Without even checking Twitter, I’d bet real money that the right wing (or, as I referred to it a couple of years ago on these boards, the white wing) are already freaking out and accusing Twitter of suspending her for “telling the truth about the Clintons” and not for her lies about COVID-19.
Am I right?
On a lighter note, a man has been arrested for putting anti-Biden stickers on gas pumps.
Perhaps he’ll join Dr. Oz’s staff as an advertising consultant.
In a sense, he is 100% honest – the things he says are 100% aligned with whatever he’s thinking at the moment. Some people equate unfiltered “speaking your mind” with “honesty.”
“Freedom of speech” protests in three… two… one…
It’s a sticky subject? Dammit, I got nothin’.
He just got carried away with making his ad here.
So far all I’m seeing is that she’s being censored in a violation of her free speech rights.
Playwright David Mamet went on Fox to claim that teachers, especially male teachers, are pedophiles. His mother was a teacher. He teaches drama at NYU.
Here’s the article about that:
Sounds like Mamet just wants attention.
However, I had a high school teacher who admitted that when you’re surrounded by teen-agers all day, you tend to fixate on that age group. At the remove of so many years it sounds like excuse-making to me.
Someone should ask him why he would have to win the lottery before he could consider running for President.
Why is it that in many other democracies people of moderate income can run for national elective offices, while in the supposed “land of the free” you have to be a millionaire even to consider it? Maybe corporate greed is a bit of a problem in the US after all?
The insane amount of money required to run for office is the reason that I have never given a dime to any politician’s campaign. It’s the same thing as the reason why I vote- it’s the thing that I, personally, can do.
That, and the fact that if you do give even one thin dime your name goes on a list that gets sold and propagated to the ends of the known universe and you get contacted by every candidate/party/PAC in existence asking for more MORE MORE!
There were times when I wanted to contribute! But I thought: No, all you’d be doing is perpetuating the madness. It’s the politicians who can change the way election campaigns are funded. Politicians: Fix that shit!
Is there something he wants to get off his chest – or anywhere else?
you are only encouraging them
The problem of course is that in order for the politicians to “fix that shit” they have to be elected, and until that shit gets fixed, getting elected takes tons of money. So there is a bit of a catch 22, and not contributing to candidates who might try and fix it, is as useful as fighting against voter disenfranchisement by not voting.
Also back in 2001, the politicians did actually take a good shot in the direction of fixing that shit, but unfortunately the supreme court decided that bribery by plutocrats was a first amendment right, so changing the one dollar one vote system might take an amendment.
We will just have to disagree about that.
Good points.
And it doesn’t help that we currently have an FBI head who’s expressed an ‘anything goes’ philosophy about incendiary speech, either.