The Babylon Bee predicts the future and therein lies the problem

 

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Babylon Bee Censorship Shows Why Courts Should Uphold Texas’ Social Media Law  

Earlier this week, Twitter locked the account of The Babylon Bee, a right-leaning parody site, after it awarded Rachel Levine, a transgender Biden administration official, the title of “man of the year” in reaction to USA Today naming Levine one of its “women of the year” last week. This is just the most recent example in a long train of Big Tech censorship actions. . . .

7 Times The Babylon Bee Reported History Before It Happened (thefederalist.com)

"The joke is on Twitter — not only is the Big Tech bully showing its ridiculous vendetta and giving the Bee a lot of publicity, it’s also helping the Bee’s prophesies come true.". . .

"While Twitter struts its bully power to shut down free speech and keeps us all from our favorite source of satire accurate predictions of insanity, it’s a good time to reflect on all the times the Bee has proven a more reliable source of news than corporate outlets like The Washington Post and CNN. Here are a few of the most memorable times the Bee’s satirists predicted history before it was written.". . .

Shut down by Twitter, Babylon Bee stands up to tyranny of Big Tech - American Thinker

 . . ."This isn't the Bee's first clash with Big Tech.

"In 2020, Facebook demonetized the Bee's account and removed an article lampooning Democrat senator Mazie Hirono's comments during the confirmation hearings of SCOTUS nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett. 

"Facebook claimed that the article was "inciting violence" and demanded that the "problematic" portions be removed for the post to be restored.". . .

. . ."This occurred at a time when Facebook allowed content such as that generated by BLM's Hawk Newsome, who tweeted: "If this country doesn't give us what we want then we will burn down the system and replace it," and Democrat congresswoman Maxine Waters, who incited "protesters" to harass members of the Trump administration.". . . 

Freedom of expression emanates from freedom of thought.  Every amazing invention or idea or literary work was the product of a brave new idea.  A society that demands consensus ceases to grow.

This is why people living under totalitarian regimes rarely innovate.  It is not for the lack of talent; it is just that the people do not want to risk their lives by expressing a different idea.

By censoring and suppressing the "wrong" ideas, Big Tech is effectively impeding growth.  There is no place for such tyranny in one of the world's largest democracies.

Judge Jackson: what has become of American culture?

 Thursday Cartoon: Biology Is a Social Construct... – RedState

"Soon, the highest court in the land will have a woman on it who can’t define what she is. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson can’t answer that seemingly obvious question: “What is a woman?”

"But here’s a conundrum for the left. What if we all self-identify as… a biologist? If I can be a woman by saying I am, I can be a biologist, too.

"From now on, I am self-identifying (only on Thursdays, and 9am to noon) as a Golden Retriever Biologist.". . .

Ketanji Jackson’s Polling May Not Be as Good as the Media Wants You to Believe – PJ Media    . . ."Republicans have also been pointing out her past embrace of critical race theory and its advocates, and her controversial refusal to define what a woman is. These positions presumably will hurt her image amongst Americans who haven’t yet made up their minds about her.". . .

Ketanji Jackson Has Been Alarmingly Evasive in Her Testimony – PJ Media

. . ."Eli Yokley of Morning Consult nevertheless spun the numbers positively, claiming Jackson had “sturdy backing,” but that’s misleading for two reasons. First, she failed to get support from a majority of those surveyed—which is not a strong position. Second, this poll, which was conducted March 18-21, comes mostly prior to her confirmation hearings, meaning that many voters simply haven’t had the opportunity to form an opinion on Jackson yet. Republicans have aggressively been highlighting her soft-on-crime record as a judge, which includes a disturbing pattern of leniency for sex offenders and child pornographers.". . .

AF Branco -

Judge Jackson, what is a woman?

 ‘Ketanji” is pronounced ke-tan-ji, with the phonetic transcription /kɛtənd͡ʒi/. Where Did Ketanji Brown Jackson Go To High School? Jackson grew up in Miami, Florida, and graduated from Miami Palmetto Senior High School in 1988. After high school, Jackson studied government at Harvard University, graduating in 1992 with an A.B. magna cum laude.   From: How Old Is Ketanji Jackson? How Do You Pronounce Ketanji? Where Did Ketanji Brown Jackson Go To High School? - ABTC

Ketanji Brown Jackson's anti-constitutional, pro–child predator views - American Thinker    . . ."Democrats' statements today boiled down to three things: (1) We are so excited that you're a Black female. (2) Republicans are racist for daring to inquire into your credentials and views. (3) Regarding those racist questions, we would never treat a Supreme Court nominee as disrespectfully as the Republicans are treating you.  (Their disgraceful treatment of Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Comey Barrett, Clarence Thomas, and Robert Bork has been memory-holed.)". . .

