If #Elmo is serious, he should address the “elefante” in the room. Namely, our $35 Trillion USD in “published” public debt. The interest that we currently pay on that block of debt is more than we are currently paying out in Social Security. So, let’s pay off the nation’s “credit card”, bring that balance down to zero, and deposit the savings into the Social Security Trust Fund in order that our future generations can “risk” capital without the fear of ending up in the “poor” house or worse … Starving to death out in the winter cold.
1/3 of the Western lands is owned by the people of the United States and the government is OUR custodian because we are the government. The lands are not for sale to whoever gave the biggest donation to the politicians.
One day Congress may take back power from our elected emperors (of both parties) and Congress alone will decide what to do with our national assets and not the Emperors on behalf of their patrons.
The only reason we were able to break through the media wall that hid the truth from people during the pandemic, was because Twitter was purchased by Musk.
Before that purchase, people were enslaved to the media's will, which was coerced directly by Joe Biden's White House.
And if you need any more proof, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey both apologized for their handling of the pandemic and censoring the American people.
Free speech is not to protect the things you want to hear. It's to protect the things you don't want to hear.
If you're not free to speak, the same free speech laws that gave women, African Americans and all other minorities freedom will also be removed, preventing you to defend yourself one day.
Do you actually know what it means to live in a totalitarian state? One where there really is a monoculture and people are literally enslaved to the will of the ruling party? No matter how bad Biden's record was on censorship with pressuring Facebook etc. (and for what it's worth, Trump's stated aims of literally imprisoning journalists and political opponents is far worse - that's the definition of an abuse of state power) there is a huge amount of pluralism in the United States - you have access to unlimited viewpoints from right and left, you can join whichever Church you want, and when the government or civil society messes up by trying to crack down on speech in troubling ways the society quickly course corrects and alternative views can fight it out. If you feel like you are being oppressed by a tyrannical system I simply don't know what to say to you, but I'd urge you to look at societies like China (especially if you are a Muslim) or Iran (especially if you are a woman) or historical examples from the 20th century. In the U.S. today how many different news articles could you read in the next hour alone if you chose to? How many political causes could you sign up to support? Basically unlimited. Would you fear going to jail? No. And imagine you were to post something on social media and it got flagged as misinformation and removed - then there are alternative platforms where that won't happen. Most importantly you won't get arrested or harassed by the government for your political views, it simply won't happen. And if it does then the courts will quickly step in. And if you get harassed or shouted down by members of the public for whatever reason (say for political reasons) and it doesn't cross the line into a police matter then that's just a byproduct of living in a free society and one we need to work to reduce but which isn't evidence of tyranny or conspiracy. And if you think that an article critical of Musk is part of a "censorship complex"—simply because it is critical of Musk—then we have very different ideas of what constitutes censorship.
Do I know what it's like to live in a totalitarian state? Yes. My family escaped one. On foot with children in arms. This is why I'm so vocal about it.
Ask ANYONE who has escaped such a place, who is just somewhat objectively educated about what is happening in the West, not just the US but across almost all Western Democratic countries, and they will tell you it's happening all over again.
The government, rather than being subservient to the populace, now knows better what the people need than the people know.
That 'plurality' that we all hold so dear is not just disappearing in the US. It's disappearing around the world, as Liberal governments in most countries are uniting to extinguish opposition, censor free speech and crush dissent by manipulating the media.
"No matter how bad Biden's record on censorship was"???
The administration CENSORED THE FREE SPEECH OF AMERICANS. He violated the 1st Amendment, suppressed truthful information and pushed untruthful information and THERE WAS NOTHING ANYONE COULD DO ABOUT IT.
It's not a "ok, but" moment.
It's an "OMFG GOD, I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS HAPPENED IN MODERN DAY AMERICA" moment.
Get real. Get some perspective. If it happened once, it will happen again. That possibility of it happening again needs to be crushed. Extinguished. Eliminated. The entire ability of Western democracy to thrive rests on this one single thing.
If they can do it for one emergency, they can do it for every emergency, and that means the same Free Speech you and I will need to defend ourselves may be eliminated one day just as it was eliminated over the pandemic.
The man who broke that censorship regime wide up, who allowed an investigation behind what happened, so that it could be exposed was the Musk, who purchased a company that was a part of the regime, and turned it against the regime and exposed the censorship wall for what it was.
And he is now being attacked personally, simply because people's politics disagree with his.
If you want a plurality, a thriving society, you MUST have the freedom to speak in opposition.
