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Busting Some Freedom of Speech Myths

Posted: March 14, 2024 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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It is excruciatingly obvious that very few individuals living in the United States truly understand freedom of speech.  Those on the political left are not only clueless about this most fundamental right, they openly despise the very concept of it.  Thanks to our criminally atrocious educational system the younger generations are also clueless and also openly hostile to the concept of freedom of speech.  Unfortunately, those of us on the political right sometimes demonstrate a lack of understanding when it comes to freedom of speech.  It is now time to dispel the most common misconceptions about freedom of speech that I’ve encountered.

There is no hate speech exception to freedom of speech.

Someone asked me if I support the right of the KKK to hold rallies in public. My answer is: Even though I find the KKK absolutely reprehensible and I am completely disgusted by everything they stand for I support their right to say it in public. If I found out there was a KKK rally planned in my area I would work tirelessly to organize a PEACEFUL protest and I would make sure my protest would completely dwarf the KKK rally. That is the essence of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. No one has a right to silence others, no matter how much they disagree with what others have to say. No one has a right to prevent another person, or group, from holding an event, or to interfere with that event in any way. Everyone has a right to peacefully protest anytime they want.

Even the most reprehensible individuals have a right to say the most reprehensible things. 

Far too often those on the political left label speech that contradicts leftist orthodoxy as hate speech.  They then use the declaration of hate speech as a weapon to silence that speech they disagree with.

There is no misinformation exception to freedom of speech.

Each and every individual has a right to spread whatever lies they wish to spread, on whatever medium they wish to use.  Outright spreading of misinformation and disinformation is most definitely protected by freedom of speech. 

Labeling speech that contradicts the progressive narrative as misinformation, and then censoring that speech is a favorite tactic of the Marxists who masquerade as Democrats.

The First Amendment specifically prohibits the federal government from policing speech.

Each and every attempt at regulating speech by the federal government is a direct violation of the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.  That includes so called hate speech and misinformation.  The federal government has zero authority to define those concepts, and zero authority to classify speech according to those criteria.  The federal government has absolutely no authority to ban any speech at all.

Every state has a Bill of Rights that protects the rights of those living there from the tyranny of the state government and the local governments.  That includes freedom of speech.

The Bill of Rights does not grant rights.

All rights are granted to each and every individual directly by God.  The Bill of Rights is merely a restraining order that prohibits the federal government from infringing on, or regulating, our most fundamental rights in any way.  There is no such thing as a First Amendment Right, only God-given Natural Rights.

Governments most definitely do not grant rights.

Silence is golden Under the Fedora

Posted: March 13, 2024 by datechguy in Uncategorized

There is a famous saying of President Calvin Coolidge: “I have never been hurt by what I have not said.” This was good advice that some people don’t take to wit:

Someone should have told Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapa that. She during the testimony of special council Robert Hur claimed Biden was “exonerated” by him. When Hur tried to correct him she attempted to silence him and repeated the claim causing the chairman to give him the time to specifically state under oath that he did NOT exonerate Joe Biden.

For weeks the MSM have been making that claim and it only took a few seconds for Jayapa to blow it on camera.

That’s a campaign ad right there.

South Carolina representative Rep Adam Morgan made a speech on the floor of his legislature talking about dark money lobbying groups trying to flip his vote on a subject and noted it’s his job to represent the people. Representative J. Todd Rutherford, the Democrat minority leader decided that such as statement required a response.

That was a bad idea:

It’s one thing to ignore the voters of your district to do the will of fat cat lobbyists’, tons of pols do that. It’s another thing to state publicly for the record that said fat cats know better than the people who vote for you.

Right now with the Israel Hamas War in full swing propaganda is a big weapon. Hamas has been rather successful in pushing an interesting narrative of falsehoods both in the UN and on campus at universities around the world.

But the ability to push such narratives depending on not losing your credibility by saying things like, oh I don’t know, cows are being recruiting and trained as spies by the Jewish state, and then publishing such claims.

The really funny thing? There are so many such conspiracy theories concerning the Jews using animals to spy on Palestinians from killer dolphins to rats carrying plague that there is an entire wikipedia page dedicated to them.

