Wednesday, June 28, 2023

The Babylon Bee Is Fighting For Free Speech — And You Can Help |

 Babylon Bee

"The First Amendment is under constant assault in our nation. At The Babylon Bee, we fight on the front lines, wielding satire and silly jokes as weapons in a fight to preserve free speech in our culture. We've been fighting these battles since our inception. Some of the more notable examples include:

  • 'Being accused by The New York Times of "trafficking in misinformation," resulting in us forcing the media giant to publicly issue a correction.
  • Standing up and confronting "fact-checkers" from Snopes and USA Today (yes, they "fact-checked" jokes), despite the fact that we are a satire site.
  • Filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court to support a humorist who was actually jailed because of a parody website.
  • Suing the Attorney General's Office in the state of California to block the enforcement of a law requiring social media companies to regularly report "misinformation, disinformation, extremism, radicalization, and hate speech."
  • Refusing to delete a tweet that resulted in our suspension from Twitter, which may or may not have started a chain reaction that led to Elon Musk buying Twitter and restoring multiple accounts that had been labeled "controversial."

"Despite this track record of success, the fight for free speech has only just begun. This year, we had a video sketch pulled from Facebook for "misinformation." Why? Because we made a joke about people who wear masks. In our recent interview with Elon Musk, he told us there is still censorship happening at Twitter, and though he's trying to weed it out, he is being met with resistance within his own company." . . .

Free speech like this: New Study Finds Bizarre Connection Between Being Liberal And Having Giant, Googly Eyes | Babylon Bee


'. . ."I honestly screamed when I flipped over the first picture and saw Hillary's psycho eyes," said assistant Jamie Reynolds. "I flipped to the next picture and screamed again — it looked like Schiff's eyes were bulging off the page. Next was the AOC picture, which I still can't believe is real. We had obviously found something.' "

Carlson added: "If you're looking for the leader of the coup, there he is right there."

 


"In his Tuesday night monologue on Twitter, Tucker Carlson exposed how the war for democracy in Ukraine is actually unraveling democracy in the process. 
“We are currently fighting a war for democracy on behalf of a leader who just casually announced he's happy to end democracy and our democracy and supporting leaders have no problem with that,” he said, “in fact, they're strongly for it.” 
"Carlson was referring to President Zelensky’s response to a reporter wondering if elections will be held next year. 
“ 'If we win, there will be an election next year,” the Ukrainian leader said. “Elections should be held in peacetime when there is no war…”
 “ 'That's not just any autocrat, that's our chief ally in the war for democracy,” Carlson pointed out, adding that President Biden just reaffirmed America’s commitment to supporting Ukraine’s “defense and its sovereignty and its territorial integrity.” 
 "You should have seen this coming," Carlson said. "Wars for democracy always cancel democracy in the process - that's why our leaders love them and they all do it - even The Virtuous leaders Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, the British government under Winston Churchill threw an entire opposition party into prison and let them rot for the duration - in some cases with their families. ". . .
Wait for it...

“We don't know obviously this is all just guessing but we do know whoever that is will have to have two essential criteria: he'll have to be as shallow, ruthless, and transactional as Joe Biden is, and he'll need to have flattery skills that are so polished and advanced they'd be considered superior even in the Saudi Royal Court and there's only one man in modern America who fits that description: Gavin Newsom, the  governor of California and perhaps not coincidentally Joe Biden's new closest friend.”

Imploded Titanic submarine seen for first time as pieces recovered up from sea floor

 The Independent | Latest news and features from US, UK and worldwide   

"Debris from the Titan was brought ashore by deep-sea robots on Wednesday as the US Coast Guard continues recovery operations following the sub’s catastrophic implosion.

"The Titan’s wreckage was seen for the first time in pictures after the Coast Guard announced on Thursday (23 Jd on Wednesday that its team had successfully completed off-shore operations and was now in the process of demobilization after ten days of work. The company said a press conference will be held later today.

"The photos shared by the Associated Press showed what appeared to be several pieces covered with white tarps being unloaded from the American ships Sycamore and Horizon Arctic at a port in St John’s, Newfoundland." . . .

