Babylon Bee Sues California Over 'Deepfake' Laws, Crackdown on Parody and Satire

 RTM (resistthemainstream.com)  

"The Bee’s complaint contends that satire and parody are protected under the First Amendment because they trust the American people to think and decide for themselves in the context of political debate." 

Popular satirical website the Babylon Bee has launched a legal offensive against the state of California, challenging newly enacted “deepfake” laws that could potentially muzzle parody and satire.

"The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, takes aim at legislation signed by Governor Gavin Newsom that targets the publication of what the state terms “materially deceptive content.”

"The Daily Wire reported that the legal action comes in response to a series of laws passed by the California legislature, seemingly inspired by a tweet from Governor Newsom suggesting that parody videos should be “illegal.” 

"These new regulations require social media platforms to act as watchdogs, identifying and removing content deemed deceptive or labeling it appropriately.

"Elon Musk punched Newsom back after he took aim at a parody ad for presidential candidate Kamala Harris the tech mogul had posted." . . .

American Liberty In The Balance

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 "Either way, the Democratic Party is serious about quashing speech that inconveniences its campaign to establish a political power base that cannot be challenged. Liberty is on the ballot this fall, just as it is every time a Democrat runs for office anywhere in this country."

"John Kerry, maybe the most pompous politician of our lifetimes, admits that the First Amendment is an obstacle to the Democrats’ hard-left agenda. It’s a deeply disturbing statement perfectly in line with the party’s irrepressible authoritarian urges.

"At last week’s Sustainable Development Impact Meetings of the World Economic Forum, Kerry, a long-time U.S. senator from Massachusetts, secretary of state for four years of the eight-year Obama nightmare, Joe Biden’s climate czar and a failed presidential candidate, acknowledged that his party wants to censor speech that it doesn’t approve of.

“ 'Our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to hammer [disinformation] out of existence,” he said. “What we need is to win the ground, win the right to govern by hopefully winning enough votes that you’re free to be able to implement change.”

"This was ominously followed by his warning that “there are some people in our country who prepared to implement change by other means.”

"His party will take that as a reference to Jan. 6. But the rest of us should understand that he’s saying that Democrats can take power the easy way or the hard way – so just turn it over to us in November and we won’t have to be more coercive than we already are.

"Kerry also complained that “it’s really hard to govern today.” This simply means that Democrats are finding that getting their way with policy is more difficult than in the past because the dissenting voices are now being heard on social media and from news sources that don’t believe it’s their job to put Democrats in office and keep them there.

"It’s impossible to watch the video without feeling the chill winds of censorship. Yet there’s no surprise. The political left began to abandon free speech through political correctness, then slowly, as if it had been part of a grand long-term plan, move on to government suppression of speech." . . .

Defeating Hezbollah Will Strengthen the West

  Con Coughlin :: Gatestone Institute 

 The reality, though, is that the group most responsible for causing casualties is Hezbollah which, like its Iranian-backed ally Hamas in Gaza, has no qualms about putting innocent Lebanese civilians in harm's way.

 "The Israeli military campaign against Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists is not just an exercise in safeguarding Israel from suffering further bombardment from tens of thousands of missiles and attack drones.

"An Israeli victory against Hezbollah's terrorist infrastructure in Lebanon is vital to guaranteeing the security of the entire Western alliance. It will send a clear signal to Iran -- Hezbollah's paymasters -- that the ayatollahs' unremitting campaign against the West and its allies is ultimately doomed to failure.

"It is certainly a consideration world leaders must take on board as they attempt to negotiate a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, one that would undoubtedly be to the Iranian-backed terror group's advantage.

"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after taking 11 months of continuous rocket fire and fruitless negotiations, rejected the ceasefire idea, presumably out of concern that it would only provide Hamas and Hezbollah with a chance to rearm to attack again, as they have openly vowed to do.

