. “on day one” means the process will start. Average gasoline prices under Biden were higher than under Trump, and we have to knock off about 21%+ of the price because that was Biden’s accumulated inflation. Eggs fell immediately, and accounting for Biden inflation, the rate of costs going up is reduced.
“Do you MAGAs think the American people are stupid or something?”
MAGAs don’t think. They believe in the cult leader.
SM – most REAL prices are going DOWN. That is actually the norm in a free market – Without the Fed NOMINAL prices and REAL prices would be the same and both go down.
2Q GDP was revised to 3.8% (annualized) The atlanta Fed is projecting 3Q GDP of 5.1%
That means that americans have produced MORE than ever before. And it means we can CONSUME what we have produced.
Measured in the human effort that we expended to purchase what we want and need – the REAL PRICE of most everything has gone down.
During the Biden admin the REAL income of americans declined by $3500/yr. During Trump 45 it rose by $4500/yr.
So far under Trump 47 it is up $5500/yr – basically the losses under Biden have been recovered and an additional $2000.
Rents in most major cities are DOWN 5% – I wonder why ? Might it have something to do with the laws of supply and demand and the departure of approx 5M illegal aliens ?
Real costs are ACTUALLY down – Nominal costs are mostly unlikely to come down – but wages have increased more than costs.
And this response is related to the article how????
The conflict with Argentia was over quickly – No Forever Wars.
The conflict with Iran has barely lasted 6 months – and most of that time we were supposedly negotiating not fighting.
This conflict may last to midterms. It may last a few months longer. It is highly unlikely to be around for the next president.
Even in the unlikely even this continues – the Iranians will lose the little leverage they have fast.
Outside of Russia and the Gulf energy production is increasing – it is called the law of supply and demand. Prices rise supply increases, prices drop. Every energy producer in the world is looking for ways to boost production. Some happens quickly, Some takes time.
Some solutions like Pipelines from the gulf to the mediterainian take years. But even the threat from Iran to choke supply AUTOMATICALLY results in Billions being invested to preclude that. Even if this conflict lasts to the end of Trump’s term – which is highly unlikely – within a few years Irans ability to choke the straights of Hormuz will be irrelevant.
Further because production is rising – one the bottleneck at Hormuz is resolved one way or another there will be a glut of energy and prices will tank. Again law of supply and demand. And that law is immutable.
The Gaza conflict which started under Biden ended under Trump.
The Ukraine conflict which was started BY BIDEN – with near certainty will end under Trump.
There has been conflict in Lebanan for all of my life time – Lebanon is anarchy and a failed state.
It is likely that conflict is ending – and Lebanon will be on the road back to peace and prosperity.
So long as the federal reserve exists prices will NEVER go down – atleast not nominal prices.
Real prices ALWAYS go down over the long term. Again law of supply and demand.
Money is just the means of exchanging the wealth we have created for the wealth that we want.
I get paid rent for apartments, fees for property assessments, and fees for embedded software.
I want food, clothing, shelter, entertainment, romantic evenings with my spouse.
I exchange what I have produced for what I want. Money is just the medium through which that exhange takes place.
The federal reserve controls the money supply – if it tightens supply – dollars are harder to come by, to earn and they each can buy more.
If it boosts supply dollars are easy to obtain and buy less.
But that has only minor effect on my ability to exchange the wealth I create for the wealth I want.
GDP in 2Q 2026 increased by 3.8%, in 3Q 2026 it is projected to increase by 5.1%.
That means the effort that americans engage in can be exchanged for MORE of what they want and need.
Measured by hours one needs to work to purchase somnething – Prices are ALREADY way down.
Under Biden REAL INCOME dropped by 3500/person over 4 years. Under Trump in less than 2 years it has increased by $5500/person.
Again the real price – the effort we must perform in order to buy something has decreased.
And it will continue to decrease so long as GDP remains high.
This is BTW confirmed by the fact that wages – particularly those for the working class have risen significantly over the past 18+ months.
Separately the departure of over 5M illegal aliens has resulted in rents in major metro areas declining by 5%, while wages again – working class wages are rising. Crime is dropping – the lowest ever recorded. The cost to federal state and local govenrment of the benefits illegal aliens were reciving has dropped precipitously.
Sounds alot like Promises kept to me.
Conversely PPACA has been failing since its inception.
$2T/decade + IN Federal subsidies have driven the price of healthcare up – exactly as the law of supply and demand predict.
Thank GOD for lin that they charge into the fray and fall flat into the muck they so dearly cherish.
Hegseth is purging the military of senior leadership.
Trump has embroiled us in a forever war that is causing prices to soar.
Eric Schmitt is defaming public servants over his misinformation and stupidity.
The US’s allies have largely abandoned her because of Trump’s actions.
Trump’s comms team posts memes of them popping the cork on champagne in Mar-A-Lago while inflation wrecks US lives.
Turley is writing about…checks the blog…..French feminists?
This is literally all the GOP has left. Trying to gin up outrage over gender issues. What a pathetic hollow shell they have become. Which is why the blue wave is on the way.
apparently, literally all You have left is to somehow find time in our busy schedule to gravitate toward this blog every day to OT insult Turley and Trump.
Go sit under a tree and blow up some bubble gum to relieve your tensions. thanks in advance.
BS! I’d like to see your reply again on about November 3.
