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Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) denounced Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an “obstacle to peace” in a Thursday floor speech and called on Israel to hold a new election to replace the Netanyahu-led government amid its ongoing war with Hamas.
You never know Hamas might kill him last
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.
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.
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.
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