"After the inconclusive war Israel fought against Hezbollah in 2006, the scale of the latest Israeli assault against Hezbollah's terrorist infrastructure in Lebanon shows that, this time, the Israelis have no intention of ending their military campaign until Hezbollah is no longer in a position to maintain its relentless assault against northern Israel.

"Hezbollah launched its drone and missile attacks against Israel -- using many munitions supplied by Iran -- indiscriminately attacking Israeli civilian targets, primarily in Israel's north -- just one day after the devastating October 7, 2023 attacks.

"This uncalled for assault has resulted in an estimated 90,000 Israelis being forced to flee their homes, leaving large swathes of northern Israel deserted. Hezbollah has said that those Israelis will not be able to return to their homes, raising concerns that Hezbollah, which had been planning to invade northern Israel, might also be planning to occupy it." . . .

Greg Gutfeld SHREDS Fake News for Ignoring Report on 13,000 Killer Migrants Inside the US - Thanks To Kamala, Democrats

 (Video) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft   "Greg Gutfeld took a blowtorch to the fake news media on Monday’s show for ignoring the report released Friday by ICE revealing Democrats and Kamala Harris have welcomed over 13,000 killers and 15,000 sex abusers into the American homeland.

"Has there ever been another country in world history that has allowed 13,000 killers to walk freely into their country?

"Gutfeld gutted the fake news media for ignoring this critical report that affects every family and every person in the US today.

"Gutfeld, not one to mince words, lambasted the press for intentionally ignoring the facts, despite the source being none other than ICE—Immigration and Customs Enforcement—our own government agency.

"This is not your daddy’s Democrat Party!"

"In a normal, functioning democracy, “Border Czar” Kamala Harris would be removed from the presidential campaign and face criminal charges for endangering the lives of EVERY American.

"As The Gateway Pundit reported on Friday — A recent ICE report has confirmed the devastating consequences of the Biden-Harris regime’s disastrous open border policies.

"According to the report from the Deputy Director of ICE Patrick Lechleitner sent to Congressman Tony Gonzalez, over 662,000 illegal immigrants with criminal histories are currently on ICE’s national docket.

"Even more alarming is that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is currently tracking over 425,000 illegal immigrants convicted of various crimes, while 226,000 face pending criminal charges, all of whom have been released into the United States under the regime’s lenient immigration enforcement.

"Of that staggering number, over 13,000 illegal immigrants have been convicted of homicide, and more than 15,000 have been convicted of sexual assault.

"Kamala welcomed 13,000 KILLERS into America since she took charge of the border!

Leftists celebrate deaths and destruction in red states after Hurricane Helene

 Leftists celebrate deaths and destruction in red states after Hurricane Helene - Monica Showalter  "Bodies are still being pulled out of the water as North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and Georgia try to clean up after the devastating destruction of Hurricane Helene.

"But that hasn't stopped leftists from celebrating the natural disaster, given that the victims died or saw their homes destroyed in states that don't always vote the way they'd like.

"Here's a charmer from the United Kingdom who teaches kids:

Meet Betsy Packard, an instructor at @UKarts_sciences. She appears to celebrate Hurricane Helene destroying cities because some of those towns are Republican.

Does @UKarts_sciences also believe this? Do they condone these messages? pic.twitter.com/BwHwaPAGLH

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 30, 2024

Here We Go... CBS Hacks "Fact-Check" JD Vance — Then Won't Let Him Speak —

 ... Then CUT HIS MIC | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Here we go…

The far-left CBS hacks moderating the debate on Tuesday took time to “fact-check” JD Vance on the 20,000 Haitian migrants that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris flew into Springfield, Ohio in the past three years.

Senator Vance then interrupted and corrected Margaret Brennan about the Biden plan to fly in illegals to American cities.

That’s when CBS cut his mic!

They wouldn’t let him speak!

Wow!

Israel Delivers a Blistering Response UN Sec General's Disgraceful Call for Ceasefire

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J.D. Vance Is Right: Kamala Harris Owns The Border Disaster (thefederalist.com)    

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"During Tuesday’s vice presidential debate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance schooled Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on who’s actually responsible for America’s ongoing border crisis: Vice President Kamala Harris.