Oh, man. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is backtracking on her earlier statement that Critical Race Theory is not taught in schools, after evidence that it is taught in her Georgetown private school, saying that she thought he meant "public schools." Joel Pollak. . .

 Stark difference in Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings centers around question on beer NOT asked (bizpacreview.com)  Life is good when the media and the late-night TV hosts love you unconditionally. More reasons to fear for this nation.

Is this a reason for hope?

SEN. BLACKBURN: "Can you provide a definition of the word 'woman'?"

JACKSON: "No, I can't"

BLACKBURN: "You can't?"

JACKSON: "I'm not a biologist" pic.twitter.com/i7Rg83z5Y4

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 23, 2022

 Pictured: Biological woman:

 The things they don’t teach at Harvard – Black Woman Brown Jackson cannot define “woman” | the Aspen beat    . . ."Republican Senator: “Given that you said yesterday that you cannot define the word ‘woman’ what is it that makes you think you are one?”

"That line of questioning will not take place, because logical but awkward questions to Dem nominees are deemed by the woke establishment – which is to say almost all of the establishment – to be hateful or racist or something or another that’s bad.

"In any event, I suspect that Black Woman Brown Jackson will decide on a definition of “woman” within seconds after she is confirmed by the Senate and will stick to that definition for her 30 or more years on the Supreme Court. We won’t like her definition, nor will any real biologist.

"But the lying leftist wokerati will. This is the same group that says Justice Clarence Thomas is not really black, because he’s a conservative.To the left, what matters is ideology and power, not logic, honesty or truth."

Protecting Biden Is a Full-Time Job for the Times

 Ann Coulter

"This is an odd line to read in The New York Times:  Ashley Biden’s Diary Was Shown at Trump Fund-Raiser. Weeks Later, Project Veritas Called Her. - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

"In “a still-emerging story” (exciting, no?), Project Veritas “worked to expose personal information about the Biden family at a crucial stage of the 2020 campaign.”

"Isn’t that what journalists are supposed to do?

"Just kidding! As we saw with Hunter Biden’s laptop, the job of journalists is to suppress negative information about Democrats. Instead of reporting news “without fear or favor” — Times founder Adolph S. Ochs, 1896 — the U.S. media now function as the Praetorian Guard for the Democratic Party.

"Still, you’d think the Times would be embarrassed to attack others for doing the reporting they won’t do.

"The story was about how Project Veritas got its hands on the diary of the president’s daughter, Ashley Biden. (She’s the good child by virtue of being less of a drug fiend than Hunter.) It was titled: “Ashley Biden’s Diary Was Shown at Trump Fund-Raiser. Weeks Later, Project Veritas Called Her.”

"The Times no longer reports news about the president: It berates other journalists for reporting news about the president.

"Thus, the Times breathlessly reveals:

"— “The diary’s highly personal contents, if publicly disclosed, could prove an embarrassment or a distraction to her father at a critical moment in the campaign.”

"THAT’S NOT JOURNALISM! THAT’S HURTING A DEMOCRAT! IT’S LIKE ANTI-JOURNALISM.

— “[The Project Veritas] caller was seeking to trick Ms. Biden into confirming the authenticity of the diary …”

"So? Has the Times heard of Woodward and Bernstein? “60 Minutes”? Journalism?". . .

Let's play 'spot the peaceful protester'

 American Thinker  . . ."Despite billions of dollars lost in aggregated revenue, property damage, and thousands of human causalities (including many deaths), the "neo-peaceful protest" movement still receives credit as altogether peaceful!

"Is this just an expansion of the definition of "peaceful protest"?  Well, not quite.  It's a complete redefinition — a redefinition both disorienting and nonsensical.

"The definition of peaceful protests used to refer to mass marches and chants of dissatisfaction (while unarmed).  Many Americans don't realize that that definition exactly describes the protesters in D.C. on January 6, 2021.  They were unarmed as they marched toward the Capitol buildings, chanting displeasure with the presidential election outcome.  Media and commentators called this group "hateful," "White Supremacists," and insurrectionists. 

"That's funny.  The D.C. protesters didn't topple statues, they didn't set buildings on fire, they didn't set upon onlookers and demand a salute, and they didn't loot or interfere with private businesses at all.  Yet those actually peaceful protestors are universally targeted, condemned, and prosecuted by the FBI, CIA, Capitol Police, and judges.  True, some in this group did enter Capitol grounds and have been charged with "trespassing."  Still, compared to the fully armed, violent rioting and looting "neo-peaceful protesters" in 2020, this cadre of protesters was entirely benign.  Like something out of Orwell's 1984, the disproportional treatment between these two groups is grotesque!"