That accusations that Trump is going to "persecute anyone who disagrees with him" are ridiculous. He was in office for 4 years and he did no such thing, even when the Democrats proceeded to malign him like no other president in US history. What he has committed to doing is uncovering who has been politically persecuting him, and these constant attacks on him are nothing more than that. Even people from the Left are stating to agree.
I come from the Left. I'm ashamed of what the Left has become and want to no part of it, nor should anyone else who has their glasses on, is seeing clearly and wants to remain on the correct side of history.
They literally put us under martial law because of the flu.
The school board that shut our schools down made a blacklist of any parents that protested it and tried to get them fired from their jobs and harass their kids. They called on the FBI to target them.
The father of the poor girl that got raped by a "transgender" boy in the girls room that had been passed around from school to school raping girls got beaten up and arrested at a school board meeting trying to get justice for his daughter.
There is a long list of things that would get you fired from your job and unable to get another. In Europe they outright arrest people for speech and Kamala/Harris and the left in general have said that is where they want to go. They don't believe 1st amendment doesn't protect "hate speech" and "misinformation". Their stated political goal is to pack the court and reinterpret the constitution however they want.
Look, Elon has been pretty clear why he made his change:
1) California is a one party shithole and the Dems are using immigration to make the whole country California.
2) He found COVID policy atrocious and the censorship around it atrocious.
3) They trans-ed his kid. Lets try to remember that your party mutilates children and doesn't believe in objective reality.
Your reply is "if you don't like it, go more to IRAN." I guess I kind of see why Dick Cheney is on your side, wasn't that his logic during the War on Terror.
If you were a functional human being you would recognize that Iron Man deciding to go all in for the other side is a sign that you've lost your way.
There’s nothing particularly special or unique in adolescent attention seeking behavior. Musk is a man with a childlike sense of aggression enhanced by the narcotics of immense unearned wealth (as well as actual drugs). We are watching BEHAVIOR not BELIEF. People grow out of this stuff, if they have people around them that will be agents of that sort of change. Unfortunately, he has no close friends or deep relationships. This is all about compensation for all he lacks. He will crumble into dust at the first instance he has been challenged. Not a man, a sad wee mouse 🐁
First, although I know it was used as a colloquial expression but God/Nature doesn't care so there won't be any help coming from those quarters.
One of the indications of how far we have strayed from our Constitutional order is that the office of POTUS has come to be so all consuming. That who becomes President has become a matter of preeminent importance. That the candidates attract so much money to their campaigns. That Congress has slowly given so much of what ought to be its power as representatives of the people and the states over to our serial and sequential monarchs. Sometimes they have done it for seemingly good reasons like meeting a military emergency--- but often, as with the immigration issues, because they are afraid of taking the political risks necessary to legislate and ENFORCE policies.
The only thing that Trump, Musk and RFK represent is the fact that in ceding so much power to the Executive Branch Congress has empowered a few people the radical power to deconstruct the administrative state without a majority of the citizens permission. Such a radical transformation should be only possible with a majority vote in the House and 60 votes in the Senate.
There ought to be a Supreme Court willing and able to discard and not reinforce the concept of the unitary executive and force the executive to surrender some of its power back to Congress. Today we have a SCOTUS more than happy to trim back executive action by Presidents of one party but not the other party. This is not sustainable and leads to absurd decisions like we have seen recently.
Deregulation is a good thing but it is the job of Congress who created the regulations in the first place and the public expected enforcement of those regulations by the Executive branch--- not cabinet members and agencies being told which to enforce and follow and those or ignore.
It's all in that part of the Constitution where the President's job description is found “The President shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed” not interpreted.
When did opinion become conspiracy? Why is everything “dangerous“? I guess we have to have a demon on which to project our own insecurities. I guess they’re going to have to take the X-Files off the air. Just say you hate Trump and anyone who supports him. It’s ok to have this opinion and no one will consider you or your words “dangerous”.
If #Elmo is serious, he should address the “elefante” in the room. Namely, our $35 Trillion USD in “published” public debt. The interest that we currently pay on that block of debt is more than we are currently paying out in Social Security. So, let’s pay off the nation’s “credit card”, bring that balance down to zero, and deposit the savings into the Social Security Trust Fund in order that our future generations can “risk” capital without the fear of ending up in the “poor” house or worse … Starving to death out in the winter cold.
Tech will grow us out of this deficit in a few years, but only if Trump is elected.