The moment came when CBS “moderator” and Democrat hack Magaret Brennan asked Vance if a Trump-Vance administration would “separate” illegal alien parents from their children who were born in the U.S. as part of a nationwide deportation operation. Rather than grant Brennan’s biased framing, Vance flipped the script by highlighting the disastrous border invasion caused by the Biden-Harris administration’s open border policies.

“Before we talk about deportations, we have to stop the bleeding. We have a historic immigration crisis … Kamala Harris started and said that she wanted to undo all of Donald Trump’s border policies,” Vance said. “I had a mother who struggled with opioid addiction and has gotten clean. I don’t want people who are struggling with addiction to be deprived of their second chance because Kamala Harris let … fentanyl into our communities at record levels.”

The Ohio Republican went on to say that in order to stop the border crisis, the federal government must reimplement Trump’s policies and deportations. He specifically highlighted the importance of deporting violent criminals who have committed additional offenses beyond crossing the border illegally.

Pivoting back to Brennan’s “family separation” question, Vance noted how more than 300,000 migrant children are unaccounted for by the Biden-Harris Department of Homeland Security.

“The real family separation policy in this country is unfortunately Kamala Harris’ wide open southern border,” Vance said.

Tim Walz cabinet pick deletes photo from social media showing walls adorned with images of Mao Zedong and Che Guevara

Olivia Murray - American Thinker   "Would you be surprised to learn that one of Tim Walz’s cabinet-level administrators, Ida Rukavina, has posters of history’s most notorious communists, including Mao Zedong and Che Guevara, adorning the walls of her home? No? Me neither.

"Would you be surprised to learn that when someone happened to discover this via Rukavina’s social media footprint, she promptly deleted the image and won’t respond to any requests for comment from the media? Again, no? Well again, me neither.

"From Alec Schemmel’s report out at Fox News:

A cabinet-level political appointee of Minnesota’s Democratic Gov. Tim Walz decorated the walls of her home with posters of murderous communist dictators, according to a photo posted on Facebook in December 2021 that was discovered by a Minnesota resident and shared with Fox News Digital.

[snip]

On Dec. 19, 2021, Rukavina posted a photo of her dog to Facebook, according to metadata attached to the image, which appears to have been deleted. In the background were clearly visible posters of communist leaders Mao Zedong and Che Guevara decorating the wall.

"And, I don’t want to hear the “maybe she just likes history” line." . . . 

German Family That Owns Krispy Kreme Admits It Profited From Nazi Ties

 Brigit Katz - Smithsonian

In light of the revelations about their family’s Nazi past, the Reimanns plan to donate $11 million to an as-yet-unspecified charity, according to Deutsche Welle.

"One of the wealthiest families in Germany, which owns controlling stakes in such companies as Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Panera Bread and Peet’s Coffee, has admitted that it profited from forced labor during the Second World War. What’s more, reports Katrin Bennhold of the New York Times, recent revelations indicate that the two men who ran the family business in the 1930s and '40s—Albert Reimann Sr. and his son Albert Reimann Jr.—actively participated in the abuse of their workers.

"The German tabloid Bild broke the news of the Reimann family’s troubling past over the weekend, when it published a story based on an interim report delivered earlier this year by Paul Erker, an economic historian at the University of Munich, who was hired by the Reimanns to investigate the family’s Nazi ties. That investigation has been ongoing for more than four years, and is still not complete. But Peter Harf, the family’s spokesman and a managing partner of JAB Holding Company, which the Reimanns control, did not deny Bild’s account.

" 'Reimann Sr. and Reimann Jr. were guilty,” he told the publication, according to Deutsche Welle. “The two businessmen have passed away, but they actually belonged in prison.”

"The report found that Reimann Sr. and Reimann Jr. were fervent anti-Semites and enthusiastic Nazi supporters, with the elder Reimann donating to the SS as early as 1931, two years before Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. During WWII, their industrial chemicals factory in southern Germany was powered by forced laborers:" . . .

