SHE’D DO IT, TOO: Brazil is showing a Harris administration how to de-platform Twitter/X.

In 2021, Oliver Darcy, then of CNN, wrote, “TV providers should not escape scrutiny for distributing disinformation.” Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’s pick for vice president, told MSNBC that “hate speech” and “disinformation” are not legally protected speech. Walz, in an appearance with MSNBC’s Joy Reid, said, “I think we need to push back on this. There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy.”

In 2019, as part of her far-left campaign push, Kamala Harris told CNN’s Jake Tapper that Twitter should take action to ban Donald Trump, which they eventually did. In a speech to the NAACP in 2019, Harris told a crowd that she would direct her DoJ and law enforcement to “counter this extremism. We will hold social media platforms accountable for the hate infiltrating their platforms. Because they have a responsibility to help fight against this threat to our democracy.” She continued, “If you act as a megaphone for disinformation or cyber warfare, if you don’t police your platform, we are going to hold you accountable as a community.”

Such action, of course, would be wildly unconstitutional — and it’s not the only time Harris has threatened social media companies over her own empowered definition of hate speech and disinformation. Nothing suggests Harris has backed off this stance.

You can bet that the Harris campaign is studying how the executive order in Brazil is playing out, because it is a blueprint for a Harris DoJ to pursue action against X and Elon Musk in America.

Related: Stand Up America! This Is What Will Happen if Kamala Harris Wins, Part 1: Free Speech Is Toast.

NOTICING THE OBVIOUS: Axios reports that anonymous White House officials were “shocked” that Hamas executed the hostages and have now hardened their negotiating position even more.

Israel should openly demand unconditional surrender, as the Allies did in WWII and as the Union did in the American Civil War, and should proceed to force Hamas to that end with unlimited warfare, as the Allies did in WWII and the Union did in the American Civil War.

BARBARA STREISAND LEARNED AND SO WILL HE:

Six months ago nobody, on the Internet scale, knew who the Brazilian judge was. In six months time he'll be a byword. For what is the only question.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) September 6, 2024

Dear Judge Alexandre. When you have something to hide, hide.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) September 6, 2024

BIPARTISAN CONTRARIANISM: At Power Line, Steve Hayward explores the potential contrarianism on the left:

Ax yourself a question (as Kamala Harris might put it): If you are an ambitious Democrat—say, Gavin Gruesom, Wretched Whitmer, Josh Shaprio, etc—do you really want Kamala Harris to win this election? If she does win, it would seem more likely than not that she’ll be the nominee again four years from now, which means that your next shot at running will be 2032. Today’s fair-haired Democrats like Newsom and Whitmer will be yesterday’s news by 2032. Much better for their own self-interest if she loses, and 2028 will be an open seat race since Trump will be limited to one term. I’ll bet they’d all fail a polygraph exam on this question.

I think it’s a pretty safe bet that numerous high-ranking Dems wouldn’t mind being able to play the role of the “change” candidate after four more years of Trump. But at Spectator World, Ben Domenech sees a similar “winning by losing” mindset among much more rank-and-file Republicans, and reminds them: No, Republicans don’t win by losing.

Welcome to Thunderdome. Without fail, in every cycle, some media commentator will pen a ludicrous piece about why Republicans should want to lose. They follow a similar, all-too-familiar script: if the Democrat wins the presidency, they will be restrained by the power of the Congress and the Courts from advancing a truly radical agenda; historically, their victory will lead to a sizable midterm backlash setting up for a better election the next time around; and the sooner the GOP rids itself of the baggage at the top of the ticket, the sooner it can elevate younger rising stars who haven’t been thoroughly villainized yet by the national media.

This argument is bunk — and the author is usually not stupid enough to actually believe it themselves. But it’s a useful argument to make in an attempt to undermine partisans and confuse fringe voters, and generally create the kind of chaotic debate that can get the Republicans squabbling among themselves. So that’s why an argument this stupid shows up time and again.

This time around we have a perfectly crafted version of this twaddle from Politico’s Jonathan Martin, in a piece titled “If Republicans Want to Win, They Need Trump to Lose — Big.” He vomits up this via his Acela corridor sources:

I’m not sure I agree with Domenech that this is all “twaddle” – there’s likely enough TDS among some Acela Republicans that they wouldn’t mind seeing the Bad Orange Man take a fall rather than return to the White House. Including, as Abigail Shrier speculated on Wednesday, one prominent conservative podcaster to justify his newfound historical contrarianism:

Curiously, with the iceberg looming dead ahead, Trump and Vance are dressed in their finest and prepared to go down like gentlemen:

UNDERCOVER VIDEO: Manhattan Attorney’s Office Spokesman Says Bragg’s Case Against Trump is ‘Nonsense.’