Democrat over-regulation is intended to make them rich.
The assets owned by the U.S. are immense, from broadcast spectrum to 1/3 of Western state land owned by the federal government.
1/3 of the Western lands is owned by the people of the United States and the government is OUR custodian because we are the government. The lands are not for sale to whoever gave the biggest donation to the politicians.
One day Congress may take back power from our elected emperors (of both parties) and Congress alone will decide what to do with our national assets and not the Emperors on behalf of their patrons.
Just curious, do you think Paul Pelosi was attacked by a gay lover?
As if that would ever stand a snowball’s chance in Hell of ever happening.
What a ridiculous article.
The only reason we were able to break through the media wall that hid the truth from people during the pandemic, was because Twitter was purchased by Musk.
Before that purchase, people were enslaved to the media's will, which was coerced directly by Joe Biden's White House.
And if you need any more proof, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey both apologized for their handling of the pandemic and censoring the American people.
Free speech is not to protect the things you want to hear. It's to protect the things you don't want to hear.
If you're not free to speak, the same free speech laws that gave women, African Americans and all other minorities freedom will also be removed, preventing you to defend yourself one day.
Stop being a part of the censorship complex.
Do you actually know what it means to live in a totalitarian state? One where there really is a monoculture and people are literally enslaved to the will of the ruling party? No matter how bad Biden's record was on censorship with pressuring Facebook etc. (and for what it's worth, Trump's stated aims of literally imprisoning journalists and political opponents is far worse - that's the definition of an abuse of state power) there is a huge amount of pluralism in the United States - you have access to unlimited viewpoints from right and left, you can join whichever Church you want, and when the government or civil society messes up by trying to crack down on speech in troubling ways the society quickly course corrects and alternative views can fight it out. If you feel like you are being oppressed by a tyrannical system I simply don't know what to say to you, but I'd urge you to look at societies like China (especially if you are a Muslim) or Iran (especially if you are a woman) or historical examples from the 20th century. In the U.S. today how many different news articles could you read in the next hour alone if you chose to? How many political causes could you sign up to support? Basically unlimited. Would you fear going to jail? No. And imagine you were to post something on social media and it got flagged as misinformation and removed - then there are alternative platforms where that won't happen. Most importantly you won't get arrested or harassed by the government for your political views, it simply won't happen. And if it does then the courts will quickly step in. And if you get harassed or shouted down by members of the public for whatever reason (say for political reasons) and it doesn't cross the line into a police matter then that's just a byproduct of living in a free society and one we need to work to reduce but which isn't evidence of tyranny or conspiracy. And if you think that an article critical of Musk is part of a "censorship complex"—simply because it is critical of Musk—then we have very different ideas of what constitutes censorship.
This is my personal view.
Do I know what it's like to live in a totalitarian state? Yes. My family escaped one. On foot with children in arms. This is why I'm so vocal about it.
Ask ANYONE who has escaped such a place, who is just somewhat objectively educated about what is happening in the West, not just the US but across almost all Western Democratic countries, and they will tell you it's happening all over again.
The government, rather than being subservient to the populace, now knows better what the people need than the people know.
That 'plurality' that we all hold so dear is not just disappearing in the US. It's disappearing around the world, as Liberal governments in most countries are uniting to extinguish opposition, censor free speech and crush dissent by manipulating the media.
"No matter how bad Biden's record on censorship was"???
The administration CENSORED THE FREE SPEECH OF AMERICANS. He violated the 1st Amendment, suppressed truthful information and pushed untruthful information and THERE WAS NOTHING ANYONE COULD DO ABOUT IT.
It's not a "ok, but" moment.
It's an "OMFG GOD, I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS HAPPENED IN MODERN DAY AMERICA" moment.
Get real. Get some perspective. If it happened once, it will happen again. That possibility of it happening again needs to be crushed. Extinguished. Eliminated. The entire ability of Western democracy to thrive rests on this one single thing.
If they can do it for one emergency, they can do it for every emergency, and that means the same Free Speech you and I will need to defend ourselves may be eliminated one day just as it was eliminated over the pandemic.
The man who broke that censorship regime wide up, who allowed an investigation behind what happened, so that it could be exposed was the Musk, who purchased a company that was a part of the regime, and turned it against the regime and exposed the censorship wall for what it was.
And he is now being attacked personally, simply because people's politics disagree with his.
If you want a plurality, a thriving society, you MUST have the freedom to speak in opposition.
