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Every House Democrat - including the Squad -voted to push the US deeper into the Russia-Ukraine war. The 57 Republicans who opposed included some of the most conservative members @medeabenjamin is right. What the hell happened to the antiwar left? https://t.co/gGJczLlEWQ — Jack Hunter (@jackhunter74) May 11, 2022
Every House Democrat - including the Squad -voted to push the US deeper into the Russia-Ukraine war. The 57 Republicans who opposed included some of the most conservative members
From my latest at BASEDPolitics, “On Monday, a New York Times headline blared ‘Biden Speeds Up Military Aid to Ukraine, Drawing U.S. Deeper Into War.’
The Times reported (emphasis added), ‘When President Biden signed a modern-day Lend-Lease Act on Monday, 81 years after the original version helped lead the way into World War II, he effectively thrust the United States even deeper into another war in Europe that has increasingly become an epic struggle with Russia despite his efforts to define its limits.’
‘Recent days have underscored just how engaged the United States has become in the conflict in Ukraine,’ the report noted.
Engaged indeed.
On Tuesday, the House voted to give Biden his spending package. Every single Democrat – including the Squad – voted for it.
57 Republicans voted against it.”
Read the entire column.
If you're not a free speech absolutist you're not the good guy. I don't know how else to put it.@jackhunter74 for BASEDPolitics:https://t.co/cmML7g8cps — Hannah Cox (@HannahDCox) May 2, 2022
If you're not a free speech absolutist you're not the good guy. I don't know how else to put it.@jackhunter74 for BASEDPolitics:https://t.co/cmML7g8cps
From my latest at BASEDPolitics, “Seemingly overnight, the old consensus about free speech as an American ideal was now being painted as a partisan cause that Musk and others were somehow misguidedly obsessed with.
Canadian conservative politician Andrew Scheer said that the corporate media was beginning to portray free speech as a ‘right wing value.’
He isn’t wrong. You don’t have to search far at the moment to see the establishment media taking its cue from the Democratic Party, telling us that free expression in America is now more of an oddity than an inalienable right.”
Just like his father before him, @RandPaul is getting a lot of hate for pointing out the obvious foreign policy decisions that led up to Ukraine/Russia. When will people learn to listen to them? If we did we'd see a lot fewer wars.@jackhunter74: https://t.co/3cJR8qBxH8 — Hannah Cox (@HannahDCox) April 27, 2022
Just like his father before him, @RandPaul is getting a lot of hate for pointing out the obvious foreign policy decisions that led up to Ukraine/Russia. When will people learn to listen to them? If we did we'd see a lot fewer wars.@jackhunter74: https://t.co/3cJR8qBxH8
From my latest at BASEDPolitics, “When Sen. Rand Paul questioned Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday, Left and neocon Twitter erupted in outrage accusing Paul of using Putin’s talking points and siding with Russia.
Why? Because in an over ten minute exchange with Blinken, in which Paul drove home that Ukraine’s desire to join NATO was a factor in the current conflict (something even Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky admits), Paul also noted that Georgia and Ukraine were former parts of the Soviet Union.
Twitter went mad. You would have thought Paul had joined the Russian army. In spite of Paul repeatedly noting that Russia had no moral justification in invading Ukraine, leftists and neocons made it sound like Paul was driving a Russian tank across Ukraine’s border.
This is what happened to his dad too.”
Many on the Left and Right have wanted to repeal Section 230 and have government regulation of social media for varying reasons. Many will want government intervention now more than ever. @elonmusk instead gave us a libertarian solution. Thanks! https://t.co/SFzMkuUBWR — Jack Hunter (@jackhunter74) April 25, 2022
Many on the Left and Right have wanted to repeal Section 230 and have government regulation of social media for varying reasons. Many will want government intervention now more than ever.
From my latest at BASEDPolitics, “The richest man in the world bought Twitter and has vowed to restore free speech to this private platform. If he fails to live up to this promise, we will face the same dilemma as before where private platforms that still operate as vast public squares are controlled by a censorious few.
So what do we have to lose?
We don’t want the Biden administration or a possible second Trump administration regulating our speech. Last week, President Barack Obama said that the federal government must begin “regulating” private social media companies.
NOPE.
"Free speech for all is the goal. If the government won’t protect it, hopefully the market will." Three cheers for our hot new Twitter daddy!@jackhunter74: https://t.co/SB0G2tpFV2 — Hannah Cox (@HannahDCox) April 25, 2022
"Free speech for all is the goal. If the government won’t protect it, hopefully the market will."
Obama is wrong to want to get the government involved. Those who wanted to repeal Section 230 were wrong for the same reason. Twitter’s old owners were wrong to censor in the first place.
And Elon Musk might end up being wrong at some point too, but given his stated free speech goal and every other factor involved, we’ll take our chances on the guy who just used the ultimate libertarian solution to save Twitter.”
Obama made it clear in his speech this week that Democrats were going all in on suppressing speech. This new center-left consensus on the need to censor basic political speech is one of the most disturbing developments of our time. https://t.co/Ka8H4StpGc — Jack Hunter (@jackhunter74) April 24, 2022
Obama made it clear in his speech this week that Democrats were going all in on suppressing speech.
From my latest at BASEDPolitics,” The government must regulate speech platforms to keep us ‘safe,’ Obama claimed.
