One of my friends that I’ve made on Substack, John Holmes, commented
to me on my last post: “It's all down to vote fraud now. Trump has this
in the bag if the election is fair.”
This is so true, especially
after Trump held a news conference in a garbage truck on the way to a
rally in WI. What an amazing stroke of brilliance! Only Trump or his
team could dream that up! We are up against pure evil all around us and
we need a miracle.
I replied:
No doubt about
it, especially how Bidet and Karmela Chameleon showed us who REALLY are
the garbage. The cheating will be epic, but maybe Trump takes some
States where the Dems are unprepared to cheat?? Could he squeak by??? By
now, you see where Trump did a news conference in a garbage truck on
the way to a rally in WI?? So. Frigging. Brilliant.
Funny,
when I read American history and the battles that Geo Washington fought
with his ragtag army of ordinary citizens, or when the weather
cooperated in his narrow escapes from disaster or stunning victories
(like Trenton), I think I see/saw the divine hand of providence tipping the scales. Maybe we'll see Providence at work in a few days. But the battle ahead is perilous and enormous.
Godspeed
to the Trump dream team. If anyone deserves to win it's this coalition
of geniuses, patriots, and high integrity Dems/Repubs. It's too good to
be true, but it is true!!
I’ve argued in my old posts about Theology (see A Theology for the 21st Century, A Theology for the 21st Century: An Open Letter to Atheists and Non-Believers. and A Theology for the 21st Century: Faith Is Not Believing The Unbelievable),
that God, the Divine, the depth/heart of reality, Pure being-itself,
works softly and gently in our hearts and mind, to persuade and pull us
and all of creation toward the good. There is no all-powerful,
thundering God in process theology, but a persistent, persuasive,
creative force or “pull to the good” in the universe— pulling every
‘thing’ toward higher levels of being and ultimately joy. In humans,
this “tug to the good” works in our hearts and minds in a way to “tip
the scales”or influence our actions and thoughts in the direction of
the ‘good’ and ultimately joy which is God’s realm.
He’s
pulling all of creation toward higher levels of being and actualization
over the unimaginable expanses of time. His highest creation, man, is
called to be a co-creator with God. He needs our help! The destination
is deep enjoyment (joy).
This gentle and subtle force of God can
and is easily ignored as we can plainly see. Evil is overwhelming much
of humanity on Earth right now. Maybe mankind will destroy itself. God
will suffer, but remain at work over billions of years to pull forth
and re-create life, and maybe intelligent life back into existence if
the Earth and humanity are destroyed.
You know I have been saying
that the chances are very low for a Trump victory given the $billions
of dark money from China and nefarious intruders NGOs,1000s of election
manipulation organizations, backed by big, dark money, in our elections.
The battle ahead is enormous as evil is triumphing.
But if
Trump’s team of patriots made up of geniuses, high-integrity democrats
led by a public relations genius in Trump, manages to overcome
WIDESPREAD BOGUS BALLOT FRAUD made possible by mail-in ballots, it might
be due, in part, to the “tipping of the scales” by our gentle,
persuasive, loving God. I hope so, because it’ll take a miracle.
Tucker Carlson just got a standing ovation at the Trump rally after going on one of the most passionate rants I've ever seen from him
His breakdown of the Democrat party is perfect: "It's the party of weirdos, of envy, of hate, of resentment, of bitterness, of weakness, of a… pic.twitter.com/xNpIYp7Yl6
The story the country tells itself about reality has flipped. None of
the normal people are supporting the democratic machine. Tim Walz is
supporting the democratic machine. A man you would never allow to
babysit your own children. That’s the archetype. It’s the party of
weirdos, of envy, of hate, of resentment, of bitterness, of weakness, of
a total lack of creativity. It’s a party of conformity. It’s a party of
the machine, where it doesn’t matter who the candidate is because
individuals are immaterial. All that matters is the collective.
That’s
the Soviet model. Opposing them is the rest of the country, slowly
waking In the sense of the fact that these people have no moral
authority whatsoever. They have no legitimacy in a democracy where the
government must rule by the consent of the governed. They have no
consent.
And, the way that they’ve treated this country over the
past four years is the most shocking thing I’ve ever seen in 55 years.
To allow millions of people, mostly young men with no skills and no
English, into our country illegally, and then flood them around at our
expense and give them phones and put them on welfare programs that no
American citizen can get. It is the most insulting. Yeah, boo. But it’s
worse than boo. That’s the biggest crime in the history of the United
States of America.
It takes incredible, It takes incredible
stones, incredible gall for the people who did that to stand up there on
a stage and give you a lecture about how you’re immoral. It’s too much.
That’s
the second important thing about this election. The first is every
person in this room needs to understand you are not in a despised
minority. You are in an incredibly gentle and tolerant majority who put
up with this crap for way too long. As they insulted not only you, but
the memory of your ancestors who died for this country. They tore down
statues to their memory. People have never built anything in their
lives. They went out of their way to humiliate you and spit on you and
the graves of your ancestors. That’s not an exaggeration. They did that.
This
country is so nice, it’s so polite, it’s so thoughtful and empathetic
and sweet. It’s the kind of country that loves dogs and gives directions
to strangers that we put up with it for four years, but we can’t
anymore.
We just can’t.
RFK Jr. Says Voting for Harris is Basically Voting for Nuclear War
Our truly insane Neocon freaks must be stopped. Just a 5 minute video, well worth a 5 minute listen from X:
If you want to avoid nuclear war, I strongly urge you to vote for Donald Trump. In fact, I would go so far as to say that a vote for Kamala Harris is a vote for nuclear war. pic.twitter.com/HC4smGEgZ7
When you see that trading is done, not by
consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you
need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see
that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors -
when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and
your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you -
when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a
self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed."
-A. Rand
Tucker Carlson spoke to a group of people on X talking about how
worthless our bureaucrats, academics and politicians are: Take a look
for 3 minutes of distilled truth and deserved derision:
"In the last election Biden voters owned 70% of the wealth in the United States and Trump voters owned 30% and I thought to myself: on the one hand it's like okay Republican Party's now the party of working-class people great but then I thought how did they get 70% of the wealth they don't do anything?"
"Actually," Carlson goes on, "they have no skills. There's nothing they do that we really need."
"If your average Biden voter somehow like got pulled out of the workforce, would you be okay?"
"How long do you think this country could survive without private equity? A week? Before we all just starve to death.
"How long could you and your family make it without a DEI consultant on site? ...I'm serious. Could you get to Halloween? Or will one of your little children stare up at you with doe eyes and say, Mommy, I need a DEI consultant. I need it now. Honestly, I need a school counselor or some heavy set nurses who can convince me to go trans. I need that."
"Honestly, I need Tim Walz talking to me about my sex life in high school. Really, I need a creep like Tim Walz. No, I do. I need that... Not creepy okay let's your instincts be your guide on that one let me just say as I always would tell my children someone seems creepy he is."
"Am
I indicting him for the crime nope I don't have any evidence. I don't
need any that guy's a creep, sorry. Chances are my dogs would bark at
Tim Walz if he came over to my house, 100%. Oh yeah they would. They'd
back him into a corner and be like, stop that! And they wouldn't stop.
Because they know.":
"But the point is
that entire, not just political party, but class of people has created
an entire economy and credentialing system to reward themselves with
money and power that is not deserved."
"That's exactly the truth. I don't like to swear, but the phrase bullshit jobs is a real thing. Those are all bullshit jobs, every single one of them..."
"And yet they're lecturing people who, I don't know, plumb your house, keep you from getting murdered,
put out the fires when they start, rescue you after a car crash on the
highway, build the building you live in, pave the road you drive on,
grow the food you eat."
"Those are the deplorables? Really? Good luck when the power goes out, honey. You can call your average college administrator to save you."