That accusations that Trump is going to "persecute anyone who disagrees with him" are ridiculous. He was in office for 4 years and he did no such thing, even when the Democrats proceeded to malign him like no other president in US history. What he has committed to doing is uncovering who has been politically persecuting him, and these constant attacks on him are nothing more than that. Even people from the Left are stating to agree.
I come from the Left. I'm ashamed of what the Left has become and want to no part of it, nor should anyone else who has their glasses on, is seeing clearly and wants to remain on the correct side of history.
They literally put us under martial law because of the flu.
The school board that shut our schools down made a blacklist of any parents that protested it and tried to get them fired from their jobs and harass their kids. They called on the FBI to target them.
The father of the poor girl that got raped by a "transgender" boy in the girls room that had been passed around from school to school raping girls got beaten up and arrested at a school board meeting trying to get justice for his daughter.
https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/scott_smith_critical_Race_theory_domestic_terrorist_biden_garland_doj.png
There is a long list of things that would get you fired from your job and unable to get another. In Europe they outright arrest people for speech and Kamala/Harris and the left in general have said that is where they want to go. They don't believe 1st amendment doesn't protect "hate speech" and "misinformation". Their stated political goal is to pack the court and reinterpret the constitution however they want.
Look, Elon has been pretty clear why he made his change:
1) California is a one party shithole and the Dems are using immigration to make the whole country California.
2) He found COVID policy atrocious and the censorship around it atrocious.
3) They trans-ed his kid. Lets try to remember that your party mutilates children and doesn't believe in objective reality.
Your reply is "if you don't like it, go more to IRAN." I guess I kind of see why Dick Cheney is on your side, wasn't that his logic during the War on Terror.
If you were a functional human being you would recognize that Iron Man deciding to go all in for the other side is a sign that you've lost your way.
Holy gish gallop, somebody hate doesn’t understand what martial law even is.
Conspiracists?
For the people who promulgated the Russian Collusion hoax to hamstring our 45th president?
For the people who said Covid originated from Zoonotic sources, not a lab leak?
For the people who opened the borders to 500,000 convicted criminals?
Can someone please apologize for the myriad Dem lies ("Fine People", "Suckers and Losers")?
Until then, your propaganda is a punchline.
In the national divorce we get Iron Man and you guys get Dick Cheney.
There’s nothing particularly special or unique in adolescent attention seeking behavior. Musk is a man with a childlike sense of aggression enhanced by the narcotics of immense unearned wealth (as well as actual drugs). We are watching BEHAVIOR not BELIEF. People grow out of this stuff, if they have people around them that will be agents of that sort of change. Unfortunately, he has no close friends or deep relationships. This is all about compensation for all he lacks. He will crumble into dust at the first instance he has been challenged. Not a man, a sad wee mouse 🐁
First, although I know it was used as a colloquial expression but God/Nature doesn't care so there won't be any help coming from those quarters.
One of the indications of how far we have strayed from our Constitutional order is that the office of POTUS has come to be so all consuming. That who becomes President has become a matter of preeminent importance. That the candidates attract so much money to their campaigns. That Congress has slowly given so much of what ought to be its power as representatives of the people and the states over to our serial and sequential monarchs. Sometimes they have done it for seemingly good reasons like meeting a military emergency--- but often, as with the immigration issues, because they are afraid of taking the political risks necessary to legislate and ENFORCE policies.
The only thing that Trump, Musk and RFK represent is the fact that in ceding so much power to the Executive Branch Congress has empowered a few people the radical power to deconstruct the administrative state without a majority of the citizens permission. Such a radical transformation should be only possible with a majority vote in the House and 60 votes in the Senate.
There ought to be a Supreme Court willing and able to discard and not reinforce the concept of the unitary executive and force the executive to surrender some of its power back to Congress. Today we have a SCOTUS more than happy to trim back executive action by Presidents of one party but not the other party. This is not sustainable and leads to absurd decisions like we have seen recently.
Deregulation is a good thing but it is the job of Congress who created the regulations in the first place and the public expected enforcement of those regulations by the Executive branch--- not cabinet members and agencies being told which to enforce and follow and those or ignore.
It's all in that part of the Constitution where the President's job description is found “The President shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed” not interpreted.
When did opinion become conspiracy? Why is everything “dangerous“? I guess we have to have a demon on which to project our own insecurities. I guess they’re going to have to take the X-Files off the air. Just say you hate Trump and anyone who supports him. It’s ok to have this opinion and no one will consider you or your words “dangerous”.