'In a democracy, we can rightly expect companies to subject the design of their products and services to some level of scrutiny,’ the former president said. ‘At minimum, they should have to share that information with researchers and regulators who are charged with keeping the rest of us safe.’
Obama made the distinction between public and private companies when it comes to censorship as a key component of this debate. But what he didn’t confront is the glaring trend of the average Democratic voters agreeing with him about the need to censor ‘disinformation’ on the internet. Obama ignored that much of what has been called disinformation in recent times included legit news and basic political expression.
Everyone is for free speech in theory, including believing that open and robust expression is key to any functioning democracy, as Obama noted. But if the Hunter Biden laptop story can be categorized as ‘disinformation,’ and it clearly was. If the theory that COVID-19 might have originated in a Chinese lab can be called disinformation, and it was. If what Joe Rogan or Dave Chappelle say can be deemed false by left-leaning regulators at Twitter or in government…
How would that not be suppression of democratic free and open speech of the most basic kind?”
“Neocons seem to be the most beloved and admired and influential people within, not just the Democratic Party, but also American liberalism… they were their arch enemies ten to fifteen years ago.” @ggreenwald https://t.co/miLkTwYXv7 — Jack Hunter (@jackhunter74) April 14, 2022
“Neocons seem to be the most beloved and admired and influential people within, not just the Democratic Party, but also American liberalism… they were their arch enemies ten to fifteen years ago.” @ggreenwald https://t.co/miLkTwYXv7
The FBI is ramping up Social Media Surveillance- What could possibly go wrong? @JackHunter74 writes: https://t.co/4wpwl9X2hE — Young Americans for Liberty (@YALiberty) April 13, 2022
The FBI is ramping up Social Media Surveillance- What could possibly go wrong? @JackHunter74 writes: https://t.co/4wpwl9X2hE
From my latest at BASEDPolitics, “The Washington Post reported this week that the FBI is spending $27 million to ramp up the agency’s surveillance of social media. The FBI claims it will only monitor information that is already available and visible to the public at large.
You see, they aren’t doing anything bad. The FBI will only be looking at stuff any of us can look at.
What could possibly go wrong?”
"The Senate passed a $1.5 trillion, 2,471-page spending package earlier this month. There is no way the politicians who signed off on this could have properly digested it. That’s how things are done in DC. @RandPaul doesn’t think it should be this way." https://t.co/WUt3UW0n4E — Jack Hunter (@jackhunter74) March 29, 2022
"The Senate passed a $1.5 trillion, 2,471-page spending package earlier this month. There is no way the politicians who signed off on this could have properly digested it. That’s how things are done in DC. @RandPaul doesn’t think it should be this way." https://t.co/WUt3UW0n4E
From my latest at BASEDPolitics, “After the Senate passed a $1.5 trillion, 2,471-page spending package earlier this month, Rand Paul marveled at the fact that his colleagues could do this in ‘the middle of the night’ and ‘just hours before we were expected to vote on it.’
The answer is they couldn’t have possibly read the legislation.
Leo Tolstoy’s classic War and Peace would take almost an estimated 38 hours to read—and the novel is less than half the length of the spending package at a mere 1,296 pages.
There is no way the politicians who signed off on this thing could have properly digested it. They just voted with the herd. That’s how things are done in Washington.
Sen. Paul doesn’t think it should be this way.”
NEW @jackhunter74 : If Lindsey Graham had his way we'd be on the brink of WWIII at least a half a dozen times over the last decade. His crazy call for Putin's assassination is not new. https://t.co/PvncGyeonY — Responsible Statecraft (@RStatecraft) March 5, 2022
NEW @jackhunter74 : If Lindsey Graham had his way we'd be on the brink of WWIII at least a half a dozen times over the last decade. His crazy call for Putin's assassination is not new. https://t.co/PvncGyeonY
From my latest at Responsible Statecraft, “These lawmakers are right to denounce Graham’s reckless foreign policy rhetoric, but this is sadly nothing new for the Senator.
In 2013, Graham said the U.S’s failure to strike Syria would mean America would get nuked.
‘I believe that if we get Syria wrong, within six months — and you can quote me on this— there will be a war between Iran and Israel over their nuclear program,’ Graham told a gathering of supporters in September 2013, according to U.S. News and World Report.
‘It won’t come to America on top of a missile, it’ll come in the belly of a ship in the Charleston or New York harbor,’ he added.
Luckily, the U.S. did not get into the kind of war Graham wanted with Syria, nor have nuclear weapons yet been detonated on American soil by a foreign power.”
“Masks hurt kids,” @GlennJacobsTN insisted. “They hurt their speech development. They hurt their intellectual development, and they hurt their social and emotional development.” “And it’s time for it to stop,” Jacobs declared. https://t.co/JIZyLtsA3V — Jack Hunter (@jackhunter74) March 1, 2022
“Masks hurt kids,” @GlennJacobsTN insisted. “They hurt their speech development. They hurt their intellectual development, and they hurt their social and emotional development.” “And it’s time for it to stop,” Jacobs declared. https://t.co/JIZyLtsA3V
“Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs and Republican state representative Jason Zachary announced they are personally donating $5,000 each to fund a lawsuit filed against the county’s board of education. The purpose of the lawsuit is to end a court-enforced mask mandate in Knox County Schools…
‘Masks hurt kids,’ Jacobs insisted. ‘They hurt their speech development. They hurt their intellectual development, and they hurt their social and emotional development.’
‘And it’s time for it to stop,’ Jacobs declared.”