The human suffering in our cities is a symptom of deep cultural rot. Here's how I plan to fix it

 Vivek Ramaswamy  

I don’t believe it has to be this way. After traveling the country and speaking with voters, I am more convinced than ever that we don’t have to be a nation in decline. But first, we have to make that choice — a choice to be better, to do better. And it starts with better policies.

"We frequently evoke the ideals of American excellence and exceptionalism. But earlier this week when I visited Kensington, Pennsylvania, what I saw was a third-world reality within our own country. Those needle-ridden streets are the direct consequence of a porous southern border and disastrous domestic policies that pay people to do the opposite of what we want them to do.

We get the leaders we deserve. Such as these.
"What I witnessed revealed to me the profound reality of the double consciousness that permeates our nation — the stark contrast between the grand ideals we champion versus the harsh realities faced by those dwelling in the depths of despair in Kensington. Regrettably, a Kensington can be found in nearly every corner of America.

"If we are only as strong as our weakest link, then Kensington is an unsettling portrait of an America in decline, embodying the antithesis of progress and optimism. This was not a representation of America first; it was a distressing manifestation of what happens when we enact bad policies that put America last.". . .

Why a Secular Jew, Andrew Klavan, Became a Christian

 

Rabbi Michael Barclay


. . ."Klavan got baptized at the age of fifty. This frightened him given his nominal Jewish background,

One of my biggest fears confronting baptism—took me five months to work through it—was I didn’t want anyone to think I was turning my back on Jews, trying to escape my Jewish identity. The default mode with some Jews is to assume you’re trying to “pass as gentile” or blend in or that you hate your Jewishness and are joining the enemy. All understandable, because the Jews are the most mistreated group of people on the face of the planet and some of that trouble has come out of Christian sources, which stinks. Oddly, though, accepting Jesus made me feel more Jewish than I ever had, religiously at least. I had no connection to the Old Testament particularly, until I accepted the New.”

"Today Klavan is an outspoken Christian and has since authored a book called The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ (2016)."

Biden Becomes Enraged, Screams In The Face Of Reporters Over Hunter Biden Evidence (Video)


'I remember the fingers': Former neighbor of Biden sexual assault accuser corroborates allegation


  Washington Examiner   "A former neighbor of the woman who accused former Vice President Joe Biden of sexual assault publicly vouched for the accuracy of the allegation.

"Tara Reade recently came forward to allege Biden, when she worked for him as a Senate staff assistant in 1993, pushed her up against the wall and penetrated her with his fingers. Biden's presidential campaign has vehemently denied the allegation.

"In the time since Reade came out with her allegation, her brother and an unnamed friend have backed up her story, saying they were told either about the assault or harassment at the time.

"A former neighbor of Reade's from the 1990s, Lynda LaCasse, corroborated Reade's version of events to Business Insider on Monday.

" 'I remember her saying, here was this person that she was working for, and she idolized him," LaCasse said. "And he kind of put her up against a wall. And he put his hand up her skirt, and he put his fingers inside her. She felt like she was assaulted, and she really didn't feel there was anything she could do."

" 'She was upset. And the more she talked about it, the more she started crying. I remember saying that she needed to file a police report," LaCasse said, before acknowledging that she doesn't "remember all the details," but does "remember the skirt. I remember the fingers."

"LaCasse, a former medical staff coordinator and emergency room clerk, and Reade lived next to one another in 1995 and 1996 in an apartment complex near the beach in Morro Bay, California. LaCasse said Reade confided in her because they had a close connection as they were both mothers and their young daughters would swim in the complex's pool together.

" 'She didn't ask me to [come forward]," LaCasse said. "I volunteered to do that just recently. If this was me, I would want somebody to stand up for me. It takes a lot of guts to do what she's doing.' " . . .

We’ve reached peak racial Stockholm Syndrome

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VIDEO: We’ve reached peak racial Stockholm Syndrome - American Thinker  "Stockholm Syndrome describes a captive who has formed a psychological bond with his captors. That term describes perfectly a white man, somewhere in America, who began weeping at the thought that his call to the police about a black man brandishing a weapon and threatening to kill him resulted in the black man’s arrest.