OUR RULING CLASS AT WORK: US surgeon general’s anti-parent doom will only worsen US fertility crisis.

Remember when the only time you heard from the surgeon general was via a notice on your cigarette package warning that consumption of tobacco was harmful?

Now, the federal government is handing out a diagnosis of misery to those deciding to become parents — proclaiming, in a professionally produced video replete with scary statistics, that an alarming 41% of parents “say that most days they are so stressed they cannot function.”

Oh, puhleez. Plus:

Meanwhile, there’s no lack of research supporting the idea that parenthood promotes happiness rather than gloom.

The Institute for Family Studies found in 2022 that about 25% of married women without children classified themselves as “very happy” — and almost 40% of married women with children said the same.

The cure for our national malaise — and it’s clear from the data on mental health that we are experiencing a crisis — isn’t turning what makes us happy into a medical issue, but promoting that which brings our lives joy, meaning and fulfillment.

Pathologizing parenthood isn’t how we fix what’s wrong in our country; quite the opposite.

True. The mental health crisis, and the stress of parenthood, is just part of the Curley Effect, which our dubious Surgeon General is promoting.

Related: Making families cool again — not federal cash — will solve US ‘birth dearth.’

FIRE’S 2025 COLLEGE FREE SPEECH RANKINGS SURVEYED 58,000 STUDENTS ACROSS 257 COLLEGES. One takeaway: A record 55% of students said the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is difficult to discuss openly on campus (Yes, I’m sure you’re shocked!). Dig into the data!

THOSE WHO CAN NEITHER CREATE NOR TEACH, CANCEL:  Woke Star Wars Acolyte Fan Demands YouTube Demonetize Content Creators.

DOING THE JOBS AMERICANS WON’T:  Merchants on infamous NYC block overrun with crooks, hookers begs for help: ‘Laughingstock of the nation’.

AS HE SHOULD:  Trump rips ‘deeply sick’ Dems for sympathizing with terrorists during virtual Republican Jewish Coalition appearance.

NOT EDUCATED. INDOCTRINATED:  Liberal Know-Nothingism.

THERE SEEMS TO BE SOMETHING ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK:  Feds raid home of NYPD Commish Edward Caban, other close Adams allies.

CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES? BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING AND APPROVES:  CBDCs aren’t a future threat: they are a present reality.

WHAT WAS THEIR FIRST CLUE?   10 Months Into Israel-Hamas War, Biden WH Doubts Terrorist Group Wants a Deal.

LET THE MASKS HIT THE FLOOR:  Another day, another Democrat outted as a liar.

AND WE’RE TIRED OF THEM:  The Media Lies Add Up.

AND SHE’LL TRY:  2019: Kamala Harris Promised to Weaponize DOJ Against Social Media to Fight Misinformation.

DUH:  Biden Admits Inflation Reduction Act was a Climate Change Law.

LIES DAM LIES AND POLLS:  Big Fat Duh.

Reminder: After 2016, if you take polls as evidence, then you fail middle-school, highschool, undergraduate, graduate, and real life statistical experiences, particularly if you conclude support for Harris.

Now, of course, all this is immaterial as what they’re using the polls for is to give plausibility to the fraud they intend to commit. Or not immaterial. Laughing at their polls might at least let some people know that the fraud is coming.

AS ANYONE WITH A MODICUM OF KNOWLEDGE KNOWS:  No, Winston Churchill Was Not the ‘Chief Villain’ of the Second World War.

ALWAYS ASK WHAT THE PURPOSE IS WHEN THE DOJ STOMPS AROUND:  The Psyop Inside the Psyop.

SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER:

"You should write laws for black people. Don't group us in with everybody else."

Kamala Harris, nodding: "That's right" pic.twitter.com/qJkf6i23r0

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 5, 2024

OPEN THREAD: Play nice, kids.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Senegal among new members of China’s ILRS moon base project.

HE’S NOT WRONG:

The whole idea of globalism and multiculturalism was to kill the country. The whole thing, the idea of it. The whole shebang. To make it cool to spit on the ashes of your fathers and the temples of your gods. To make it shameful in fact to even have a father or gods.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) September 5, 2024

The most offensive word in the phrase MAGA is "America". Ruins everything. Remove it and it will be alright.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) September 5, 2024

Treason used to be a shameful thing. Now it's a lot less embarrassing than misgendering someone.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) September 5, 2024

Well, in certain crowds.