Joe's War: "The fate of the world is in the hands of a man who is literally and demonstrably a weak-willed and mentally disabled dimwit."

Joe Biden’s War - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

"What are the Biden family’s benefactors in Ukraine and Russia getting for their money? Whose interests is the Biden regime serving?

 "So here we are in a shooting war with Russia. We are supplying the weapons, and the Ukrainians are doing the fighting and dying. But make no mistake. In addition to arming the Ukrainians, by our sanctions, we have declared economic war on Russia and, reportedly, are also using our satellites to target Russian troops for death and destruction. We are in this war just as surely as if Americans were on the ground pulling the triggers.

"And, as this goes on, the question becomes how will it play out? Will Russia retaliate with cyberattacks to disrupt our domestic power grid, pipelines, transportation, financial institutions or other infrastructure?  Will it unleash chemical or biological agents? Will it use tactical nukes to speed up the rubbling of Ukraine’s cities? How will we respond if Russia pursues any of these options? And how close are we to that one misstep that could cause events to spiral out of control into nuclear conflagration?

"How did we get here?

"The answer is simple. The titular head of the Biden regime is weak, corrupt, and mentally incompetent. None of this is or has been a secret. All of it has been on embarrassing display before the entire world and was disastrously demonstrated by Joe Biden’s witless and chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan as well as his astoundingly moronic prewar assurance to Vladmir Putin that the United States would not militarily oppose an invasion of Ukraine.

"Biden’s caretakers have tried to hide and explain away his glaringly obvious unfitness for office. During the 2020 presidential campaign, he was kept out of public view. As our purported president, his public appearances have been marked by his inability to extemporaneously speak in a coherent manner. He even struggles to read off a teleprompter and frequently appears to be confused and lost in a mental fog.". . .

25th Amendment Disability: Can We Quickly Boot Joe-Kamala? - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

"In the face of their incompetence, today’s situation requires emergency measures."

 

FNC's Peter Doocy to Jen Psaki: Why Are Border Detention Facilities Open At Full Capacity But Not Schools? | Video | RealClearPolitics   "FNC's Peter Doocy asked White House press secretary Jen Psaki during Wednesday's press briefing why Biden's immigration policy seems to have more to do with reversing decisions made by the Trump administration than securing the border.

"Doocy also asks: "Does the WH think that it's a problem when the CDC tells these migrant shelter facilities that they can be a full capacity... But when the CDC tells schools that they can open in person at full capacity, many of them don't?"

" 'Have the border patrols unions and the HHS unions been easier to work with than teachers unions?' ". . .

DOOCY TIME: "We just heard you say....you think inflation is going to be temporary. We've heard you say [that] since last spring, so how long do you guys think temporary is?

Psaki: "Well...what we do is...rely on the assessments of the [Fed] and of outside economic analysts[.]" pic.twitter.com/UUCSmDBOzT

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 10, 2022

I did a search for Doocy-Psaki exchanges, but all but two in the first several pages were "Psaki totally conquers Doocy" themes.  None on either side were thoughtful pieces. TD

Math professor fired after refusing woke reeducation, so judge strips crucial protection from his persecutors

 Warner Todd Huston, The Western Journal   "The publicly funded University of North Texas was dealt a blow in court after a federal judge said school officials can be held responsible for firing employees for exercising their right of free speech.

"In his 69-page order of March 11, Judge Sean Jordan, of the United States District Court for Eastern Texas, found that university officials should have known that math professor Nathaniel Hiers' speech "touched on a matter of public concern and that discontinuing his employment because of his speech violated the First Amendment," before they fired him for going public with his disagreement with the left-wing concept of "microaggressions."

"The university was claiming qualified immunity for school officials in the case, meaning that the school wanted its officials to be excluded from being held responsible for their actions merely because they were acting in their position as state employees. Jordan denied the claim of qualified immunity and also denied the school's demand to have the case dismissed outright.

"The University of North Texas is in Denton, about 40 miles north of Dallas.

"According to Just the News, the case stems from an incident in 2019 when Hiers wrote "Don't leave garbage lying around" on a faculty lounge chalkboard right above a stack of flyers pushing the idea of "microaggressions." The flyers were not approved by the school for distribution, but some left-wing professor left them out for people to take regardless.". . .

MSNBC, CNN, CBS told viewers Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation

 FLASHBACK: MSNBC, CNN, CBS told viewers Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation | Fox News   "The New York Times last week confirmed the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s missing laptop, a story which was originally dismissed as Russian disinformation by many liberal media outlets leading up to the 2020 presidential election.". . .

Peter Schweizer: Hunter's 'Laptop from Hell' Leads 'Straight to' Joe Biden | Neon Nettle

Schweizer, whose best-selling book - Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win - reveals how the Biden family has enriched themselves through shady foreign deals, dropped the hammer on Joe Biden during an appearance on Fox News.

