Civilization's greatest threat
Last week Elon Musk bought 9% of Twitter's stock, making him the company's biggest shareholder. Twitter immediately put him on the board of directors, which effectively prevented him from launching a hostile takeover of the company. Musk was regarded as a direct threat to the elite authoritarians in charge of social media. It may turn out to be a victory for free speech.
"In an interview this week, Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk said that wokeness “wants to make comedy illegal” and gives “cruel” people a reason to be hateful.
“Generally, I think we should be aiming for, like, a positive society, and it should be okay to be humorous,” Musk said in the interview.
“Wokeness basically wants to make comedy illegal, which is not cool. I mean, [Dave] Chappelle? Like, what the f***? I mean, trying to shut down Chappelle? C’mon man. That’s crazy."
“Do we want a humorless society that is simply rife with condemnation and hate, basically?” Musk asked.
“And no forgiveness,” Dillon added.
“Yeah,” Musk nodded in agreement. “At its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It basically gives mean people a reason – it gives them a shield to be mean and cruel armoured in false virtue.”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2021/12/22/elon-musk-wokeness-is-divisive-exclusionary-and-hateful-n2600948
The Week:
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed to the Supreme Court yesterday by a Senate vote of 53-47. She won't be on the Court until Justice Breyer officially steps down this summer.
The Hunter Biden case continues to be in the news after both the New York Times and Washington Post finally admitted that the laptop story was true. It has been a year and a half since the New York Post first reported on it.
Governor Abbott unveiled a plan to bus illegal migrants to Washington DC after the Biden administration bused and flew thousands, maybe millions of unvetted illegal immigrants to American cities & towns around the country in the dead of night for over a year.
May 23: Is the day when Title 42 will no longer be enforced by Border Patrol. As if Joe Biden hasn't brought enough illegal migrants into the country, May 23 will mark the watershead moment when America really is transformed.
Significant losses: "Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that Russia had sustained "significant losses" in Ukraine, which its troops entered on Feb. 24 in what it calls a "special military operation". https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-04-07/kremlin-says-russia-has-suffered-significant-losses-in-ukraine
Ivanka Trump voluntarily testified before the January 6 select committee for eight hours on Tuesday.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tested positive for COVID-19, a day after appearing unmasked at a White House event with President Joe Biden."
https://news.yahoo.com/pelosi-positive-covid-19-white-151212216.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
What have we learned?
First, we learned what we kind of already knew. The msm buried the Hunter Biden laptop story in October of 2020 so that senile Joe Biden could win the election. Now they admit it. What I want to know is where are the 51 former "intelligence officials" who called it "Russian disinformation" at the time?
Second. We had a stormy few days over things like terms and intent. Does anyone understand the difference between showing a portion of a film and actually doctoring it? I wonder what Fox News would think of a front page story claiming they doctored a film of Obama dissing Biden?
Inspirational message of the Week:
Honorable Mention:
First is Elon Musk for standing up to and calling out an evil ideology.
Second is f ormer three-term New York Gov. George Pataki for leading a delegation to provide humanitarian relief to 200,000 Ukrainian refugees.
Pataki is a relic of the New York that was home to what once was the world's greatest city.
George this is dedicated to you and one other here:
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Will the media have to take the final step and admit that Joe Biden benefitted from Hunter Biden's deals?
Why would they do that when it's not true?
What's not true?
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You must have read my mind!
civilization's greatest threat?
maga-morons like this...
Ya! Typical maga-moron.
You do realize that is just an actor and production by the Lincoln Project right?
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The complaints about "free speech" being squelched by twitter are all bullshit. The free speech the complainers want is the freedom to lie, spread conspiracies, voice white supremacy, and bamboozle millions the way Trump did on twitter for years.
Or you know, cover actual news stories.
Just like when most of the known world thinks the Russia hoax was a hoax, the media was free to spread it for 4 years.
That is what free speech means!
What makes you think that anyone on twitter was prevented from giving their opinion on whether or not there was a "Russia hoax"? As I recall , Trump himself talked about it all the time on twitter.
Next you'll be telling us that most of the known world thinks Donald Trump is an honest man. Arguing these topics with you is insanity.
Trump was right and Twitter banned him. Or did you forget that part?
He wasnt banned for talking about some so-called Russia hoax in 2016. He was banned for lying about the 2020 election.
That's the line of BS you want be to believe? Sorry, not going to happen.
Why has Trump's Twitter account been banned? - The US Sun
Jan 09, 2021 · TWITTER has banned President Donald Trump’s account, citing “the risk of further incitement of violence” following the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol. But the US leader's fuming son, Donald Trump Jr, slammed the move, saying that "free speech no longer exists in America. It died with big tech."
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So you are going to go with what somebody told somebody that told you? I'm too old to play "Telephone".
Unfortunately, Newstalkers permits your kind of incessant nonsense.
Are you nuts?
The reason Trump was banned from twitter after Jan 6 2021 is a known quantity, not a game of "telephone". Twitter announced why he was banned and it had to do with him continuing to claim the election was fraudulent even after Jan 6th, and it had to do with him making a video on Jan 6th telling the Capitol rioters that the election had been stolen from them and they should remember this day forever. He was talking about a day of violence that injured hundreds of people.