One thing that was clearly on display during the BLM riots in 2020 was that the people most fervently committed to BLM activism were white, especially white women. However, there were some very hysterical white men on the front lines as well, joining their emotional compatriots in screaming at the police. Watching the video below, one must wonder what this particular white man was doing in June 2020:

. . ."What this blinkered leftist didn’t realize is that the man who was arrested, had he not been arrested, might have gone on to do something horrible, such as murdering or raping someone. After all, both the Talmud and Adam Smith recognized that you must take a stand against evil lest it metastasize. According to the Talmud, “If you are kind to the cruel, you will end up being cruel to the kind.” Adam Smith said much the same: “Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”. . .       (Emphasis mine, TD. Wanted to be sure you saw this.)

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Find Out Why The Worst American President Ever Was So Loved

 




Obama Rings the Reparations Bell - American Thinker  . . ."Dalrymple goes on to write that "the whole idea of protected groups — is a retrogression from the Enlightenment idea of treating people as equal under the law." But Obama, tried and true Marxist that he is, will never stop pandering as long as it results in a rift in the nation that he so abhors.  As Ray DiLorenzo asserts, Barack Obama, George Soros and Joe Biden "fly our flag while with beamed expression do[ing] their diligence to destroy everything [America] stands for.' "


Biden And 2024

enVolve . . ."The assault on reliable energy is another instance in point. The current presidential administration of Joe Biden has commenced a war against fossil fuels and the internal combustion engine.

"All people in the nation that rely on a politically unimpeded private marketplace are victims of that war, begun, so we are told, to save the world from environment collapse. The disastrous measures taken by Biden to reduce environmental damage will have little effect in saving the nation from minimal environmental degradation. Nevertheless, Biden has… done what? He has curtailed the production of fossil fuel supplies, thus driving up the price of energy that will be paid in inflationary dollars. His chief replacement mechanism is turbine run wind power, an unreliable energy source the components of which are made in China, a country unfriendly to the United States but very friendly – so U.S. House Republicans tell us – with several members of the Biden family.

"In addition to Biden’s war on the internal combustion engine, the president has also opened a front against gas stoves. This political sortie hits very close to home, and it will further cause restaurants, heavily impacted by a government shutdown of businesses during the late politically caused COVID pandemic, to fire their staffs and shut their doors. All of this graphically demonstrates that neo-progressives who in recent years have overrun state and national governments have a primitive and fantastical understanding of the U.S. economy." . . .

Pride goeth before a fall.. .and a Spring, and a Summer annnnd a winter

 Rachel Levine: Not just 'pride month,' but 'summer of pride' - American Thinker   "From the "Give 'em an inch" Department.  Obsession with cross-dressers and other alphabet people is too important to confine to a mere single month, apparently.  First a month, then a season. What's next?  Will we soon be asked to celebrate some people's sexuality constantly?  Is there no limit to self-obsession?  

'Pride' Month Is Way Too Long (thefederalist.com)

. . ."And “sexual identity” isn’t even accurate anymore. “Pride” is now a catch-all term for perversions, fetishes, kinks, lack of personal hygiene, gaudy fashion, piercings, and on and on. Gay pride is nearly a hate crime against transgenders and “queers” these days. It’s they/them/their blobby body shapes that dominate “pride” now.  "The overexposure is literal. “Pride” events in major cities this past weekend featured men and women walking and biking publicly in the nude. Photos posted on social media showed that children were present. Happy pride.". . .

"Rachel Levine, President Biden’s haggard assistant secretary of Health and Human Services, said Monday, “Let’s declare it a summer of pride.” They had better not."


Joe Biden, President Non Compos Mentis; The nation has no commander.

The American Spectator | USA News and Politics   "If Joe Biden’s mental incapacity weren’t so serious, it would be hilarious.

"When the political satire show Veep starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus was making its run on HBO, I enjoyed the few episodes I did watch — but I never really could get into it. I couldn’t help but be depressed at the idea that the people in charge of this great nation were venal, stupid clowns like those on the show.

"Veep is funny if you know it isn’t reflective of reality. But even back when the show was making its run, it was too close to the truth.

"And now? It isn’t funny at all.

"Because all the worst reflections of America’s power elite that show presented are wide open for anyone to see, in real life. And it turns out it’s worse than you ever could have thought.

"At least the scheming clowns in Veep were sentient. That can’t be said for what runs the country in real life.

"Exactly what in the hell is this?" . . .

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