Their 2nd Desperate Election Steal in November:
There
is NO WAY THAT THEY WILL LET TRUMP TAKE OFFICE, come hell or high
water. Their pathetic, criminal "feeding trough" of other people's money
cannot be relinquished (or even threatened)!!
Sociopaths,
idiots and liars, like “news” anchors/reporters, Fauci, Janet Yellen or
idiot John Kerry, can't make it in the "real world" where you have to
produce something useful by honest work!! People in gov’t, NGOs and
academia can't survive outside of their fake, propped-up world of
other-people's-money!!!!!! If they don't have that, they'd starve to
death or not be notable at all!! THAT'S WHY THEY'LL
FIGHT/CHEAT/STEAL/KILL TO MAINTAIN THEIR ENRICHED, FAKE, PATHETIC
'WORLD’!
Because Gov’t or Academia is all they’ve got! They can’t
really do anything useful! Their whole, fake life of easy and ill-gotten
money might come to an end. And to be a mere plebian is unacceptable!
Maybe
Trump can prevail, but I expect large-scale bogus ballot fraud to
continue for many days after election day ( like last time). For
starters, many of the 30 million illegal’s fake ballot votes will all be
observed by Lara Trump’s 1000’s of Republican observers, as they are
counted and will therefore CERTIFY those phony votes! The “party of
dumb” has little idea of the bogus ballot machine at work. There’s big
money at work to accomplish the steal. You see, there’s millions of
bogus ballots sent to bogus “residences” with addreses listed as 7-11s,
Wawas, strip malls, Walmarts, vacant buildings, vacant lots. (All of
these locations can be viewed with Google Maps in “street view”as
OmegaforAmerica has done.) Then cheaters: NGOs, Democrats and their
armies paid by dark, even Chinese money will round-up all of these
bullcrap ballots and get them into the system. Many of these bogus
ballots will accumulate at local Post offices as “undeliverable” and
picked-up by Democrat operatives. Expect many of the black (and other)
democrats working at those post offices to hand off these “ballots” to
paid Leftists, who will help get these phony ballots filled out and into
unattended ballot boxes. It’s probably already happening.
The Democrat’s thirst for illegals to utilize in the next Election Fraud is huge.
The
President of the Senate decides the results of the Electoral College
tally. Guess who that is? It’s the VP, ie., Komrad Kamala!!
Dems/Kamala
Chameleon will try to use the fake insurrection charge against Mr.
Trump to de-certify the election IF Trump squeaks through. It's so fake!
But it's been their plan since 2020. These people are like the Russian
Bolsheviks and want war, theft and revolution. If they prevail, then
it's Communism, Revolution and war. Expect honest/outspoken Republicans
to be rounded-up!! It sounds insane, but you wait!! Hopefully I'm
wrong, but I doubt it!! I think the military might fracture. Civil
War??
It could last months. I'm just guessing. There will be no
peace because the Democrats are horrible, deranged
people/niggers-of-all-colors. Their true ‘colors’ will be clearly
visible.
I wouldn't be surprised if the resulting mess ends up at the Supreme Court. It may take months! That's the BEST case.
People
that live and work in our big cities, the large megalopolises, the big
universities and ESPECIALLY around "Government" are often completely
disconnected from everything that is important. They don’t even know
from where their food comes. They are fools, ignoramuses, idiots!
‘They’ Can’t Make it in the “Real” World of Useful, Productive Work as Tucker Says
I
remember Mayor Bloomberg, when he tried to get into politics, making
fun of farmers when he said, "Gee, you poke a hole in the ground, and
drop in a seed!" What could be easier?" But he was so tone deaf that
even New Yorkers didn't vote for him.
First, he has no idea of how
difficult and risky farming is. He has no idea how hard farmers have to
work to make a living. It's said that farming is the only profession
where you have to buy "inputs" at retail prices and sell your product at
wholesale prices. Bloomberg could NEVER, EVER make billions in farming
or any other honest, productive work.
Bloomberg and millions of
others in the New York city area, and on both coasts, are basically
parasites, feasting on the fabulously wealthy financial system. They
have no idea from where their food comes!
Most people who
live around and work in “government,”universities, big Media, big Tech,
show business, government think tanks, NGOs, the Federal Reserve usually
are amazingly ignorant, full of their academic and/or Marxist theories,
full of leftist propaganda and frankly full of shit. There, they can be and often are completely wrong about everything for all of their lives and never have to face any consequences.
You
see that in spades with eCONomists (like childish Janet Yellen),
tenured professors, college administrators, nearly all the Fed Reserve
heads (all PhDs), all the career government people, career politicians,
the twenty-something fact-checkers and (former) censors at Twitter and
at other (anti-)social media companies, teleprompter readers at “news”
rooms (especially minority ones, but hardly limited to them), and nearly
all Leftists. This is the big problem of Leftism. They’re are usually
wrong about everything. They don’t have any common sense. They don’t
know that they completely wrong!! They are so wrong that they are actually deluded. And they believe that everyone else is wrong!
The Clinton Archipelago
Most
of these people live on one of the islands of the “Clinton
archipelago.” These are of the people on the Left. Many of the smallest
“islands” scattered around are where universities or State capitals are
located. The biggest “islands" are where the biggest metro areas have
developed into megalopolises on both coasts—the centers of our
hyperfinancialized “economy” or in Hispanic or Black areas.
People
that inhabit college towns or State Capitals: politicians, professors,
PhD students and other students, that are funded by $trillions in Gov’t
student loans, can live effortlessly and at ease as trillions of dollars
of money flow to the university towns (often at State Capitals with
their additional inflow of tax dollars). This has enabled the bloated
and woke administrations at State capitals and the Universities; who now
offer new bullshit majors for the mentally deficit so they can attend
“college”. Many stay on. Who wouldn’t want to live in a paradise like
that?
Most the “islanders” have enjoyed the biggest financial
bubbles of ALL TIME. Many of these people feel so confident and superior
to the fly-over people. Afterall many are richer than Midas ever
dreamed and they create new Islands like Jackson Hole, WY called “Teton
Island” in the map above.
Many of these people feel like they are
Gods and that they think they are so wealthy because they are so
virtuous, correct and wise. These “masters of the universe” are really
full of themselves! They are so confident that their version reality is
vindicated, and they gleefully “cancel” those less “worthy” — the
flyover people and especially Trump sympathizers. They feel vindicated
and righteous and often dead wrong.
The Virtues Of Fly-Over Persons
I’ve
spent plenty of time in Thailand and recently in Cambodia. They’re
very happy places. There, and everywhere Thai or Khmer people live, they
will create a small community of locals even in crowded Bangkok. Up
until recently, everyone was equally poor, so there was no “class
warfare.” Of course there are many small villages outside of the big
city.
In all of these small communities, everyone knows everyone
very well. It’s impossible for a young person, or any member of that
community to live in a fantasy world or deceive or delude themselves in
any way about anything (gender, doing chores, working, going to temple)
because everyone knows you very well and they will immediately disabuse
you for any foolishness or any delusions. This situation fosters mental
health and happiness. I also believe that SE Asians are genetically
predisposed to being joyful.
Like those who live in small communities in US “flyover” land, as in Thailand or Cambodia, everyone really
knows you and they know the land and how food is produced and
harvested. It’s harder to hide or stay deluded there. There’s more sense
of unity there and in their faith communities. There, they usually do honest work of actually producing something useful like food, services or raise families.
Funny
thing about doing “real, productive work” in small-ish communities, it
causes/forces you to intimately interact with reality directly and
repeatedly —often for your entire life. And reality is a tough broad.
She’s a harsh teacher. You’re immediately disabused of any thought that
is NOT based in reality. This is the origin of wisdom and common sense. Some use the term “horse sense.” None of it comes from a lifetime in academia or government.
These
are among the strengths of the supposedly “unsophisticated” flyover
people who are belittled and hated by the undeservedly wealthy in the
big ”money center” cities on both coasts or who inhabit the Clinton
Archipelago.
