FLASHBACK: “Now the elites are afraid.” “The elites present themselves as anti-fascist and anti-racist but this is merely a way of defending their class interests. It is the only argument they can muster to defend their status, but it is not working anymore.”
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September 29, 2022
THEY DON’T LIKE DEPLORABLES:
AND AGAIN: YouTube Demonetizes TK News Content. “A brief note to subscribers about YouTube’s decision to demonetize TK material, saying Matt Orfalea’s factual video “isn’t suitable for all advertisers,” Matt Taibbi writes:
Today we’re releasing a video Matt Orfalea has been working on, showing years of audio and video clips, tweets, and headlines in which Democratic Party politicians and media figures describe Donald Trump’s presidency as illegitimate. Before it was even published on this site, Matt received the above notice.
I’d like to thank YouTube for making our point. The material in this video does not promote the idea that any election was stolen or illegitimate. On the contrary, it shows a great mass of comments from Democratic partisans and pundits who themselves make that claim, about the 2016 election. Those comments were not censored or suppressed when made the first time around, by the likes of Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Karine Jean-Pierre, Adam Schiff, Rob Reiner, Tom Arnold, and Chris Hayes, among many others.
Here’s the video in question:
SPRING FASCISM PREVIEW: YouTube Says Giorgia Meloni Video Was Removed in Error, Restores It After Inquiry.
YouTube removed a video of incoming Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni elaborating on her conservative vision for the country during a 2019 speech. This was a curious decision that attracted widespread scorn from conservative media outlets, given the recent interest in the philosophy of Meloni, who is expected to become the first woman to lead the country.
After Reason asked YouTube to explain why it took down the video, the social media site reversed course and restored it.
“Upon careful review, we determined this video is not violative of our Community Guidelines and have reinstated it,” says Ivy Choi, a spokesperson for YouTube. “We enforce our policies regardless of the speaker’s political views and when it’s brought to our attention that a video has been mistakenly removed, we review the content and take appropriate action, including restoring the relevant videos or channels—as we have done with this video.”
It’s not clear why the video was flagged in the first place. It’s a recording of a speech made by Meloni at the 2019 World Congress of Families. In her remarks, she pushes back on the idea that her views are fringe or aligned with fascism.
Funny how this keeps happening. Today it’s Twitter’s turn to send Meloni’s videos down the memory hole:
Hey, you know who else were once big on censoring their opponents…?
(Classical — and possibly NSFW — reference in headline.)
GREAT MOMENTS IN MORAL NARCISSISM: Chelsea Clinton says her family is ‘the reason that Fox News was created.’
The former first daughter also said she, along with her mother, made the choice to start the documentary series in an effort to push back at Fox News and other right-wing media outlets.
“Climate change illuminated where Fox News was willing to go and its destructive impact,” Chelsea noted, saying it was frustrating. “The Right proved to themselves, ‘We can hit people with relentless misinformation and every night pipe into their homes to disbelieve scientists — what else could be possible?’ Today, with COVID, it’s the same playbook.”
“They get away with it,” she added. “The so-called mainstream media, even the so-called progressive media, is just not as relentless in rebutting, refuting, and making clear that this is nothing but a play for profits at the cost of truth.”
The former secretary of state and presidential candidate chimed in, crediting President Joe Biden with helping to establish better fact-checking.
“Tech companies, the rest of journalism, ordinary people with platforms, we haven’t done enough to point out the dangers, point out the falsehoods, point out the hypocrisy,” Clinton said.
Flashback: Chelsea Clinton Uses Private Jet to Travel to ‘Clean Energy’ Roundtable.
VISUALIZING SPACE COLONIZATION: The future of space tech.
WEIMAR? BECAUSE WE REICH YOU! German inflation hits double digits for the first time since WWII.
I hope this inflationary bout ends better than what happened after it hit double digits before World War II.
NEW YORK CITY MORPHED INTO DETROIT SO QUICKLY, I HARDLY EVEN NOTICED: Anti-CRT Parent Advocate Leaving New York City For The ‘Free State of Florida.’ “Say want you want about the tragedy of George Floyd, but the BLM protests and riots that happened over that summer are a direct result of covid lockdowns. Young people, bored and restless, having been cruelly isolated for months with no school, no playgrounds, no outlets save toxic digital media, were all of a sudden let out of their cages. The virtue of staying home to save Grandma was instantly forgotten. The new virtue was to join the protests and atone for the sins of slavery and Jim Crow. The level of hypocrisy was hard to fathom…By this past summer, the answer I had been avoiding was unavoidable. New York City is not savable. Not for a generation at least. Possibly not forever.”