Personally I think providing Israel with a talking point saying in response to Hamas propaganda: Excuse me, you’re takings the claims of people who claim cows are spying on them? Seriously? is a bad idea, but apparently that’s just me.

Speaking of Israel there is a big music event taking place in Texas called SXSW that draws artists from all over the world. Apparently quite a few of them got their knickers in a twist because one of the primary sponsors of the event is the US Army.

Now the Army has not been doing all that well lately (you know dropping the whole Duty, Honor Country thing etc) but apparently because the US still officially supports Israel it’s not woke enough for some artists who made a big fuss about boycotting. This drew the following response from Texas’ governor:

Apparently the South by Southwest festival decided that could not stand:

I would think supporting those attacking your biggest sponsor might just be a bad idea, but we’ll see.

Elon Musk

Posted: March 12, 2024 by chrisharper in Uncategorized

By Christopher Harper

I doubt I will ever own an electric car. I have no desire to be a colonizer of Mars. But I’m happy that Elon Musk is interested in EVs and Mars and bought Twitter, now known as X.

As a result, I decided to learn more about the 52-year-old Musk and read Walter Isaacson’s useful and somewhat flawed biography of the billionaire entrepreneur.

Isaacson details the trials and tribulations of Musk’s ventures as he used his engineering background to dig deep into the workings of automobiles, space flight, artificial intelligence, and social media.

A member of a wealthy South African family, Musk was born in Pretoria and immigrated to Canada at 18, obtaining citizenship through his Canadian-born mother. He moved to California in 1995 to attend Stanford but dropped out after a few days.

Musk co-founded the online software company Zip2 with his brother Kimbal. After Compaq paid $307 million to acquire Zip2, Musk bootstrapped his earnings into various businesses, starting in 1999 with X.com, an online bank.

With the $100 million he made from eBay’s purchase of PayPal, Musk founded SpaceX, a spaceflight services company. Two years later, he became an early investor in EV manufacturer Tesla Motors, Inc. (now Tesla, Inc.). He became its chairman and product architect, assuming the position of CEO in 2008. Seven years later, he co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit artificial intelligence research company. In 2016, Musk co-founded Neuralink, a company developing interfaces between human brains and computers. In 2022, he acquired Twitter for $44 billion. He merged the company into the newly created X Corp. and rebranded the service as X the following year.

Isaacson reports how Musk almost went bankrupt in 2008 when Tesla couldn’t meet its production quotas, and SpaceX had trouble getting its rockets to fly successfully. But Musk marched down to the production floors of his businesses, reengineering key components, cutting costs, and turning the corporations into viable operations. According to Forbes, by 2012, he was the wealthiest person in the world.

Isaacson’s intimate portrait of Musk describes his bullying in early life at home and school. He also suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism, which makes him capable of intense concentration on complicated details of running his businesses but also makes him rather meteoric and unpredictable in his decisions and his relationships with partners and employees.

Unfortunately, Isaacson tells the stories chronologically, so the year-by-year structure jumps from business to business rather than giving a comprehensive picture of one operation at a time.

Twitter is the most interesting example of Musk’s tenacity. Only weeks after buying the company, he fired more than 75 percent of what he considered bloated staff, mainly because of what he considered the leftist bent of the enterprise’s massive “content moderation.” He invited journalists to investigate the previous regime of Twitter, which provided interesting reading and even congressional hearings into the way the company was run and how the content moderators had censored various stories, such as those on Hunter Biden.

What comes across is that Musk is an amazing entrepreneur and visionary–albeit a rather complicated character to understand.

Don Surber and Lara Trump Get It Does the Donald?

Posted: March 11, 2024 by datechguy in election 2020, election 2024, elections, elections, politics
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For months now, I’ve been looking at this and going “They have a coup planned. The fix is in.” And everyone told me oh, no, I was seeing things.
Tonight we watched states called for Biden before votes were counted, while states that Trump has a solid lead in, stop counting.
And if you need help seeing what’s before your eyes, the left has for weeks now claimed Trump was going to attempt a coup. How many years have you known they accuse you of what they’re doing? What are you? Stupid?