The Clintonistas hate them because horse
sense trumps their highly vaunted academic “learning” or their
propaganda nearly every time. The people with horse sense
(Conservative types, Trump sympathizers, Thai/Khmer people) are nearly
always right because they are reality-based and have wisdom through
experience, ie., common sense.
Conservative persons are basically correct all the time in their assessment of events. It also shows that academia harms
the rise of common sense or horse sense, especially career
academics/bureaucrats. And Trump supporters can smell a crock of shit a
mile away. They mostly get it right. See my post How Trump Voters Formed an Ugly—and Accurate—View of America’s Ruling Regime. This is why they are enemy #1.
The
Left doesn’t get it. They’re phony, wrong, full of shit and they hate
the fly-over bumpkins, the Trump sympathizers and detest their
horse-sense or common sense. They accuse Trumpers of having unfounded
conspiracy theories and scoff at those spreading “misinformation.” But
these “conspiracy theories,” based on intuition and common sense, turn
out to be true nearly all the time.
The products of this
dichotomy between relatively grounded fly-overs and the spoiled and
deluded Leftist “Islanders”are huge. Flyover-land is suffering mightily
as jobs and entire industries were offshored to Asia during the last 40
years. There’s enormous despair, wealth inequality and damage. There has
been an economic refugee crisis in our country where people are leaving
their smaller towns and migrating to the centers of
hyperfinancialization, ie., the big cities in the Clinton Archipelago. I
know because I see so many out-of-state license tags here in Texas. I
always feel bad because I pity those left behind in the economically
depressed heartland. Their story is never told. Flyover people are
suffering. You can’t blame them for voting for Trump.
Now the
divide has devolved into culture war and outright war by the Biden
Bolsheviks (we won’t even go into this Junta begging for war with Russia
and even World War). And our society is beset with multiple crises of
incompetence, ignorance, delusional thinking, mental illness,
pathological lying, thievery, malfeasance and culture wars.
The
Left are such fools and they don’t even know it. Contrast them with the
wisdom of the grounded Amish, who are all about maintaining real
community, faith, growing their own food and doing honest work. HONEST
WORK! Now there’s a concept for you! Those “bumpkins” didn't take the
highly janky covid “vaccine,” and very few, if any, died. They made a
mockery of the hysteria, bad advice and phony “medicine” and continued
their good work.
Easy Money, QE Forever, Financial Parasites, Bubbles Galore
The
big cities, on both coasts, are now centers of our extraordinarily
"hyper-financialized economy" where people make enormous amounts of
money just by creating and trading assets, often reselling the same
things, just with different names.
It's biblical "money changing" on steroids
being fed a steady supply of new digital (fake) money by the government
that inflates EVERYTHING, making all the parasites, and anyone that
owns housing and assets like stocks, fabulously wealthy ---for doing
nothing!! They’ve never had to break a sweat! Easy peasy, you’re
rewarded for taking on as much debt as you possibly can. What could go
wrong?
We live in a time where nearly everything is
fraudulent. Ponzi schemes abound and are sustained by successive rounds
of fresh (digital) money by "government." Financial frauds and
financial games abound and pay entire armies of financial parasites.
Even
our artificially inflated money supply is increasingly divorced from
our nation’s REAL productivity. You know; real, useful stuff made
through HARD WORK, which is supposed to be the basis for our stock of
money? Now, trillions of digital dollars are created overnight by the
government using a few simple key strokes on a keyboard. The result is
income and wealth inequality is off the charts and now there’s
inflation.
The people in hyper-financialized urban areas receive
this FAKE money first. It’s deposited in the big bank’s accounts in the
centers of hyperfinancialism. It must be like magic to be close to all
that fresh money! Naturally much of it filters into various financial
markets inflating them to the moon. Those “handling” the many
transactions live in penthouses, gated communities and high rises with
restricted entries. Some of even live on private islands. The money
changers are not only crowding "the Temple,"they crowd entire cities and
live as parasites on this bloated financial system -- an ossifying and
bloated "system."
The US Government collossus itself is the
biggest Ponzi scheme in the world fed by an enormous influx of tax
dollars; trillions per annum and always rising, and fed by endlessly
rising debt and, of course, funny money. Washington and the 5 wealthiest
counties that surround it contain a small nation's population of people
who exist on other people's dime or, worse, live on money "willed into
existence" by government money printers — inflating (devaluing) the
hard-earned savings of the fly-over people.
Here’s the thing, when
the greatest financial bubbles of all time, the everything bubble,
bursts, it will likely be a shock for the arrogant and pompous. If or
when fake money goes “poof” to money heaven and their wealth is either
worth less or disappears, there’s likely to be biblical wailing and
gnashing of teeth. This should have already happened, but instead, each
time markets wobble, it brings a barrage of “fresh” new “money” printed
into existence to cover the massive speculation and inevitable losses of
financial panic. Bubbles can't be allowed to burst now—they are too
big.
When/if the bloated financial system collapses, no
doubt, with all the ‘money changing’ going on that is counted as"GDP,"
our nation’s economy will be revealed as something much smaller in the
same way the exaggerated illusion of strength and power of the Soviet
Union shrunk by 90% or so when it collapsed. We’re living in a house of
cards just like the old Soviet Union. See my posts The West is Collapsing as Russia is Rising and More Evidence That Russia Is Rising as The West is Collapsing.
We're
seeing the decline and fall of America in real time. I guess it was
inevitable. Many republics only last 240 years or so as people's
representatives can all be bought and manipulated. Perhaps it's because
"good times create weak men." If this is so, this implies however, that
we are due for hard times to create strong men once again.
“RFK
Jr sat down for an interview with Jordan Peterson and explained the
meeting that took place between himself and Donald Trump, which
ultimately led to them coming to an agreement about joining forces and
working together.
RFK Jr reveals the three key priorities that he
demanded he be put in charge of in the new government, he talks about
how much more ready Trump will be to transition the government which is
something he admits he was not ready for in 2016, and finally talks
about the others who are coming on board this administration like Tulsi
Gabbard, JD Vance, and Elon Musk.
This has Jordan Peterson
nodding in exciting agreement, as it should for you also if you care
about the direction of America. Just this week former head of the CDC
Robert Redfield who has been critical of RFK Jr in the past endorsed
Trumps plan to put RFK Jr in charge of a Commission on Childhood Chronic
Disease.
As a parent especially, how could we not want this man doing this work in the Trump administration?
Imagine
as well Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy overseeing government efficiency,
Tulsi Gabbard and JD Vance standing up to the military industrial
complex as you just heard will be a priority of this administration.
As
RFK Jr reiterates here, this is an entrepreneurial, moral,
America-First, and proven group of leaders most capable of getting
America and Americans back on the path to our full potential.
I’ll say it again and again, we have the opportunity to elect a once in a generation administration here. We cannot miss this.”
I am proud to say I am voting for Trump after 45 years being a Democrat. If someone has a problem with that -then I have a problem too because I cannot understand how anyone could vote for Biden. That caused all these people to die. pic.twitter.com/mkZ7JTzGtc
— Thomas Sowell, The Genius of... (@AlanWolan) October 9, 2024
All that + I grew up in a Communist country. I am voting to prevent (or at least to delay) Communism in America. I already see all the signs of it. They were calling it a Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Idk about the Proletariat part but it definitely was a Dictatorship, where…
Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Democrat Law School Deans Say Free
Speech Threatens Their Agendas. Democrats are no longer the party of
John F. Kennedy. They and their media whores are the party of Joseph
Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda.
“We are not afraid to
entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien
philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let
its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation
that is afraid of its people.” — President John F. Kennedy.
Hillary Says the First Amendment means “We Lose Total Control”
Clinton Continues Her Censorship Campaign on CNN, and the presstitute media supports their own demise.