But was he wrong about anything he wrote?
X, that was not the argument. You always try to change it. Try again.
“Hegseth is purging the military of senior leadership.”
Correct – that happens in nearly every conflict.
FDR purges most of the military leadership at the start of WWII,
During a conflict the military replaces the politically connected with those who are effective militarily.
“Trump has embroiled us in a forever war that is causing prices to soar.”
Why do you think this is a forever war ? For MOST of the past 6+ months we have been negotiating – not fighting.
Idiots in Iran fire a few missles at a US warship or tanker and we clobber a few launch sites. Tit for tat.
Approximately 18 US service personal have died in this conflict. The US military has 1 death every single days as its normal baseline – from accidents, natural causes etc. That is 10 times the death rate in the mideast.
While Trump is looking for a public deal with this regime – the FACT is this conflict is over – Trump won.
We have inflicted $550B in damage in the Iranian govenrment and IRGC. That will take them more than a decade to recover from without outside help. Their nuclear programs has been obliterated, There weapons production degraded by 90%.
Trump can Walk away right now having succeeded.
And should Iran continue to misbehave – we can come back at anytime.
Currently we are choking an already failing economy – either Iran will capitulate or the current regime will collapse.
When ? That is up to them. Suicidal regimes often take a long time to fail. Isolated japanese soldiers continued fighting for decades after WWII.
But lets presume Iran neither collapses or capitulates – there are still weaker and weaker by the day.
The US can keep 2 Carrier Battle groups in the region forever – they have to be somewhere. In one form or another atleast one has been in the mideast throughout my entire lifetime.
Hegseth is purging those with wartime experience. It’s what one does prior to capitulating to Putin.
Jack Smith is a criminal not a public servant.
“The US’s allies have largely abandoned her because of Trump’s actions.”
So greenland and Denamark pretty much gave the US near total sovereignity over greenland because they hate us ?
Largely is not the same as entirely. That Russian:English dictionary is failing John Say.
“Trump’s comms team posts memes of them popping the cork on champagne in Mar-A-Lago while inflation wrecks US lives.”
Outside the left people like Trump memes – they are fun and entertaining.
Those of you on the left have entirely lost your sense of Humor.
The left also memes Trump and Vance and … Vance in particular has embraced the memes targeting him.
It is called having a sense of humor.
Inflation is at 3.4% – that is too high – it is still just barely more than HALF the Biden average inflation.
Regardless wages are up more than inflation and working class americans have recovered ALL the purchasing power they lost under biden and gained another $2000.
Turley is not the GOP or MAGA. Few are “outraged” over this – but we are sad.
I certainly will not visit France. I am not looking to go to jail for a year because someone was offended by something I said.
I watch the generic ballot everyday. Historically it overstates democrats by 3-4pts.
Today RCP has it at D+6 – if that is where it is at in Nov. This will be a fizzle, not a wave.
Even the current projections – which are highly optomistic – are not projecting a Blue wave, but a blue Fizzle.
I would further note that in 2024 Harris was up by 4pts according to Polls on Oct 2 – polls even had her up the day before the election – she lost by 2%.
But lets presume that Democrats take both the house and the senate.
Aside from constant impeachments and investigations – which COST DEMOCRATS the White House – What is it that you expect Democrats to accomplish ?
Lets presume they abolish the filibuster – so they can pass laws in the house and senate. They will will not be even close to overriding a Trump veto. The BBB locked in financing for much of what Democrats want to attack.
There is absolutely nothing Democrats can do regarding ICE – and if they could – that would be a political disaster for them.
The best thing for Republicans in 2028 will be for democrats to win in 2026.
What exactly is it that you think Democrats will accomplish in the next 2 years if they take both the house and senate.
You can impeach half the current administration – you will not even come close to removing any of them.
You can vote to expand the supreme court – that will get veto’d.
But even if it did not – Trump will be the president appointing new justices.
You can rant and rave about the conflict in the mideast – but do you actually beleive than even a majority of democrats will vote to do something about it ? Iran is a bad actor. No senator or representative is going to want his name on a vote that might eventually lead to an Iranian nuke or another 9/11.
If Democrats take power they will rant and rave and investigate Trump’s naval lint
They will look like fools.
Democrats have no agenda – to the tiny extent they do – it is a DSA agenda that is incredibly unpopular.
One of the major problems that Trump and republicans have in this election is that
IT DOES NOT MATTER.
Everyone – left and right is ranting this is the most consequential election in US HISTORY as they do with nearly every other election.
But it is not. It would be good for the country if Democrats fizzled – which seems likely.
It would be very good for the country if republicans could enhance executive accomplishments with legislative ones.
But Trump is president for the next two years and there is nothing you can do about that.
You have offered no actual agenda – beyond We hate Trump.
Nearly everything you might try to accomplish is incredibly unpopular.
Why are the “no Kings” marches gone – because they were astro turf.
Why are the ICE protests gone or at least being ignored by even the left wing media – because they are astro turf and because 56% of Americans according to Harvard Harris want EVERY SINGLE illegal immigrant in the US deported – that is UP 3pts since 2025.
Incredible super majorities want criminals, those without families, those without jobs, etc deported – in some cases over 80%.
What is it you think you are going to do if you manage to take power ?
Let me fix that for you, Hegseth is purging the military of Obama’s Senior leadership.