He wasnt banned from twitter for talking about the so called Russia hoax. He had done that for years on twitter already.
The lets see the reasons TWITTER gave. Not what somebody told somebody that told you.
There must be something wrong with your brain. I posted a link to a news story, not "something that somebody told me."
Here , this is from the article i linked to
Ummm. Yes it is. Somebody told the journalist who wrote a story that you read. Nothing coming directly from the source. It's a game of Telephone.
Would that be like your "Smoking Gun" seeds we've seen here on NT?
You're describing yourself
Is that your way of saying "i'm rubber and you're glue, anything you say bounces off me and sticks to you" ? the line that 8 year olds use.
"More than a dozen states have introduced Florida-inspired legislation which would prohibit 'gender identity' discussion in school for young kids:"
https:// bit.ly/3Jj1AXy
Our next president.
Apparently there are many here that don't understand the difference. They've made themselves known in the comments of that article.
So you and Vic are going to hang your hats on the lame ass claim that the video wasnt "doctored" but merely deceptively incomplete, as if that were somehow better.
ROFL
"Second. We had a stormy few days over things like terms and intent. Does anyone understand the difference between showing a portion of a film and actually doctoring it? I wonder what Fox News would think of a front page story claiming they doctored a film of Obama dissing Biden?"
So this is where certain posters are getting their latest talking points.
EDITED/DOCTORED - SAME GODDAMNED DIFFERENCE
Reasonable people call that obvious disingenuousness.
You misspelled EDITED.
What is your point? I can go over the content of the videos again if you like.
that you don't know what you are talking about.
Then every news source that shows a clip of a film is guilty of "doctoring"
Did you watch the full length C-Span video of the event that CB posted the other day? It clearly demonstrates that the Fox version was inaccurate. In other words, I do know what I am talking about.
Were any words changed? Was anything super imposed?
So it was edited. Like many videos that appear in the news. CNN, MSNBC, Fox, ABC, CBS, NewsMax, and the rest, they all do it. But for some reason THIS on has your panties in a wad. I call that selective outrage.
I was barely even commenting on this until CB posted the full C-Span video and the dishonesty of fox news was so glaring. Joe Biden is a 79 year old man. He doesnt move around spryly anymore and sometimes his movements do look hesitant. So what? At least he hasnt tried to overthrow his own government.
And don't forget..."he stutters!"
At least he hasnt tried to overthrow his own government.
No, instead destroyed the country.
Well then, go on down to Starbucks and get yourself a cookie. Nobody cares.
He also has the cognitive ability of an Alzheimer's patient. How many times has Peppermint Patty had to get up there at a press briefing and explain away his comments? But you seem to want to ignore that. Come to think of it, there is a lot you seem to ignore.
Nice attempt (and fail) at a deflection. I was wondering how long it would be for your obligatory deflection.
The full video completely refutes the Fox News suggestion that Biden was dazed and confused. In the first instance , he wasnt lost, he was looking for someone , a specific person, and in the second instance he wasn't sheepishly hiding behind Obama, he was waiting for the opportunity to tell Obama he had someone he wanted him to meet.
The fact that you people want to keep relitigating this is bizarre.
Joe Biden is at least as mentally sharp as Trump is, and usually more coherent, and always more honest.
Then I think he should prove it by sitting down to a live interview with someone from the "opposing" side like Fox News for an unscripted interview. That would provide definitive proof that he is or is not mentally as sharp as Trump.
You mean Fox televised those portions of the film that seemed to show that Obama dissed Biden? Or that Obama was the center of attention?
I would say the former is debatable and the latter is a certainty.
As far as I'm concerned the film was not "doctored." One could show any portion of that film to allow people to draw their own conclusions. Anyone is free to go get the entire film.
Does anyone agree with any part of that?
You know there are people on this board who would gleefully eat a shit sandwich if their side told them it was filet mignon. So of course there will be people who will soundly agree with the statement.
His supposed spryness in this case doesn't counteract all the videos showing his frail confusion and memory lapses. You can't expect his supporters to admit to his unfitness for the job
I've noticed. The shit (which stinks to high Heaven) is in the form of hanging on to the nonsense about Trump's son willing to meet someone with dirt on Hillary.
I agree and I believe that Joe is MORE mentally sharp than whatshisname - I think whatshisname is suffering from tertiary syphilis.
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Yup a real genius, who thought his wife was vice president.
C-3PJOE
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NO, that would be YOU.
Nope.
Yup.
https:// bit.ly/3jmBOH3
"bad" being an understatement.
They must have only polled trumpturd/putin supporters/alleged conservatives - because all the Democrats/Liberals/Progressives do not feel at all that President Biden has been bad for America. NOT AT ALL.
They certainly didn't poll any decent people.
"How can you guys say that President Biden was not a close contact with speaker Pelosi when there's video of the speaker kissing him?" Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked Psaki on Thursday.
"Their definition of it is 15 minutes of contact within a set period of time, within six feet," Psaki responded, referring to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention definition of "close contact." "It did not meet that bar."
"New Jersey public school second graders will be getting a lesson in gender identity this fall under state sex education guidelines that will take effect in September.
According to the standards , New Jersey students should, by the end of second grade, understand the "core ideas" that all "individuals should feel welcome and included regardless of their gender, gender expression or sexual orientation."