Jonathan
Turley notes that Hillary and the Democrats want free speech only for
their ideological agendas. Everyone else has to shut up.
Watch tens of millions of dumbshit Americans vote for this tyranny on November 4.
If Empire Of Lies Crumbles, Hillary Clinton Warns: “We’ll Lose Total Control”
Hillary
Clinton told CNN host Michael Smerconish that unless social media
companies are censored “we lose total control.” Only censorship and the
First Amendment’s destruction can save the Elites’ Empire of Lies.
Wall
Street Journal Editor Emma Tucker said: “We owned the news. We were the
gatekeepers, and we very much owned the facts as well.”
She added
that people are learning that they cannot trust the whore media and
that, consequently, the presstitutes are having a difficult time
protecting the official narratives, which are lies that permit a handful
of corrupt elites to impose their agendas.
The First Amendment is
under full scale attack by Democrats. They openly admit that it is a
major block to their ability to gain power by manipulating the
information that people receive.
“A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes
flagrantly artificial: that is when its ruling class has lost its
function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.”
When Hillary Clinton was running for what she deemed her rightful place in the White House, she paid for the many, many lies that kicked off the Russia hoax and led to the endless persecution via lawfare of practically everyone in Trump’s inner circle.
None of them were guilty of any crimes.
All
that Democrat malice cost taxpayers millions of dollars – the Mueller
Report was the tip of their persecution iceberg. All of their
accusations were lies.
When Donald Trump won, the left made
sure that chaos ensued. It was a miracle that Trump accomplished all
the good he did – energy independence, tax cuts for all (not just the
rich as Harris claims), the Abraham Accords, low inflation, a post-COVID
recovering economy and low unemployment despite the ravages of
lockdowns.
When Joe Biden was faux-running for the presidency from his basement, he knew the fix was in, because it was.
The
thoroughly corrupt mainstream media was delighted to use their vast
reach to repeat all the lies the Democrats came up with to destroy
Trump. The 2020 election was rigged and everyone knows
it, even all those media tools of the left who pretend to this day that
that election was legitimate. They love to claim that “every judge who
looked at the evidence refused to take the numerous legal cases the
Trump campaign filed.” But no judge ever looked at the volumes of
evidence; they all denied the cases had standing. They were all too
cowardly to actually look at the evidence available, to expose the
truth.
The Democrats’ guilt on this score probably
explains their obsession with trying to make any and all Republicans
admit that Biden won fairly even though they know he did not.
They know the truth. Molly Ball bragged about it.
They all know that Democrat lawyer Mark Elias went across the country
surreptitiously changing election laws. They know that social media
magnate Mark Zuckerberg funneled $400 million into those drop boxes that
were stuffed by mules with thousands of fraudulent ballots.
They all know that on election night, Trump was so far ahead the counting of ballots was stopped for hours.
They
needed time to come up with the ballots needed to produce a Biden win.
They all know this is what happened. They all lied and continue to lie.
Never Forget
They lie as well about whose rhetoric has generated two assassination attempts.
Curiously,
we do not yet know nearly as much as we should about the two shooters,
but every sentient person on the planet knows that the left’s language
over the last nine years has been purposefully murderous; still is.
So
now, after nearly four years of the worst, most disastrous
administration in our nation’s history by every metric, Kamala Harris
is trying to become president based on the lie that she has a record
worth touting. She does not. She was appointed Biden’s “border czar”
about which she did exactly nothing; other than a stopover in El Paso,
she only visited the actual border for the first time a week or so ago
for twenty minutes, wearing her $62,000 Tiffany necklace!
The
hurricane victims are simply out of luck despite the lies that White
House spokesperson, Karine Jean Pierre, tells to the contrary. Most
people will believe the hundreds of clips of victims telling the truth.
FEMA is AWOL. It seems that this administration has been using FEMA
money, $1b of it, to care for the millions of illegal migrants the
Biden/Harris administration has ushered into the country. Their
horrific, seemingly purposeful but surely negligent response to the
devastation throughout the southeast wrought by Hurricane Helene is more
proof of their utter failure to do right by Americans.
While
the empty-headed newsreaders on the Sunday news shows claim that any
tales of FEMA not being present and providing needed help are untrue,
the folks on the ground tell of FEMA confiscating donations, of
threatening to arrest citizens offering help, etc., their stories are clearly and sadly true.
These
victims who have lost everything are being helped by civilian
volunteers for water, food and escape, not FEMA. The Biden/Harris
administration is slow-walking badly needed help to those victims who
have lost everything. Kamala offered them a measly $750 while sending
$157 million to Lebanon for food, water, and shelter. She is on record
saying that disaster relief should be based on equity. KJP failed miserably to explain this away.
What’s
wrong with this picture? Everything. Absolutely everything. We have a
government that cares nothing for its own citizens but reveres illegal
migrants and the citizens of other nations. We have an administration
that lies constantly to make itself look good and at the same time do as
much damage to the Trump campaign as possible.
In her 60 Minutes interview,
for which she almost certainly had the questions ahead of time, Kamala
Harris lied over and over and over again, especially about her border
policy. The day Biden/Harris took office, they opened the border to all
comers without vetting. Hundreds of thousands of them have been
unaccompanied children, over 300,000 of whom have gone missing, sold off
to traffickers and/or NGOs who place them who-knows-where.
Now Harris says the border has been “tightened.”
Maybe, because they are now flying them directly from foreign countries
to the cities throughout the nation. They are skipping over the border
but still accommodating them in huge numbers. The same goes for the
fentanyl that has poured into the country on their watch. They’ve not
only let it happen, they’ve allowed it, encouraged it. Any
protestations to the contrary are … lies. So, again, massive chaos
reigns.
Meanwhile, rumor has it Kamala travels the country
for rallies but has to bring busses full of thousands of paid
“supporters” with her. She cannot bring out the crowds Trump does, so
it's not even close.
Bottom line? The Democrats rely on lies. The Harris/Walz campaign relies on lies. And what do we have? Total, disastrous, murderous chaos. Chaos is what the left thrives on – it’s the basis of the Cloward-Piven strategy. They’ve been trying to implement it for decades.
Thanks
to this administration, our nation is fast becoming totalitarian,
controlled by the censorship the Democrats hope to further implement.
Here is Hillary the other day:
“But
we now know that … if the platforms, whether it’s Facebook or Twitter/X
or Instagram or TikTok, whatever they are, if they don’t moderate and
monitor the content, we (Democrats) lose total control,” but “Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.”
Orwell.
The Harris/Walz ticket must be defeated if America is to prevail.
Chairman, esteemed members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, ladies and gentlemen. The
transition from years of confinement in a maximum-security prison to
standing here before the representatives of 46 nations and 700 million
people is a profound and surreal shift. The
experience of isolation for years in a small cell is difficult to
convey; it strips away one’s sense of self, leaving only the raw essence
of existence. I am not yet fully
equipped to speak about what I have endured – the relentless struggle to
stay alive, both physically and mentally, nor can i speak yet about the
deaths by hanging, murder, and medical neglect of my fellow prisoners. I apologise in advance if my words falter or if my presentation lacks the polish you might expect in such a distinguished forum. Isolation has taken its toll, which I am trying to unwind, and expressing myself in this setting is a challenge. However,
the gravity of this occasion and the weight of the issues at hand
compel me to set aside my reservations and speak to you directly. I have
traveled a long way, literally and figuratively, to be before you
today. Before our discussion or
answering any questions you might have, I wish to thank PACE for its
2020 resolution (2317), [https://pace.coe.int/en/files/28508/html],
which stated that my imprisonment set a dangerous precedent for
journalists and noted that the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture called
for my release. I’m also grateful for
PACE’s 2021 statement
[https://pace.coe.int/en/news/8446/pace-general-rapporteur-expresses-se]
expressing concern over credible reports that US officials discussed my
assassination, again calling for my prompt release. And
I commend the Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee for
commissioning a renowned rapporteur, Sunna Ævarsdóttir, to investigate
the circumstances surrounding my detention and conviction and the
consequent implications for human rights. However,
like so many of the efforts made in my case – whether they were from
parliamentarians, presidents, prime ministers, the Pope, UN officials
and diplomats, unions, legal and medical professionals, academics,
activists, or citizens – none of them should have been necessary. None
of the statements, resolutions, reports, films, articles, events,
fundraisers, protests, and letters over the last 14 years should have
been necessary. But all of them were necessary because without them I
never would have seen the light of day. This
unprecedented global effort was needed because of the legal protections
that did exist, many existed only on paper or were not effective in any
remotely reasonable time frame. I
eventually chose freedom over unrealisable justice, after being detained
for years and facing a 175 year sentence with no effective remedy.
