In the wake of Charlie's assassination, many people are demanding that we redouble our devotion to the "free marketplace of ideas." The call seems at first glance courageous and noble. In reality, it is reckless and impractical. We had an open marketplace of ideas; the Left shot it up.
Not only have extreme leftists committed violence in the marketplace of ideas; more scandalous still, mainstream left-wing voices have cheered and made light of the violence. There can be no open marketplace—of ideas or anything else—under such conditions.
Marketplaces require rules, confidence, and common media of exchange. They require, in other words, order. Liberty requires order. One cannot be both free and undisciplined, for instance, or free and ignorant. We know this philosophically, and we also know it intuitively. It's why we don't let toddlers vote.
What we require now is the reassertion of order. We must insist upon the acceptance of basic truths and moral goods, not as the asymptotic goal of endless debate but as the axiomatic foundation without which debate cannot occur. We must foreclose certain antisocial behaviors and suicidal ideologies. We must, to borrow a phrase from Chesterton, stop "the thought that stops thought."
In practical terms, this means we must stigmatize certain evil ideas and behaviors, and we must ostracize people who insist upon them. More practically, this means that people who persist in such disorder should lose their social standing. In certain cases, they should lose their jobs. There must be consequences.
With any political reform, it is wise to err on the side of caution. The offenses that merit such ostracism should be particularly egregious. A good place to begin would be with those who celebrate the murder of an innocent man.
The Democrat Party at every level — judges, politicians, academics, nonprofits — is organized around the defense and protection of the criminal, the monstrous and the depraved. The more vile the threat, the more vociferously the Democrat Party works to protect and enable it.
Newsom tells Pacific Palisades property owners: "You can't rebuild the same. We have to rebuild with science. We have to build with climate reality in mind."
If there was ever any doubt as to who bears responsibility for the COVID pandemic, Biden’s pardon of Fauci forever seals the deal.
As Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee I will not rest until the entire truth of the coverup is exposed.
Fauci’s pardon will only serve as an accelerant to pierce the veil of deception.
Ignominious! Anthony Fauci will go down in history as the first government scientist to be preemptively pardoned for a crime.
🇺🇸 TEAMSTERS PRESIDENT SEAN O’BRIEN: KAMALA SAID SHE’D WIN WITH OR WITHOUT US
"RFK answered all 16 of our questions, even if we didn’t like the answers.
Trump answered all 16.
Biden only answered five before dropping out.
Kamala? She only answered three, and her staff cut the Q&A 20 minutes early.
On her way out, she declared, 'I’m going to win with you or without you.'"
Source: @TCNetwork
In a huge win for Argentina's populist leader Javier Milei, the country has already beaten the recession triggered by his cuts to government spending, and is now growing at a dramatic 3.9% pace. The country stock market, meanwhile, is up 174% this year. Monthly inflation has dropped from 25% to less than 3%.
First El Salvador, now Argentina: Brave right-wing leaders are doing the stuff elite progressives say you "can't" do, and are immediately and dramatically improving their countries.
Next up, America.
WOW 🚨 USPS has seen a 80% DECREASE in volume of mail but ADDED 190,000 employees
Senator Rand Paul “Can you think of a private business where 80% of what they're, you know, doing to make money is going down in volume that would actually increase their employees?”
“You've insourced 190,000 jobs, and it's just sort of inexplicable”
If @Kash_Patel is confirmed as FBI Director, it could change EVERYTHING. He told me after reading the entire 9/11 report: “Overnight, that NEEDS to come out…and there will be some people that are PISSED OFF.”
He's also seen the entire JFK file: "The things that we can't release have NOTHING to do with the questions you guys are asking... "
Normal football coach: let’s go out there and play hard, encourage each other, and have some fun
Dan Lanning: attack them with the mindset of Lieutenant Aldo Raine in Inglorious Bastards