READER FAVORITE: Apple AirPods Pro Wireless Earbuds. #CommissionEarned
“SOME FRIENDLY LIBERAL ADVICE TO REPUBLICANS:”
Once upon a time, Republicans could think that the CIA and FBI, the Justice Department, and the military were balanced, even favorable to their interests. No longer. Once upon a time, the media and the Democratic Party were deeply suspicious of these institutions; now they are the cheerleaders and apologists for them, and regard their personnel as trusted experts whose patriotism is beyond reproach.
Maybe Al Gore did create the Internet. Before tech was Big Tech, it presented itself as a rival to all the Davos hierarchies; now it is their tool. Business rivals work in concert with one another against those they find deplorable, looking to erase them in a world that otherwise catalogues everything.
All these institutions—and their tectonic, aggregated influence—are in Democrat hands. They and their commanding partners understand their asymmetrical superiority, and they think it’s in their short- and long-term interest to demonstrate it now.
Why? The biggest threat that progressive politics faces are the consequences of progressive legislation. Progressivism comes on the scene as a luxury good. The immorality of “poverty in the midst of plenty” is their platform to re-imagine society. But in the end, they always drive out prosperity and make poverty more pathological. Look at New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco—this is the logic of progressive government made real. It doesn’t poll well or perform well at the ballot box.
Democrats should take a hit this November—so they are flexing their muscles across the commanding-heights marketplace to solicit an advantageous response. Their prospects improve with political violence. Preceding Biden’s speech was the legally sanctioned raid of former President Donald Trump, who is widely expected to pursue one more presidential campaign. After the speech, the FBI legally served and netted all the president’s men, with no blowback at all from the mainstream press. Poke, poke.
Don’t take the bait. If you do, you’ll be playing into the trap set for you.
It’s excellent advice, but perhaps the columnist who calls himself “Liberal Guy” should have aimed his cri de coeur in a more bipartisan direction: Man Admits To Killing Teen He Claimed Was ‘Republican Extremist:’
According to a local North Dakota report, early Sunday morning a man called 911 and admitted to the hit and run of an 18-year-old. His motive? A “political argument” with a Republican.
Forty-one-year-old Shannon Brandt said he was afraid 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson was “part of a Republican extremist group and that he was afraid they were ‘coming to get him.’”
So he allegedly killed Ellingson with his car.
Read the whole thing, which will be memory holed by the DNC-MSM in 3…2…1.
Related: This leftist didn’t understand why he was just arrested for running over, killing an 18-year-old “Republican extremist.” Huh. “A judge ordered Brandt held on $50,000 bail, which he objected to, saying he’s not a flight risk…Brandt posted bail, and is back on the streets. He is now in the process of scrubbing his social media.”
Earlier:
- Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History.
- ‘Not fitting their narrative’: Waukesha feels abandoned after tragic parade attack.
Evergreen:
THEY SOUND A BIT KOOKY, BUT KOOKS HAVE SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS TOO: Black Rights Group’s Armed 2A ‘Unity Walk’ in Austin Demands Reparations, Attacks Illegal Immigration, Open Borders.
DEAL OF THE DAY: Halloween Costumes.
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Berkeley Develops Jewish-Free Zones.
The real issue here is discrimination, not speech. By adopting anti-Jewish bylaw provisions, these groups are restricting their successors from cooperating with pro-Israel speakers and groups. In this way, the exclusionary bylaws operate like racially restrictive covenants, precluding minority participation into perpetuity.
Universities should not have to be legally compelled to do what is obviously right. Anti-Zionist policies would still be monstrously immoral, even if they were not also unlawful. The students should be ashamed of themselves. As should grownups who stand quietly by or mutter meekly about free speech as university spaces go as the Nazis’ infamous call, judenfrei. Jewish-free.
But remember, Giorgia Meloni is the real fascist.
HOW IT STARTED: How Joe Biden Is Positioning Himself as a Modern FDR.
—Headline, Time magazine, October 28, 2020.