Justice for me is now precluded, as the US government insisted in
writing into its plea agreement that I cannot file a case at the
European Court of Human Rights or even a freedom of information act
request over what it did to me as a result of its extradition request. I
want to be totally clear. I am not free today because the system
worked. I am free today because after years of incarceration because I
plead guilty to journalism. I plead guilty to seeking
information from a source. I plead guilty to obtaining information from a
source. And I plead guilty to informing the public what that
information was. I did not plead guilty to anything else. I hope my
testimony today can serve to highlight the weaknesses of the existing
safeguards and to help those whose cases are less visible but who are
equally vulnerable. As I
emerge from the dungeon of Belmarsh, the truth now seems less
discernible, and I regret how much ground has been lost during that time
period when expressing the truth has been undermined, attacked,
weakened, and diminished. I see more
impunity, more secrecy, more retaliation for telling the truth and more
self censorship. It is hard not to draw a line from the US government’s
prosecution of me – its crossing the rubicon by internationally
criminalising journalism – to the chilled climate for freedom of
expression now. When I
founded WikiLeaks, it was driven by a simple dream: to educate people
about how the world works so that, through understanding, we might bring
about something better. Having a map of where we are lets us understand where we might go. Knowledge empowers us to hold power to account and to demand justice where there is none. We
obtained and published truths about tens of thousands of hidden
casualties of war and other unseen horrors, about programs of
assassination, rendition, torture, and mass surveillance. We
revealed not just when and where these things happened but frequently
the policies, the agreements, and structures behind them. When
we published Collateral Murder, the infamous gun camera footage of a US
Apache helicopter crew eagerly blowing to pieces Iraqi journalists and
their rescuers, the visual reality of modern warfare shocked the world. But
we also used interest in this video to direct people to the classified
policies for when the US military could deploy lethal force in Iraq and
how many civilians could be killed before gaining higher approval. In fact, 40 years of my potential 175-year sentence was for obtaining and releasing these policies. The
practical political vision I was left with after being immersed in the
world’s dirty wars and secret operations is simple: Let us stop gagging,
torturing, and killing each other for a change. Get these fundamentals
right and other political, economic, and scientific processes will have
space to take care of the rest. WikiLeaks’ work was deeply rooted in the principles that this Assembly stands for. Journalism that elevated freedom of information and the public’s right to know found its natural operational home in Europe. I
lived in Paris and we had formal corporate registrations in France and
in Iceland. Our journalistic and technical staff were spread throughout
Europe. We published to the world from servers in based in France,
Germany, and Norway. But 14 years ago
the United States military arrested one of our alleged whistleblowers,
PFC Manning, a US intelligence analyst based in Iraq. The US government concurrently launched an investigation against me and my colleagues. The
US government illicitly sent planes of agents to Iceland, paid bribes
to an informer to steal our legal and journalistic work product, and
without formal process pressured banks and financial services to block
our subscriptions and freeze our accounts. The
UK government took part in some of this retribution. It admitted at the
European Court of Human Rights that it had unlawfully spied on my UK
lawyers during this time. Ultimately
this harassment was legally groundless. President Obama’s Justice
Department chose not to indict me, recognizing that no crime had been
committed. The United States had never
before prosecuted a publisher for publishing or obtaining government
information. To do so would require a radical and ominous
reinterpretation of the US Constitution. In January 2017, Obama also commuted the sentence of Manning, who had been convicted of being one of my sources. However,
in February 2017, the landscape changed dramatically. President Trump
had been elected. He appointed two wolves in MAGA hats: Mike Pompeo, a
Kansas congressman and former arms industry executive, as CIA Director,
and William Barr, a former CIA officer, as US Attorney General. By
March 2017, WikiLeaks had exposed the CIA’s infiltration of French
political parties, its spying on French and German leaders, its spying
on the European Central Bank, European economics ministries, and its
standing orders to spy on French industry as a whole. We
revealed the CIA’s vast production of malware and viruses, its
subversion of supply chains, its subversion of antivirus software, cars,
smart TVs and iPhones. CIA Director Pompeo launched a campaign of retribution. It
is now a matter of public record that under Pompeo’s explicit
direction, the CIA drew up plans to kidnap and to assassinate me within
the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and authorized going after my European
colleagues, subjecting us to theft, hacking attacks, and the planting of
false information. My wife and my
infant son were also targeted. A CIA asset was permanently assigned to
track my wife and instructions were given to obtain DNA from my six
month old son’s nappy. This is the
testimony of more than 30 current and former US intelligence officials
speaking to the US press, which has been additionally corroborated by
records seized in a prosecution brought against some of the CIA agents
involved. The CIA’s targeting of
myself, my family and my associates through aggressive extrajudicial and
extraterritorial means provides a rare insight into how powerful
intelligence organisations engage in transnational repression. Such
repressions are not unique. What is unique is that we know so much about
this one due to numerous whistleblowers and to judicial investigations
in Spain. This Assembly is no stranger to extraterritorial abuses by the CIA. PACE’s
groundbreaking report on CIA renditions in Europe exposed how the CIA
operated secret detention centres and conducted unlawful renditions on
European soil, violating human rights and international law. In
February this year, the alleged source of some of our CIA revelations,
former CIA officer Joshua Schulte, was sentenced to forty years in
prison under conditions of extreme isolation. His
windows are blacked out, and a white noise machine plays 24 hours a day
over his door so that he cannot even shout through it. These conditions are more severe than those found in Guantanamo Bay. Transnational repression is also conducted by abusing legal processes. The
lack of effective safeguards against this means that Europe is
vulnerable to having its mutual legal assistance and extradition
treaties hijacked by foreign powers to go after dissenting voices in
Europe. In Mike Pompeo’s memoirs,
which I read in my prison cell, the former CIA Director bragged about
how he pressured the US Attorney General to bring an extradition case
against me in response to our publications about the CIA. Indeed,
acceding to Pompeo’s efforts, the US Attorney General reopened the
investigation against me that Obama had closed and re-arrested Manning,
this time as a witness. Manning was
held in prison for over a year and fined a thousand dollars a day in a
formal attempt to coerce her into providing secret testimony against me. She ended up attempting to take her own life. We
usually think of attempts to force journalists to testify against their
sources. But Manning was now a source being forced to testify against
their journalist. By December 2017, CIA Director Pompeo had got his way, and the US government issued a warrant to the UK for my extradition. The
UK government kept the warrant secret from the public for two more
years, while it, the US government, and the new president of Ecuador
moved to shape the political, legal, and diplomatic grounds for my
arrest. When powerful nations feel
entitled to target individuals beyond their borders, those individuals
do not stand a chance unless there are strong safeguards in place and a
state willing to enforce them. Without them no individual has a hope of
defending themselves against the vast resources that a state aggressor
can deploy. If the situation were not
already bad enough in my case, the US government asserted a dangerous
new global legal position. Only US citizens have free speech rights.