“We were ashamed and white as sheets,” Harf told Bild, as Deutsche Welle reports. “There is nothing to gloss over. These crimes are disgusting.”

Will those of Hamas ever feel similar grief over what they did to Jews over the years, particularly on Oct 7th and in the tunnels below Gaza? TD

German Firms that Used Slave Labor During Nazi Era;  (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)    "The following list, compiled by the American Jewish Committee (except for Hugo Boss, Volkswagen, and Bahlsen), is composed of companies that requisitioned forced and slave labor during the Holocaust as well as modern companies with a combination of highly similar names, locations or products. There is not necessarily any legal connection between the historical and actual lists of companies, but research shows that all of these companies have a high probability of historical and/or financial links.

"This list is meant as a public service. The intention is neither to stigmatize nor to judge companies or individuals but to demonstrate the wide scope of the usage of forced laborers and slave laborers by all branches of German industry during the Nazi era. At least 47 of the companies on the original list have voluntarily joined the slave labor compensation fund."

Cackling Kamala Harris LIES That World Leaders Are ‘Laughing’ at Donald Trump, but European Foreign Ministers Show She Couldn’t Be More Wrong

The Gateway Pundit | by Paul Serran 

. . ."But of course, no European nation has praised the success of Trump’s first term – and expressed hopes for a strong second term – as has Hungary. According to Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó, his government has ‘huge expectations’ for a new Trump administration." . . .

"Donald Trump is a great world leader with a wonderful sense of humor, but he knows that geopolitics are a consequential thing that he tackles with due seriousness – and unlike the worst VP in American history Kamala Harris, he is not in the habit of making a fool of himself.

"So when Cackling Harris ridiculously claims that world leaders are ‘laughing’ at Trump, it reveals a lot about herself.

"Sure enough, Foreign ministers from European nations with close U.S. ties immediately reacted to her comment, dismissing it.

"During the presidential debate, Harris said  that World leaders ‘are laughing at Donald Trump’. ‘I have talked with military leaders, some of whom worked with you, and they say you’re a disgrace’.

"But when asked about this absurd quote, foreign ministers that are in attendance dismissed any preference, and made it clear that they will work with whomever wins.

"Fox News reported:

" '‘We are friends of America’, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said, noting Italy and the U.S. are ‘two sides of the same coin’. ‘If Trump will be the new president of America, we will work with him as we worked with him when he was president of America. We worked well with Biden, with Bush, with Reagan, with Clinton, with Obama’, Tajani added. ‘For us, the transatlantic relations are the key strategy of our foreign policy, Europe and America’.”

"Foreign minister for the Czech Republic, Jan Lipavsky stressed that he would not interfere in the election, saying ‘leave it to the American citizens to decide’.

"But he could not help but stress Trump’s ‘strong’ message of defense spending, one he hopes Europe would continue to embrace." . . .

The absent Joe Biden

 

Ken Swope.

Gone Biden Gone – Commentary Magazine 

. . ."So, yes, Biden had to go. But the solution here is probably no solution. I’m not saying Kamala Harris can’t win the presidency against Donald Trump. The Lord is the only one who knows, and given how He’s altered reality for the past 25 days, I wouldn’t put it past Him to keep throwing us for loops because, let’s face it, we’re sinners and we’re bad and we deserve everything we’re getting. We have the greatest country on earth, the greatest constitution, the greatest economy, the greatest everything, and we’ve ended up fostering a political culture so generally nauseating that even Screwtape must be feeling a little sorry for us." . . .  John Podhoretz

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'Cooked': An Out-of-It Joe Biden Is Asked About Israeli Strikes on Yemen, Gives Very Concerning Response – RedState

 Biden Confuses Israeli Airstrikes in Yemen With Union Strikes (legalinsurrection.com)   "President Joe Biden is just gone. Just WOW.