Sarah Hoyt November 2020

The unexpected victory of Donald Trump in 2016 was a giddy time for conservatives. There were a lot of memes celebrating and a classic set of youtube videos of the calls of the various states that got a ton of views as they upset the MSM to no end.

A lot of people in their joy forgot that when Trump was on the verge of victory things just seemed to stop when it came to vote counting, particularly in in PA, and Wisconsin. For some reason it took hours for the final states to put Trump over the top. Furthermore once Trump went up to give his victory speech all those states together suddenly got called.

I have maintained for years that the reason for this was the Democrats who thought the election was in the bag were trying to steal the election on the fly and eventually found they could not. Once they realized they weren’t prepared the states were called expect for New Hampshire where there just happened to be a key Senate race where democrat fraud squad was ready and able to save said seat and give the state to Clinton as a consolation prize.

So while most were still celebrating the defeat of Hillary Clinton I gave the conservative movement in general and Donald Trump in particular one of the best pieces of advice I had ever given in my life:

Democrat Bosses in Wisconsin Michigan and Minnesota had no inkling that the election was close, that being the case there was no reason why, in an age where proof of a federal offense is a cell phone video away, Dem bosses in Detroit or elsewhere felt the need to take any risk.  They figured those states were won (and they were right about Minnesota) and by election night it was too late to change it.

However that won’t be the case in 2020,  I’ll wager that in 2020 the bosses in Milwaukee, Detroit, Madison and elsewhere will be ready, we’ll see plenty of mail in ballots and absentee ballots that we didn’t see before in those states and plenty of voters looking to go for the GOP will be in the same spot that Steven Kruiser was on election night.

We have four years to prepare for this so we’d better get ready because as our friends on the left have demonstrated in the past, they play for keeps.

After all you don’t think Soros has been quietly sinking millions into AG races, you know the people who would be protesting election fraud on a local level, just because it’s fun?

You have all been warned

Well this warning about election fraud and Soros and DA races was completely ignored and thus Election 2020 was stolen, Americans were and are still being imprisoned and the worst four years this country has gone through since World War Two has been the result.

However there is a glimmer of hope that people are finally getting it and one of this is one of the new co-chairs of the GOP Lara Trump:

“Unfortunately, we don’t have one day of voting, we don’t have paper ballots, we don’t have voter ID everywhere. So we have to play the hand that we’re dealt,” Trump said, noting the importance of early voting and mail-in voting where possible. “That way, we have votes banked as we head into Election Day, and we’re not playing catch up on Nov. 5 with the Democrats.”

“We need to be doing legal ballot harvesting — something that has never been done by the RNC, but I can promise you will be a huge part of what we’re planning to do,” she added. “And then come Election Day, and you’ll see that, I think, it’s not just about having poll watchers. It’s about having trained poll watchers and lawyers at locations around the country as necessary. And these are people who will be trained and able to physically count how many ballots are coming in. And how many ballots are going out.”

Trump said her goal is to “have people’s trust restored in our electoral process.” 

Via Citizen Free Press

If you want to know why little miss Romney needed to be replaced, this speech is it. Don Surber has noted this and has given the Trump train a warning:

But the election comes down to Trump stopping a second steal. He rightly has bitched about it for years. Now it is put up or shut up. My tough love for him is to dare to remind him: fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Don Suber has some clout with the Trumps that I don’t perhaps they will listen. If they don’t it’s on them but the primary consequences will be on us.

I’ll give Sarah Hoyt the last word from election night 2020:

A second Trump term means a good chance that they go down hard and don’t get up again.
ALL OF THEM from the left politicians to the so called “tech lords” are fighting for their lives.
They’re cornered rats. There’s nothing they won’t do.
And all we have against them is Trump.
Stop calling Trump names.  Put on your big boy or girl pants.
They’re fighting for their lives.  And we are too. Because — look at Venezuela — socialism kills.

We have been warned, AGAIN!

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