Europeans and other nationalities do not have free speech rights. But
the US claims its Espionage Act still applies to them regardless of
where they are. So Europeans in Europe must obey US secrecy law with no
defences at all as far as the US government is concerned. An American in
Paris can talk about what the US government is up to – perhaps. But for
a Frenchman in Paris, to do so is a crime without any defence and he
may be extradited just like me. Now
that one foreign government has formally asserted that Europeans have no
free speech rights, a dangerous precedent has been set. Other powerful
states will inevitably follow suit. The
war in Ukraine has already seen the criminalisation of journalists in
Russia, but based on the precedent set in my extradition, there is
nothing to stop Russia, or indeed any other state, from targeting
European journalists, publishers, or even social media users, by
claiming that their secrecy laws have been violated. The
rights of journalists and publishers within the European space are
seriously threatened. Transnational repression cannot become the norm
here. As one of the world’s two great
norm-setting institutions, PACE must act. The criminalisation of
newsgathering activities is a threat to investigative journalism
everywhere. I was formally convicted,
by a foreign power, for asking for, receiving, and publishing truthful
information about that power while I was in Europe. The fundamental issue is simple: Journalists should not be prosecuted for doing their jobs. Journalism is not a crime; it is a pillar of a free and informed society. Mr
Chairman, distinguished delegates, if Europe is to have a future where
the freedom to speak and the freedom to publish the truth are not
privileges enjoyed by a few but rights guaranteed to all then it must
act so that what has happened in my case never happens to anyone else.
I
wish to express my deepest gratitude to this assembly, to the
conservatives, social democrats, liberals, leftists, greens, and
independents – who have supported me throughout this ordeal and to the
countless individuals who have advocated tirelessly for my release. It
is heartening to know that in a world often divided by ideology and
interests, there remains a shared commitment to the protection of
essential human liberties. Freedom of
expression and all that flows from it is at a dark crossroads. I fear
that unless norm setting institutions like PACE wake up to the gravity
of the situation it will be too late. Let
us all commit to doing our part to ensure that the light of freedom
never dims, that the pursuit of truth will live on, and that the voices
of the many are not silenced by the interests of the few.”
Comments by PCR:
Over
the many years of Julian Assange’s ordeal at the hands of the Swedish,
British, and US governments, I exposed to the extent of the information I
had the falseness of every accusation against Assange. These false
concocted accusations and attacks ranged from lies that he raped two
Swedish women, to the revocation of his asylum and Ecuadoran citizenship
by a corrupt Ecuadoran successor president in exchange for a large US
loan, to the denial by British “justice” of habeas corpus protection to
Assange and, in my opinion and that of many others, of British “justice”
attempting to kill Assange by keeping him for years in solitary
confinement despite the absence of charges and conviction, to the CIA’s
use of two corrupt Trump appointees–Pompeno and Barr–to indict Assange
for the crime of being a journalist.
After reading Assange’s
address I realized that all of this was just the tip of the iceberg.
What the United States government did to Assange is worse than can be
found in any dystopian novel.
Read Assange’s speech, and then ask
yourself how you can possibly believe you are a free person living in a
free democratic country with accountable government where there is
justice, mercy, integrity, morality, and the rule of law.
Also
notice that it was the Obama Justice Department that dropped all
attempts to indict Assange as there are no legal grounds for his
indictment, and that it was the Trump Justice Department that reopened
the case under CIA pressure. If memory serves, the whores who comprise
Western journalism came out against Assange, that is, the dumbshits came
out against their own profession, and conservative pundits accused
Assange of being a Russian spy. Get the traitor, get the traitor,
screamed the presstitutes and conservative pundits.
It was
pressure from the Council of Europe and funding of Assange’s lawyers by
donations from individuals that caused the CIA to settle for Assange’s
plea that he was “guilty of practicing journalism.” We might laugh, but
what the CIA has accomplished is a possible precedent for the
criminalization of truthful, objective journalism, and its replacement
with enforcement of official narratives. Assange himself says he “pled
guilty to being a journalist.” The guilty plea implies that journalism
is a crime.
How many people will be bothered to understand
Assange’s treatment by the “great free democracy, the light of the
world”? Hardly any, just as hardly any understand that Washington has
provoked Russia to the point of nuclear war, and a majority of
Americans, it seems, support Israel’s relentless slaughter of
Palestinians redefined by Israel as “Muslim terrorists.”
Suppose
people were able to free themselves from insouciance and gain access to
truth and understanding, what can they do without political leaders?
Where
are their leaders? I can only think of two who have recognizable names:
Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen. How have the ruling establishments
reacted to these two representatives of the people? Trump has been
served by the “freedom and democracy” US government with four criminal
indictments for which he is on trial. Le Pen is on trial for
representing French ethnicity. The official charge is embezzlement of
funds, but her defense of a French ethnic nation makes her a racist
under the ruling DEI ideology, and that is the real charge against her.
How
good are these two leaders? Le Pen must be pretty good. She has stood
the heat for many years, and the party has grown. Possibly it is the
largest of the French political parties, but the Establishment has been
successful keeping it out of office. It seems Le Pen is on trial on an
annual basis.
Trump is a neophyte, He defeated himself in his
first term by stupidly surrounding himself with the representatives of
the ruling establishment that he thought he was going to overthrow.
Instead they overthrew him.
Trump claims he has learned Washington
since appointing Gestapo operatives such as Pompano and Barr and
refusing to defend General Flynn, his only sensible appointment. But
what has he learned? Did he learn that the Establishment is more
powerful than the President and that second time around he had best get
along with the Establishment?
Leaders are rare. Even if one
appears, he cannot count on the people’s support. Cicero, Quaestor,
Procounsel, and Counsel of Rome, tried to rally the Roman people from
their self-destruction and paid for it with his life.
Trump tried to give power back to the American people and was punished for it with four criminal indictments.
Le Pen tries to represent French ethnicity and is constantly legally harassed.
When
the people themselves lose interest in their rights and cannot bring
themselves to fight to regain them, they lose their freedom.
In
the United States today, and I think throughout the Western world, law
has been weaponized against all who openly dissent from the Ruling
Establishment’s narratives and agendas. As law is now a weapon in the
hands of the state, why would Democrats, whose hand is on this weapon,
permit an election to take it away from them?
A sinking ship cannot change its course.
If
the Democrats steal a third national election, and the American people
again accept it, there will not be another election. Americans will have
crossed the Rubicon into tyranny. Older Americans will be slow to
realize it, and new generations, having been born into tyranny will not
know what has been lost, having never experienced freedom. This is the
way liberty dies.
The Democrats Are Doing Every Possible Thing to Enable Immigrant-invaders to vote.
Democrats
are passing laws to make sure that a non-citizen who just walked across
the border has a vote equal to a United States native-born citizen.
Immigrant-invaders are given federal IDs which entitle them to drivers’
licenses. Many jurisdictions automatically enroll driver license
recipients on the voting list.
The
Democrats call it Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. DEI is not for us
racist white supremacy citizens, the American majority. It is for the
immigrant-invaders who just walked across the border. The Democrats are
the party of the immigrant-invaders, and tens of millions of dumbshit
white Americans will vote for the party of immigrant-invaders.
It is even worse than that. The
Biden/Kamala Regime are using our taxpayers dollars to finance NGOs to
recruit from 150 countries immigrant invaders and to provide them with
transportation, to Latin America and with food, water, medical care, and
sleeping quarters as they march to our border. When Washington’s
recruits of immigrant-invaders reach the border, federal and local
authorities are required to let them in.
Nothing
is being done about it. The Republican House and Senate Democrats have
not cut off the funding that is flooding America with crime and people
unable to support themselves. How do uneducated people who do not speak
the language become a work force? How do tens of millions of people who
do not speak the language and do not have a first world education become
a work force in a first world country?
Why is this
happening? Why is discussion of the dissolution of the United States
into a Tower of Babel blocked by the media and authorities with police
power to silence.