"No words. Seriously, I don’t have to write or say anything else about his answer regarding the Israeli airstrikes in Yemen:

REPORTER: “Any comment on the strikes in Yemen, Mr. President!?”

BIDEN (or whatever’s left of him): “I’ve spoken to both sides. They gotta settle the strike. I’m supporting the collective bargaining effort. I think they’ll settle the strike.”. . . 

 His only quick recall is his visceral hatred of Donald Trump. TD   Journos Admit Fear of Trump Victory Influenced Scant Reporting on Biden’s Cognitive Issues (legalinsurrection.com)  . . ."As it turned out, Biden outed himself in front of millions during that CNN debate. After that, the media knew they couldn’t hide it anymore – not just because the way their failure to treat the issue with the seriousness it deserved (instead of dismissing concerning video clips as “cheap fakes“) made them look but also because they knew if they didn’t act fast it was going to be too late to replace him as the Democrat nominee.

"No matter which way you look at it, the media engaged in their own brand of election interference, trying to hide Joe Biden’s obvious health issues for the three and a half years before that debate, and then doing their part in the aftermath of it to pressure him to exit the race." . . .

Biden drops out, endorses Harris: Is Kamala Harris a better candidate now than she was in 2020?

"In short, she is a pathological liar who will say anything if it will win her votes.  That is rather typical of politicians who assume voters are not only ignorant but really stupid."  Patricia McCarthy

AfterMath

Jul 10, 2024,  Biden drops out, endorses Harris: Is Kamala Harris a better candidate now than she was in 2020? | Vox   "The last time Kamala Harris ran a campaign for the presidency, she dropped out of the contest before a single vote was cast.

"After launching her bid in Oakland, California, in front of a crowd of 20,000 supporters in January 2019, she campaigned for 310 days before dropping out of the contest. At the time she left the race, she was polling at 4 percent or lower in polling aggregates — a complete flop. It was a stunning result: Harris had been seen as a rising star for most of her years campaigning for and legislating in the Senate, questioning Trump administration officials, and was viewed as the possible future of the Democratic Party as she prepared for a presidential bid.

"She didn’t get close to the nomination in 2020. Now, due to the unprecedented weirdness of the 2024 cycle, she’s as close as she has ever been. President Joe Biden is under strong pressure to drop out of the race, but so far, has vowed not to do so. If that changes, Harris appears most likely to replace him atop the ticket.

But would a Harris-led ticket give Democrats a better shot at beating Donald Trump? What can we learn from 2020 that informs us on how she’d fare in 2024? And would the factors that held Harris back in 2020 likely still plague her this time around?" . . .

As with Biden saying "Don't, look at what she said vs. what she did:

A look at Kamala Harris' work on foreign policy as vice president - CBS News

"After President Biden announced he would not be running for reelection, he endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as his pick to become the Democratic nominee. Here's a look at some of Harris' work on foreign policy over the last three and a half years:

. . ."Harris was assigned early during the Biden administration with addressing the "root causes" of irregular migration to the United States across its border with Mexico. She described those causes as corruption and lack of economic opportunity in some Central and South American nations.

"She has traveled to Latin America twice as vice president: To Mexico and Guatemala in 2021, and to Honduras in 2022.

"During a speech In Guatemala, she told people in the region considering making an unauthorized trip across the border: "Do not come. Do not come. The United States will continue to enforce our laws and secure our borders." . . .

How on Earth do Harris supporters rationalize away her continuous stream of lies? - Patricia McCarthy     "Kamala Harris was a district attorney in San Francisco, then a state attorney general in Sacramento, but apparently never personally prosecuted a single case. 

"She did damage though, contributing to the sad downfall of those once-glorious cities. In 2014, she led the charge to pass Proposition 47, which ended prosecutions for crimes deemed unimportant and tied the hands of police. Crime and lawlessness have followed.

"Then she became a senator.  Only California would elect such an unqualified person to that high office. She was by all accounts the most radical senator in Congress while she was there." . . .  Many, I suppose are those who wear those designer scarves while chanting 'Death to America!' TD