He weighed in on The New York Times finally admitting that Hunter Biden’s laptop, and the emails found on it, are all authentic.

According to Schweizer, the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop show his father, Joe Biden, “was the beneficiary” of funds from influential people in Ukraine, China, and Russia.

 Bill Barr says Joe Biden lied to Americans about Hunter Biden laptop: ‘I was very disturbed’ | Fox News   . . ."Co-host Sandra Smith pressed Barr on whether the Hunter's laptop could become a "problem" for the White House.

" 'From a political standpoint now that this is in people’s consciousness, it had been suppressed up until now, obviously they have a hot potato and just to see how they handle it will be interesting," Barr responded.". . .

Hunter Biden Laptop: Jen Psaki Dodges on Biden's Smear of Authenticated Laptop Story | National Review   . . ."Senator Chris Coons (D., DE.), a longtime Biden ally,  professed to be “glad they’re managing the content on their own websites.”

"A slew of other figures and outlets followed the Biden camp in dismissing and even condemning the story.

"Brian Stelter, chief media correspondent for CNN and host of the cable show Reliable Sources declared at the time that the Post story was not based on ” fully reliable sources here,” and called it “a classic example of the right-wing media machine,” as well as a “manufactured scandal.”

"At National Public Radio, managing editor Terence Samuel wrote that the organization would not be covering the story because “we don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”. . .

Mr. Biden, please explain to our class what meth does to your teeth.

Squad member Rep. Cori Bush: 'We can't be afraid of saying defund the police' -

 American Thinker   "Freshman representative Cori Bush (D-Mo.) is giving heartburn to Nancy Pelosi and the other bosses of the Democrat party who understand that their real agenda has to be kept hidden from the public.  Bush is a radical BLM-supporter who defeated a ten-term veteran congressman, Lacy Clay, in a primary upset and went on to win the general election in a safe Democrat district that includes the city of St. Louis and northern suburbs.  This is exactly parallel to the career trajectory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

"And like Sandy Cortez, Cori Bush feels free to speak her mind, knowing that she has already defeated the party bosses.

"Appearing on The Breakfast Club, a Black-oriented syndicated radio program, Rep. Bush created a video segment that will be of great assistance to Republican candidates.  It's less than 30 seconds, perfect for video ads.". . .

Did Woke Rep. Cori Bush Forge Those ‘Racist’ Messages ...

'Law schools are in crisis. The truth doesn't matter much. The game is to signal one's virtue'

 Yale law school professor issues urgent warning about the future of the rule of law in the US  | Daily Mail Online

. . . "A corporate lawyer in Virginia, who asked Sibarium to remain anonymous for fear of losing his job, agreed that law is now reflective of those who are currently in power and hold the popular opinion. 

'You see it in all of the worst things we see in Donald Trump: 'The law means what I say it means. The election was stolen because I lost,' the lawyer said, referring to The former presidents unfounded but popular claims of election fraud.   

'Once you depart from the idea that we're all people under the law, it really matters who is in power. That starts to feel like the rule of man, not the rule of law.'

'That's hugely corrosive,' the lawyer added. 

Another anonymous attorney, who works in Washington D.C., added that this mentality has already been affecting law offices around the nation as lawyers are now worried about the optics of the cases they take up and how 'woke' they appear in front of their associates. 

'Partners are being blindsided by associates who they think are liberals in their own image, but they're not,' the lawyer told Sibarium. 

'The associates want to burn the place down.'  

Strossen added that this has also led lawyers feel like they must self-censor walk on a tightrope to make sure they don't say anything that could be seen as remotely controversial. 

'I massively self-censor,' she said. 'I assume that every single thing that is said, every facial gesture, is going to be recorded and potentially disseminated to the entire world. ". . .

Mother of trans teenager: Los Angeles County killed my daughter

 Washington Examiner

"The number of teenagers identifying as transgender has exploded. Advocates say it protects young people from marginalization. Some experts, however, many of whom consider themselves survivors, warn against treating adolescent confusion with drugs and surgeries that have irreversible physical and psychological effects. In the second part of this series, the Washington Examiner speaks to the mothers affected.

"Abby Martinez tried to fight back when a Los Angeles school, county social workers, and an LGBT group sought to transition her confused 15-year-old daughter.

"But once Yaeli Martinez was moved into foster care and later injected with testosterone, the heartbroken mother could only watch helplessly as the girl spiraled into depression that ended when she stepped in front of an oncoming train.

" 'They killed my daughter," a tearful Martinez told the Washington Examiner. "They had to pick pieces of her off of the track.' ”. . .