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.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
"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.
I’m more worried about liberty than democracy.
I live every day, but I only vote about two days every two years.
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.
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
“During the contest of opinion through which we have passed the animation of discussions and of exertions has sometimes worn an aspect which might impose on strangers unused to think freely and to speak and to write what they think; but this being now decided by the voice of the nation, announced according to the rules of the Constitution, all will, of course, arrange themselves under the will of the law, and unite in common efforts for the common good. All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.”
“a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”
Thomas Jefferson, Inaugural Address, 1801
The Democrats are poisoning democracy by buying votes and inviting in invaders.
“I referred to the then rapidly increasing deficit, and pointed out the obligation on the part of the framers of the tariff bill to arrange the duty so as to secure an adequate income, and suggested that if it was not possible to do so by import duties, new kinds of taxation must be adopted, and among them I recommended a graduated inheritance tax as correct in principle and as certain and easy of collection. The House of Representatives has adopted the suggestion and has provided in the bill it passed for the collection of such a tax. In the Senate the action of its Finance Committee and the course of the debate indicate that it may not agree to this provision, and it is now proposed to make up the deficit by the imposition of a general income tax”
“I recommend, then, first, the adoption of a joint resolution by two-thirds of both Houses proposing to the States an amendment to the Constitution granting to the Federal Government the right to levy and collect an income tax without apportionment among the States according to population, and, second, the enactment, as part of the pending revenue measure, either as a substitute for, or in addition to, the inheritance tax, of an excise tax upon all corporations measured by 2 per cent of their net income.”
Republican President William Taft
The United States of America, is not now, nor ever has been a Democracy. We are a constitutional representative, Republic. That is far different.
“The election of 1892 produced a Democratic president (Grover Cleveland) along with Democratic control of both houses of Congress. This ended the long reign of the Republicans who had opposed restoring the income tax. In 1894, the Democrats succeeded in passing a 2-percent income tax on those earning $4,000 or more a year, less than 1 percent of the population at the time. Unlike the Civil War income tax, this one was not graduated. Everyone with an income over $4,000 paid the same 2-percent tax rate.”
“In 1909, [Tennessee Congressman Cordell] Hull worked out a deal with the Republican president, William Howard Taft. Hull and his allies promised not to stall the passage of tariff laws, while Taft came out in favor of a corporation tax and a constitutional amendment authorizing Congress to enact a federal income tax.”
“The first tax collection day under the new law took place on March 1, 1914. Since the average worker earned only about $800 a year, few people actually had to pay any federal income tax. Less than 4 percent of American families made an annual income of $3,000 or more. Deductions and exemptions further shrank the pool of taxpayers. Nevertheless, the federal government collected $71 million that first year. Millionaire John D. Rockefeller alone paid an estimated $2 million.”
“federal receipts climbed from under $1 billion in 1917 to nearly $4 billion in 1918. At war’s end, about 60 percent of federal tax money came from the income tax. It replaced tariff duties and excise taxes as the main source of revenue for the U.S. government. Tax rates were reduced after the war. But Congress had discovered how easy it was to pump enormous amounts of money into the U.S. treasury.”