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Biden Administration continues its efforts to silence critics
I warned you that just because Biden’s DHS threw Scary Poppins under the bus, that didn’t mean they were giving up on their dreams of creating a speech police in the guise of a “Disinformation Governance Board” to silence their critics. Thursday, we got stab #2 with the announcement that Vice President Kamala Harris is being put in charge of a new task force for “developing programs and policies” that will protect “political figures” from “disinformation,” “abuse” and “harassment.”
As Robert Spencer points out at the link, all those things are subjective and could easily fall under the heading of Constitutionally-protected free speech. You could make the argument that the main purpose of the First Amendment was to protect our God-given right to criticize politicians. It comes with the territory, and as I’ve said many times, if you can’t stand the sight of your own blood, stay out of politics.
Spencer writes, “Biden’s handlers insist, however, that nothing authoritarian is afoot here. All the new Task Force will do is target ‘online activities that are illegal conduct, such as cyber stalking or nonconsensual distribution of intimate images, or targeted harassment.’” But since those things are already illegal, why do we need a federal task force to study them? It’s like Democrats passing more anti-gun laws at the same time they’re letting all the violent criminals who use guns go free.
Their excuses sound to me like a lot of disinformation designed to cover up their true intentions: to abuse and harass their political opponents. The only upside is that with Kamala Harris now in charge, maybe the task force will wither away and die when she fails to show up, the same way border security did.
Ashley Biden's diary makes it back into the news
The diary of the President’s daughter, Ashley Biden, is back in the news, due to word that a Florida woman who found it left behind in a halfway house is under federal investigation for allegedly selling it. (And when did it become a federal offense to sell something someone else apparently threw away?) This news gave the Daily Mail an opening to print some of the disturbing contents of the diary that have long been suppressed/ignored, just like Hunter Biden’s laptop.
The Daily Mail defended itself from accusations of revealing private material by saying they only repeated parts of it that had newsworthy repercussions, such as material that Russia or China could have used as blackmail material to influence Joe Biden. They argue that like Hunter’s laptop, it’s material that shouldn’t have been suppressed because it’s a national security threat that voters had a right to know was out there before electing Biden.
I can see the merit in that argument, but I’m not going to repeat salacious material from someone else’s diary here. If you want to know what the Mail deemed worthy of coverage, the link above will show you.
Gavin Newsom joins Truth Social
California’s far-left Gov. Gavin Newsom surprised followers by joining Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform. He claims he’s doing it to call out “Republican lies,” for instance, “I know we’re all on this platform in search for the truth. But the truth is I’ve not been able to find a simple explanation for the fact that we have a red state murder problem." Newsom said, “Eight out of the top 10 states with the highest murder rates are Republican-run,” so the “question is simple. What are the laws and policies in those states that are leading to such carnage?"
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gavin-newsom-truth-social-republican-lies-red-state-murder-problem
The commenters on that Fox News story quickly did some research and discovered that the high murder rates in red states had nothing to do with the state-level Republican governance. They were concentrated in solidly Democrat-run cities inside red states, like Houston and New Orleans. Once you get out of blue cities, the murder rate plummets. The policies causing the high murder rates in those cities are the same "progressive" policies causing high murder rates in cities in blue states like California.
I’m afraid Newsom is not going to like Truth Social because on there, his disinformation will immediately be corrected by conservatives with facts, and there are no Soros minions to scurry in and censor them.