Why does the Democrat Party describe native-born
Americans who are opposed to their country being overrun by
immigrant-invaders as white supremacists, while Democrats focus on
saving Ukraine’s borders? Why are Ukraine’s borders more important than
America’s?
Holy shlit. Democrat delegate to the US House of Representatives accidentally says the quiet part out loud.
She admits the DOJ and FBI are weaponized to go after people with opposing views.
The DOJ and FBI "serve as a check against white nationalism, great replacement… pic.twitter.com/KRIVtAwCkM
Is there a Democrat anywhere who cares about America’s borders? Apparently not.
Is there any politician, other than Donald Trump, who speaks for Americans?
Yesterday
the Democrats in Minneopolis made a non-citizen a police officer. So
now the Democrats have made it possible for a non-citizen to arrest an
American citizen. The Democrats call this “inclusion.” Do you look
forward to being arrested by a non-citizen? This is your consequence for
being so totally stupid that you voted Democrat. The dumbshit American
voters have destroyed themselves and all of their prospects.
The
Democrats have established a regime in which American citizens have lost
their Constitutional protections and are considered to be evil racists
and enemies of democracy who must be replaced by third world
immigrant-invaders. This is happening before our eyes. If it hasn’t
happened to your community yet, it won’t be long.
It is the same
throughout the Western world. The European Council on Foreign Relations
published a report a few days ago on September 25 by Pawel Zerka,
obviously not a Western European name. The report published by the
European Council concluded that Europe is too white and too European. So
here we have Europeans turning Europe’s fate over to someone who
intends to bring upon them the Camp of the Saints. Perhaps people this
stupid deserve their destruction.
To underline the point, Marine
Le Pen, the leader of the largest French political party that is kept
out of political office by conspiracy of the ruling elite, has been
placed on trial. The false charges are that she and her party embezzled
EU funds. This is such a nonsensical charge as to be mind blowing. The
EU is not going to give any funds to a French NATIONALIST political
party. And even if it mysteriously happened, Le Pen is not sufficiently
stupid, having target written all over her, to embezzle them.
But
in the Western world today truth is of zero consequence. Law is nothing
else but a weapon to destroy those in the way of the Woke Agenda.
White people are history. They have placed their fate in the hands of their enemies. Perhaps a few will be kept in zoos.
So what do all of us at “Rescue the Republic” have in common? Nothing!
In a pre-Trump universe chimpanzees would be typing their fourth copy of Hamlet before
RFK Jr., Robert Malone, Zuby, Tulsi Gabbard, Russell, Bret Weinstein
and I would organically get together for any reason, much less an event
like this.
True, everyone speaking has been censored. The
issues were all different, but everyone disagreed with “authoritative
voices” about something.
Saying no is very American. From “Don’t Tread on Me!” to “Nuts” to “You Cannot Be Serious!” defiance is in our DNA.
Now disagreement is seen as threat, and according
to John Kerry, must be “hammered out of existence.” The former
Presidential candidate just complained at a World Economic Forum meeting
that “it’s really hard to govern” and “our First Amendment stands as a
major block” to the important work of hammering out unhealthy choices.
In the open he said this! I was telling Tim Pool about this backstage and he asked, “Was black ooze coming out of his mouth?”
Kerry
added that it’s “really hard to build consensus,” and told Forum
members they need to “win the right to govern” and “be free to implement
change.”
What do they need to be free of? The First Amendment, yes, but more importantly: us. Complainers. That’s our shared experience. We are obstacles to consensus.
My
name is Matt Taibbi. I’ve been a reporter for 35 years, covering
everything from Pentagon accounting to securities fraud to drone
warfare. My son a few years ago asked what I do. I said, “Daddy writes
about things that are so horrible they’re interesting.”
Two years
ago, I was invited by Elon Musk to look at internal correspondence at
Twitter. This led to stories called the Twitter Files whose main
revelation was a broad government effort to suppress speech.
I
was invited to talk about risks to the First Amendment, but to spare
the suspense: that battle is lost. State censorship is a fact in most of
the West. In February
our European allies began observing the Digital Services Act, which
requires Internet platforms to enforce judgments of state-appointed
content reviewers called “trusted flaggers.”
Everything
we found in the Twitter Files fits in a sentence: an alphabet soup of
enforcement agencies informally is already doing pretty much the same
thing as Europe’s draconian new law.
Now, is it against the law
when a White House official calls Facebook and asks to ban a journalist
for writing that the Covid vaccine “doesn’t stop infection or
transmission”? I think hell yes. It certainly violates the spirit of the
First Amendment, even if judges are found to say it keeps to the
letter.
But this is post-9/11 America. Whether about surveillance
or torture or habeas corpus or secret prisons or rendition or any of a
dozen other things, WE IGNORE LAWS. Institutional impunity is the chief
characteristic of our current form of government.
We have
concepts like “illegal but necessary”: the government may torture, the
public obviously can’t. The state may intercept phone calls, you can’t.
The state may search without warrants, assassinate, snatch geolocations
from your phones, any of a hundred things officially prohibited, but
allowed. This concept requires that officials have special permission to
ignore laws.
Ten years ago, we
were caught spying on three different French presidents as well as
companies like BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole, Peugeot, Renault, and
Total. Barack Obama called the French to apologize, but did we stop? We
did indict the person who released the news, Julian Assange.
Congratulations to Julian on getting out, by the way. And shame on every journalist who did not call for his release.
WE
IGNORE LAWS. It’s what America does. With this in mind, our government
has moved past censorship to the larger project of changing the American
personality. They want a more obedient, timorous, fearful citizen.
Their tool is the Internet, a vast machine for doling out reward and
punishment through likes and views, shaming or deamplification. The
mechanics are complicated but the core concept is simple: you’re
upranked for accepting authority, downranked for questioning it, with
questions of any kind increasingly viewed as a form of disinformation.
Let
me pause to say something about America’s current intellectual class,
from which the “anti-disinformation” complex comes. By the way: there
are no working-class censors, poor censors, hungry censors. The dirty
secret of “content moderation” everywhere is that it’s a tiny sliver of
the educated rich correcting everyone else. It’s telling people what
fork to use, but you can get a degree in it.
America has the most
useless aristocrats in history. Even the French dandies marched to the
razor by the Jacobins were towering specimens of humanity compared to
the Michael Haydens, John Brennans, James Clappers, Mike McFauls and
Rick Stengels who make up America’s self-appointed behavior police.
In
prerevolutionary France even the most drunken, depraved, debauched
libertine had to be prepared to back up an insolent act with a sword
duel to the death. Our aristocrats pee themselves at the sight of mean
tweets. They have no honor, no belief, no poetry, art, or humor, no
patriotism, no loyalty, no dreams, and no accomplishments. They’re
simultaneously illiterate and pretentious, which is very hard to pull off.
They
have one idea, not even an idea but a sensation: fear. Rightly so,
because they snitch each other out at the drop of a hat; they’re afraid
of each other, but they’re also terrified of everyone outside their
social set and live in near-constant fear of being caught having an
original opinion. They believe in the manner of herd animals, who also
live whole lives without knowing an anxiety-free minute: they believe
things with blinding zeal until 51% change their minds, and then like
deer the rest bolt in that direction. We saw that with the Biden is sharp as a tack/No, Biden must step aside for the Politics of Joy switch.
I
grew up a liberal Democrat and can’t remember having even most of the
same beliefs as my friends. Now, millions of alleged intellectuals claim
identical beliefs about vast ranges of issues and this ludicrous mass
delusion is the precondition for “disinformation studies,” really the
highly unscientific science of punishing deviation from the uniform
belief set — what another excommunicated liberal, my friend Thomas
Frank, calls the “Utopia of Scolding.”
“Freedom of speech” is a
beautiful phrase, strong, optimistic. It has a ring to it. But it’s
being replaced in the discourse by “disinformation” and
“misinformation,” words that aren’t beautiful but full of the small,
pettifogging, bureaucratic anxiety of a familiar American villain: the
busybody, the prohibitionist, the Nosey Parker, the snoop.