How it’s going:
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 57% of American Adults believe it’s likely that, over the next few years, the United States will enter a 1930s-like Depression, including 21% who think a depression is Very Likely. Thirty-two percent (32%) don’t think a depression is likely, and another 12% are not sure.
—“Mister, Can You Spare a Dime?”, John Hinderaker, Power Line, yesterday.
Didn’t Time magazine also declare the previous Democratic president to be the second coming of FDR, even before he took office?
Though to be fair, on economic issues, Biden is definitely outperforming Time’s previous wannabe-Roosevelt: FDR’s policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate.
Speaking of which: Why Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.
FINALLY, SOME PUSHBACK FROM THE RANKS AGAINST THE CORRUPTION AT THE TOP OF THE FBI: 30 ex-FBI agents stand up to support whistleblower who exposed agency’s political bias.
Thirty former FBI agents, including a retired deputy assistant director, head of counterterrorism and five SWAT team members, have spoken out publicly in support of suspended FBI whistleblower Stephen Friend.
Their heartfelt messages, obtained exclusively by The Post, show a deep and widespread anguish about the politicization of the FBI.
“It’s time to stop the FBI from being the enforcer of a political party’s ideology,” says Ernie Tibaldi, a retired agent from San Francisco. “We need to re-establish the FBI as the apolitical and independent law enforcement entity that it always was.”
He expressed gratitude to Friend “for having the courage to stand up to the corruption that has taken over the leadership of the FBI.”
Many former agents hailed Friend, a SWAT team member in Florida, as a “hero” after he was punished for refusing to participate in what he regarded as unnecessarily heavy-handed SWAT raids over Jan. 6 misdemeanors.
In his whistleblower complaint to the Department of Justice inspector general, Friend alleged that the FBI has been manipulating case-file management in order to falsely inflate the threat of domestic terrorism, and using unconstitutional excessive force against political dissenters.
Good. Okay, technically it’s the retired ranks. I’d like to start hearing from serving agents, too. They take an oath, you know.
STING, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Message in a bottle travels more than 100 miles across Lake Michigan.
ALL OUR INSTITUTIONS HAVE BEEN CORRUPTED: Documents Reveal Fauci’s Staggering Pandemic-Period Profits.
It’s too late to stop Fauci, but his office needs to be zeroed out (and his public pension) to prevent the next little dictator.
I’m sure he’ll find a way to get by.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROPHECY:
● Shot: 9 Reasons Not To Worry About The Tanking Economy.
—Headline, the Babylon Bee, Monday.
● Chaser: 7 ways a recession could be good for you financially.
—Headline, the Washington Post, yesterday.
SKYNET SMILES: Robot runs 100 meters in 24.73 seconds, breaks world record.
Do we really want them to be faster than us?
QUESTION ASKED: Can The EU Survive Europe’s Conservative Election Wave?
Now, the Eurocrats in Brussels are running scared. The natives are restless, and they have the votes to put new leaders in. The EU started out as a seemingly harmless organization stressing economic efficiency, trade, and a common currency. Now it’s a socialist octopus, looking to use its tentacles to rule Europe by bureaucratic decree.
Why is this sudden turn to the right happening? Simple. The EU and its member political elites have utterly failed their citizens. Europe is now suffering from absurd “net-zero” green policies that will lead to people literally freezing to death this winter, while their economies and beloved euro currency crash. In Germany, energy prices have shot up by 1,000%, leaving people with awful choices — the same ones the rest of Europe and Russia will have to make.
A sampling of recent dire headlines tell the tale: “Europe’s Economy And Living Standards Are Plummeting,” “European Countries Are On The Brink Of Economic Disaster, OECD Says,” and “Recession clouds gather in Germany, Europe’s largest economy.” The list goes on.
The point is, the EU and left-leaning governments across Europe have failed horribly at delivering stability, prosperity, and peace to their citizens. So, before it’s too late, the citizens are hitting the brakes, voting for the opposition in recent elections.
Faster, please.
DALL-E GOES PUBLIC: Inside the Brave New World of AI That Makes Images So Real They’ll Creep You Out. “After months of restricted beta, DALL-E has been unleashed for the general public, and the results can astound, confuse, or even disgust.”
INTERESTING: Six states sue to block Biden’s Academia bailout.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Weightlifting, aerobic exercise can cut risk of early death from heart disease.