Posted on 07/05/2023 7:48:26 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a threat to your health — and our democracy,” reads the headline of a recent Los Angeles Times column.
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Using the phrase “threat to democracy” as a way of protecting Democrats ahead of a presidential election is a media tradition at this point. Recall how the press promulgated the FBI-contrived Russia-collusion hoax, claiming former President Donald Trump was a “threat to democracy” in order to interfere in the 2016 election and discredit the Trump presidency after he was elected. Today, the media is still trying to thwart a Trump presidency by praising Biden for prosecuting his most probable 2024 opponent in, of course, the name of “democracy.”
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For the propaganda press, “democracy” no longer means a form of government. It means the suppression of anything that threatens the left’s agenda or their candidates. Just a few examples of what the media considered a “threat to democracy” include Trump, half of the U.S. population, Ron DeSantis, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, lawfully conducted elections, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, poll watchers, Elon Musk, parents at school board meetings, pro-lifers, our bicameral legislature, free speech, and democracy itself.
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We have met the enemy, and he/she is a talking head on TV and/or a writer in a propaganda news organization.
I saw Evita Duffy on Newsmax a few weeks ago. She is the daughter of Rachel and Sean Duffy.
Klaus Schwab said his World Enslavement Forum pays the media to keep them under their control
I have no problem with threats to our democracy. Bring it on. Maybe we can replace our democracy with a republic.
Mr. Niteowl77’s Rule of the Thirds:
One third of the population will do the right thing; one third of the population will do the wrong thing; the remaining third will do whatever the more convincing (or coercing) of the two other thirds tells them to do.
The larger the bureaucracy, the less thought it gives to destroying your life or your family.
posted on 7/5/2023, 5:46:49 AM by MMusson
Shreveport, Louisiana, had the most explosive fireworks on Independence Day when Judge Terry A. Doughty blew up the federal government’s censorship of conservatives on social media. Trump appointed him in 2018 and Doughty is now the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, based in Shreveport.
The attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri sued to stop federal agents from coercing social media to censor conservatives or anyone else who dared criticize our government.
The deep state cited an extra-constitutional power to fight misinformation and disinformation but the biggest spreaders of lies are the FBI, CIA and the rest of the federal government.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4165645/posts
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In rare Independence Day ruling, federal judge forbids federal agencies from contacting social media sites to censor posts
American Thinker ^ | 5 Jul, 2023 | Thomas Lifson
Posted on 7/5/2023, 4:27:45 AM by MtnClimber
This is a huge victory for free speech, though it must be kept in mind that the injunction issued by US District Court Judge Terry A. Doughty is a preliminary injunction that almost certainly will be appealed and will take a long time to be finally decided, perhaps by the Supreme Court eventually. I expect there will be fierce attacks on the ruling, and on Judge Doughty, who is a Trump appointee (thank-you, Mitch McConnell). Judge Doughty’s nomination was confirmed by a vote of 98 – 0 on March 1, 2018.
The ruling by Judge Doughty is 135 pages long, and will take more time to analyze thoroughly, but as a first take, the following excerpts (impressive to me) are worth bearing in mind. (Footnotes are omitted)
INTRODUCTION (pp. 2-3)
I may disapprove of what you say, but I would defend to the death your right to say it.
Evelyn Beatrice Hill, 1906, The Friends of Voltaire
This case is about the Free Speech Clause in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The explosion of social-media platforms has resulted in unique free speech issues— this is especially true in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. If the allegations made by Plaintiffs are true, the present case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history. In their attempts to suppress alleged disinformation, the Federal Government, and particularly the Defendants named here, are alleged to have blatantly ignored the First Amendment’s right to free speech.
Although the censorship alleged in this case almost exclusively targeted conservative speech, the issues raised herein go beyond party lines. The right to free speech is not a member of any political party and does not hold any political ideology.
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"Our democracy"™: Anything that challenges or threatens the Uniparty and Deep State.
Similar terms: dar al-salam
I don’t think these people really speak of “threats to democracy”.
The actual phrase is almost always “threats to OUR democracy”. Because this is an Oligarchy run by a select group of powerful people who control everything. It is THEIR system of government which is threatened by We The People.
Looks like her Mama.
I’m more worried about liberty than democracy.
I live every day, but I only vote about two days every two years.
“ I have no problem with threats to our democracy. Bring it on. Maybe we can replace our democracy with a republic.”
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Yes, let’s destroy our democracy. Because we’re not a democracy, we are a republic. A democracy is tools and the sheep voting on Watch for dinner. We are definitively, not a democracy, and the founding fathers would be rolling over in their graves at the very thought.
Of course, the Democrats want a democracy. Because all they have to do is manipulate, voter rolls, or machines, or both, to get 50% plus one of “votes.” This is how you steal power, and the Democrats are unfortunately very good at it.
As always, whenever you hear “threat to democracy”, change the word “democracy” to “full control of the state by the DC uniparty.” When you do that, what follows makes much more sense.
The only way democracy works ..is if we have unity.
Everyone must agree!
Nothing, not even democracy, can justify slavery.
The media is hysterical about losing its influence and credibility.
“A democracy is tools and the sheep voting on Watch for dinner.”
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Should be, “A democracy is 2 wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner.”
I hate Siri.
So true.
The media’s “democracy” is the millions of the chattering class they entertain with fake news, accusations, falsehoods— the idiot people they depend on for their self assigned “ruling class” elitism- totally undeserved.
The Founders knew from long world experience— that “Democracy” fully evolved and enforces had ALWAYS degraded to pure Tyranny, dictatorial Tyranny. And that is WHY the word “democracy” does not appear in the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. They knew democratic rule would devolve to a dictatorship. They knew more than any but a few of today’s scofflaw scam artists in Congress and the Presidency.
The propaganda press is made up of shallow bimbos and stupid pretentious 'men'. That might be a factor.
“Hitler realized that he must employ legitimate democratic means in his struggle to seize power. However, he and his associates left no doubt about their belief in democratic freedoms as mere tools with which power might be attained.”
https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/about/nazi-germany-1933-39/beginning-of-persecution.html
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