H.L.
Mencken defined Puritanism as the “haunting fear that someone, somewhere
is happy.” That streak of our early European settlers unfortunately
survives in us and keeps surfacing through moral panics. Four hundred
years ago it was witches, then it was Catholic immigrants, then “the
devil’s music,” comic books, booze, communists, and now, information.
Because
“freedom of speech” is now frequently described as a stalking horse for
hate and discrimination — the UN High Commissioner Volker Türk scolded
Elon Musk that “free speech is not a free pass” — it’s becoming one of
those soon-to-be-extinct terms. Speech is mentioned in “reputable” media
only as a possible vector for the informational disease known as
misinformation. Soon all that will remain of the issue for most people
is a flutter of the nerves, reminding them to avoid thinking about it.
The
end game is not controlling speech. They’re already doing that. The
endgame is getting us to forget we ever had anything to say.
To
small thinkers free speech is a wilderness of potential threats. The
people who built this country, whatever else you can say about them,
weren’t small thinkers. They were big, big thinkers, and I mean that not
just in terms of intellect but arrogance, gall, brass, audacity, cheek.
Kurt Vonnegut called the Founding Fathers Sea Pirates. He wasn’t far off. These people stole a continent from the King of England. And got away with it. Eminem said there ain’t no such thing as halfway crooks — there was nothing halfway about the Constitution authors.
James
Madison, who wrote the First Amendment, foresaw the exact situation of a
government that IGNORES LAWS. In fact, he was originally opposed to the
Bill of Rights because he didn’t think “paper guarantees” could stop a
corrupt government. So he put together a document designed to inspire a
personality type that would resist efforts to undo the experiment.
Here
an important quality came into play: Madison was a great writer. The 44
words of his First Amendment were composed with extraordinary subtlety:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
The
First Amendment didn’t confer rights or entrust government with
guaranteeing them. Instead, the Founders stood to the side and, like an
old country recognizing a new country, simply acknowledged an eternal
truth: the freedom of the human mind.
This is what censors never understand. Speech is
free. Trying to stop it is like catching butterflies with a hammer,
stopping a flood with a teaspoon… Choose your metaphor, but a fool’s
errand. You can apply as many rules as you want, threaten punishment,
lock people up. The human mind always sets its own course, often in
spite of itself. As the poet William Ernest Henley explained:
It matters not how straight the gate,
How charged with punishment the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
Unlike
the busybodies of the Internet Age, to whom words are just another
overproduced, over-plentiful, unnecessary, and vaguely hazardous
commodity like greenhouse gases or plastic soda bottles, people like
Madison understood the value of language.
In 1787 you might have
to walk a mile or five just to see a printed word. It was likely to be
the Bible. I’m not religious, but I’ve read the Bible, and so of course
did they. They knew the Gospel of John: “In the beginning was the word,
and the word was with God, and the word was God.”
That was a
reference to Genesis: In the beginning, God said “Let there be light,”
and the world was born. For them, the idea of the word was suffused with
the power of creation itself. This wasn’t law. This was metaphysics. It
was cosmogony.
A little country run by a bunch of jumped-up
tobacconists and corn farmers needed an ally to withstand the wrath of
European royalty. They got it by lighting a match under human ingenuity
and creativity and passion. It was rash, risky, reckless, and it worked.
What
was the American personality? Madison said he hoped to strengthen the
“will of the community,” but other revolutionaries weren’t quite so
polite. Thomas Paine's central message was that the humblest farmer was a
towering moral giant compared to the invertebrate scum who wore crowns
and lived in British castles.
Common Sense told us
to stand up straight. Never bow, especially not to a politician, because
as Paine explained — I want you to think of John Kerry and Hayden and
Cheney here — “Men who look upon themselves as born to reign, and others
to obey… are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.”
Oscar
Wilde noted ours was the only country in the world where being a kook
was respectable. Every other country shunned the tinkerer or mad
inventor and cheerfully donated them to us, turbocharging our American
experiment.
We welcomed crazy and the world has light bulbs, the
telephone, movies, airplanes, submarines, the Internet, false teeth, the
Colt .45, rock and roll, hip-hop and monster dunks as a result. Wilde
lampooned our ignorance and lack of artistic sophistication and
tolerance for ugly words — hilariously he refused to speak at a town
that named itself “Grigsville” — but his final observation was a supreme
compliment:
The Americans are the best
politically educated people in the world. It is well worth one’s while
to go to a country which can teach us the beauty of the word FREEDOM and
the value of the thing LIBERTY.
In
my twenties, while traveling through the former Soviet Union, I noticed
that people from other cultures often had hang-ups about authority. Men
from autocratic countries in the Middle East always seemed to whisper
out of the corners of their mouths, as if they were afraid someone might
hear, even about meaningless things. They would say: “Listen, my
friend, the only good song George Michael ever wrote was ‘Faith…’”
Why are we whispering? I’d ask. I don’t know, they’d say.
People
who grew up in places with the Queen on their money were
class-conscious and calibrated what they could say according to who else
was at the table. Russians were like us, expressive and free-spirited
and funny, but infected with terrible fatalism: they froze around badges
and insignias and other symbols of authority as if they had magic
power.
Over time I realized: I liked being an American. For the
first time I was seeing the American experience through the eyes of
foreigners. I did an interview once at a restaurant in Moscow called
Scandanavia. A group of European diplomats was having a conference and
complained about a table of loud American businessmen. A young Swedish
waiter was sent to deal with them.
He leaned over to the biggest and loudest of these finance bros and said, “If you could keep your voice down, sir…”
The American turned and said:
“Is that a question?”
The kid froze. The American said: “You mean ‘Be quiet,’ right?”
“Yes.”
The
American got up. “Look, you’re over here because a bunch of Belgians
are too afraid to come over here themselves. You’re carrying that like
the weight of the world. I can see it your shoulders. Let it go, man.”
Now those diplomats grew spines. “Hey,” they said. “We are not Belgians. We’re—”
“You’re
Belgians,” the American snapped. Then he gave the floor to the kid who
said, “Please be quiet.” The American took out a $100 bill and stuck it
in the kid’s vest pocket. He walked around the rest of the night like he
owned the place. He might have gone on to do just that.
Incidentally propaganda is the same trick I saw in that restaurant. It’s always someone trying to make you feel bad for their weakness, their mistakes. Don’t be ground down by it. Stand up straight and give it back.
Which
is why I say: Kerry, Hayden, Cheney, Adam Schiff, Craig Newmark, Reid
Hoffman, Pierre Omidyar, Leon Panetta, and especially that Time editor turned self-appointed censor Rick Stengel should be packed in a rocket and launched into the fucking sun.
Let's be clear about our language. Madison famously eschewed the word toleration or tolerance
when it came to religion and insisted on the words freedom or liberty
instead. This became the basis for the Virginia Declaration of Rights,
which in turn became the basis for the Bill of Rights. That's why we
don't have “toleration of religion” or “toleration of speech.” We have freedom of speech. The right word for the right time.
To
the people who are suggesting that there are voices who should be
ignored because they're encouraging mistrust or skepticism of authority,
or obstructing consensus: I'm not encouraging you to be skeptical of
authority. I'm encouraging you to DEFY authority. That is the right word
for this time.
To all those Snoops and Nosey Parkers sitting in
their Homeland Security-funded “Centers of Excellence,” telling us day
after day we must think as they say and vote as they say or else we’re
traitorous Putin-loving fascists and enablers of “dangerous”
disinformation:
Motherfucker, I’m an American. That shit does not
work on me. And how can you impugn my patriotism, when you’re sitting in
Klaus Schwab’s lap, apologizing for the First Amendment to a crowd of
Europeans? Look in the mirror.
