Libertarian roasts Trump White House’s plan to get ‘conservative snowflakes’ unbanned from social media
The Trump White House this week unveiled a new initiative that will allow right-wingers to report when they feel they’ve been banned from social media on specious grounds.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown, a writer for the libertarian magazine Reason, has written an essay that brutally ridicules conservatives for whining about being “censored” by social media companies — and she compares them to the overly sensitive college students that right-wingers regularly deride as “snowflakes.”
“It’s tempting to merely laugh at this sort of absurdity, to gawk at the blubbering fools who spent years ranting about easily-triggered liberal ‘snowflakes’ only to literally make it a federal matter when their Facebook account gets suspended,” she writes. “And sure, the self-owning MAGAservative chorus of ‘No one liked my tweet, I must be shadowbanned!’ is a special delicacy.”
Brown goes on to point out, however, that there are some very serious ramifications for free speech in the United States if these efforts are successful.
“Right now, too many Republicans want us to think it’s a First Amendment violation for a private company to dictate the terms of service on a private platform it owns, but not for the federal government to dictate what individuals can and cannot say on those platforms or to punish private companies that don’t conform to some Congress-created speech code,” she writes. “I know it’s clichéd and melodramatic to make 1984 references, but this is some really serious doublethink.”
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Historians demolish John Yoo for claim Founding Fathers wouldn’t want Trump impeached in an election year
Comments made by attorney and law professor John Yoo on Fox News on the Founding Father's intentions about impeachment received a brutal debunking by two historians -- including one of his colleagues at UC Berkeley.
Appearing with Fox News personality Laura Ingraham, lawyer Yoo -- who is infamous for providing President George W. Bush's administration with legal justifications for the torture of prisoners of war -- claimed that the Founding Fathers would object to the president being impeached in an election year.
According to Yoo, Democrats are getting it all wrong when they say the Constitution compels them to hold impeachment proceedings against Trump just one year before the election.
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McConnell drops a surprise on Trump — calls for an even stronger resolution to rebuke him
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) indicated he opposes the bill out of the House to denounce President Donald Trump's military withdrawal in Syria because it isn't tough enough, reported Bloomberg's Steven Dennis.
https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/1184840222846148608
"My first preference is for something stronger than the House resolution," McConnell said according to Bloomberg's Laura Litvan.
She went on to say that McConnel wants a bill that outlines what action should take place in Syria.
McConnell said the House version was "curiously silent on the issue of whether to actually to sustain a U.S. military presence in Syria."
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Mad dog Trump and his Bible-thumping kennel pals: White House theocrats may be the biggest danger of all
“I have done nothing to harm these people but they are angered with me, so what do they do, doctor up some income tax, for which they have no case… to harass a peaceful man.”
You could be excused for thinking that Donald Trump spoke these words of self-pity. In fact, they’re from Robert de Niro, playing that other gangster, Al Capone, in the 1987 movie The Untouchables, written by David Mamet.
Like Trump, a would-be dictator madly claiming the overwhelming support of the populace, the real-life Capone insisted that his criminal acts satisfied “a public demand.” He declared, “I am just a businessman, giving the people what they want.” And a certain percentage of the civilian population—Capone’s “base,” if you will—thought he was just swell.
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Historians demolish John Yoo for claim Founding Fathers wouldn’t want Trump impeached in an election year
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Pelosi asks America to pray for Trump’s health after president suffers a ‘very serious meltdown’
White House spokesman accuses Pelosi of having ‘multiple’ meltdowns: ‘She has completely lost control’
Mad dog Trump and his Bible-thumping kennel pals: White House theocrats may be the biggest danger of all
Historians demolish John Yoo for claim Founding Fathers wouldn’t want Trump impeached in an election year
White House spokesman accuses Pelosi of having ‘multiple’ meltdowns: ‘She has completely lost control’
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