@actingliketommy Absolutely. Can't tell you how many times I was dragged into a store, plied with alcohol and was forced to buy stuff against my will. I can never wash that dirty feeling off me.
@LillianVikingDK I am sure you fully support the same standard being applied to you. If someone - anyone - accuses you of something, we all can reasonably assume you are guilty, with enough confidence to publicly state this. That work for you?
Power selects for a specific personality type, and it is not yours.
F.A. Hayek spelled this out in 1944. In a centrally planned system, the people who rise are not the most competent or the most honest. They are the most willing to exercise force against strangers, the most comfortable with contradiction, and the most skilled at coalition-building through favors rather than merit. Government filters for the bad ones from the start.
The mechanism is straightforward. Political power means controlling resources you did not earn. Capturing that control requires outcompeting rivals who have no ethical constraints. A principled candidate refuses to promise contradictory things to different voter blocs. An unprincipled one does it without blinking. The unprincipled one wins. Repeat this selection pressure across hundreds of electoral cycles and you get the U.S. Congress in 2026: a body where the average member has held office for over a decade, raised millions from interested parties, and delivered almost nothing measurable to the people who voted for them.
Bureaucracy compounds the problem. Once entrenched, state agencies attract people who want authority without accountability. You cannot fire most of them. The FDA, the TSA, the Federal Reserve all function this way, staffed by individuals whose career advancement depends on expanding the agency's reach, never on serving you efficiently.
BREAKING: Statement From Sean Davis, CEO and Co-Founder of The Federalist:
Corrupt cop Jack Smith spied on The Federalist and accessed our communications during his lawless anti-Trump witch hunt. We are still working to determine which of our reporters were targeted by Jack Smith and which journalistic communications he and his thugs seized.
The latest facts about Jack Smith’s illegal jihad were released by Sen. Charles Grassley during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Tuesday.
The Federalist’s team of investigative reporters exposed the Russian collusion hoax. We exposed the Kavanaugh hoax. We exposed the Ukraine impeachment hoax. And The Federalist’s Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway wrote the definitive account of how Democrats seized control of election infrastructure and destroyed the integrity of American elections in 2020.
For over a decade, The Federalist has fearlessly exposed Deep State corruption and DOJ lies and lawfare. Spying on us was apparently part of Jack Smith’s plot to get revenge against us.
The First Amendment is the bedrock of the American Constitution. A free press is integral to the American republic and our entire way of life. And Jack Smith fed the whole thing through a shredder in his insane and illegal attempt to rig the 2024 elections through lawfare, intimidation, and unconstitutional attacks on free speech and the First Amendment.
As shocking as this news may be to some, I am not surprised to learn of this behavior by Jack Smith and the Biden administration. At the direction of the Biden administration, the federal government illegally censored The Federalist, tried to bankrupt us, and was eventually forced to admit it had zero legal authority to do any of it.
We took these thugs to court and won when we learned of their illegal censorship efforts, and we will explore all legal options going forward to deal with Jack Smith’s lawless and un-American attempts to silence us by spying on us.
Nobody in corporate media said a word in our defense when we were illegally censored. Outlets like CNN and the New York Times, which posture as First Amendment purists, had nothing to say about the Biden administration’s illegal attempts to punish us for our rigorous and accurate journalism.
I have zero doubt that they will be similarly silent today, because they are partisan hacks who supported Jack Smith’s egregious lawfare every step of the way.
Unlike corrupt corporate media, The Federalist will always fearlessly and accurately report the news, even in the face of never-ending Democrat assaults on the First Amendment, free speech, and freedom of the press.
We will never back down, and we will never stop reporting the facts and defending the greatest nation and greatest people on earth. Hillary Clinton couldn’t stop us, Joe Biden couldn’t stop us, and Jack Smith’s corrupt thuggery won’t stop us.
@MADMAXMOVIES1 If the intent was genocide, why are there Palestinians freely living and working in Israel? It would be a simple matter to round them up and get rid of them but that hasn't happened. Why?
@JCCNova@MAGACult2 The only way to force a politician to manage $$ better is to pass a law making them ineligible for reelection if they don’t achieve a balanced budget, lower inflation, or similar economic targets.
@cafreiman Would you agree that it is obviously wrong for someone to move to a place that has different customs and social norms than you, and expect that everyone else should change their way of living so they can continue to live as they have?
They want a White House badge after this record.
What CNN, MS NOW, and Politico pushed that was a lie:
1. Benghazi was a protest over a YouTube video. There was no protest. It was a planned terrorist attack.
2. Nobody told the team to stand down. We were told to stand down. Not wait. Stand down. Two men are dead because of that delay.
3. Jussie Smollett got beaten by MAGA attackers in Chicago. He paid two men he knew to stage it.
4. Hunter Biden’s laptop (Got me removed from twitter) was Russian disinformation. It was his laptop. The FBI authenticated it.
5. The COVID lab leak was a conspiracy / Trump talking point. It was a live origin theory. The FBI later called it likely.
6. The 2020 riots were “mostly peaceful.” Cities burned. People died. That was not a vigil.
7. Officer Sicknick was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher on January 6. The medical examiner said strokes. No blunt-force trauma.
8. An ICE doctor was a “uterus collector” doing mass forced hysterectomies. A judge called that verifiably false. They settled the lawsuit.
9. A Navy vet running Afghanistan extractions was a black-market profiteer. A jury found CNN defamed him and awarded $5 million.
10. Covington Catholic kids in MAGA hats started a racist mob. Full video showed otherwise. CNN settled with Nick Sandmann.
11. Trump called neo-Nazis “very fine people.” He said he was not talking about neo-Nazis and white nationalists and they should be condemned totally. They cut the next sentence and ran the smear for years.
12. Trump told Americans to inject bleach. He asked if UV light or disinfectant that kills the virus on surfaces should be studied. He did not write a Lysol prescription.
13. Trump promised a “bloodbath” meaning civil war. The line sat inside a tariff speech about Chinese cars and the U.S. auto industry. They stripped the context and sold the word.
A right is not a press pass. A press pass is a privilege.
Where was this free-speech act when Americans were getting throttled on Twitter, Facebook, and Google?
In 2020 the FBI spent months warning platforms about a coming “hack and leak.” Twitter blocked the laptop story. Facebook buried it.
In 2021 the Biden White House pressed Facebook for months to police COVID posts, including jokes. Zuckerberg later said both were wrong. These same outlets ignored it. Some helped sell the laptop as Russian disinfo. They did not treat that as a First Amendment emergency.
But Losing the badge did!
News is supposed to be as accurate as it can be. When it pushes lies and a narrative instead of facts, it should lose credibility and it should lose airtime. Period!
This is a short list off an extremely long one. That is the point. They do not care about the truth and they do not care what it does to this country. They care about views, clicks, and likes.
That is not journalism, it is the problem and it is one of the biggest problems America has.
@SamAdamsLogger@seanmdav Which is pretty ironic, considering they do not allow any points of view which are different than the official party talking points.
@KJSchilling94 Why would anyone support giving more of their money to the most corrupt, greedy, grasping, inefficient, sclerotic organization on the planet?