Censorship Industrial Complex
If you find Trump’s VP choice “weird”, it’s because you’re still paying attention to legacy media.
Opponents of Donald Trump are trying a new line of attack. For the last few years both the Democratic party and much of the legacy media have been claiming that electing Trump to a second term will somehow pose a deadly “risk to democracy”. That line of attack is on hold for now, and it’s being replaced by a new approach to smear Trump and especially his choice for VP, JD Vance.
What’s interesting in this compilation video below is that not 0nly are the interviewees engaging in this attack, but so are the interviewers!
Below the video ‘supercut’ is an article from The Daily Caller regarding this new line of attack.
SUPERCUT!
Proof the entire Democrat-Media Complex outsources their brains to DNC talking-point writers #JDVanceIsWeird pic.twitter.com/ceN2qvIPTM
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 29, 2024
From the Daily Caller News Foundation
‘Fox & Friends’ Host Brian Kilmeade Says Many Voters May Resonate With Trump, JD Vance Being ‘Weird’
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade said on Tuesday that voters may resonate with Republican nominee Donald Trump and vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance for allegedly being “weird.”
The Democrats’ new line of attack ahead of the 2024 election has been to attack Trump and Vance for being “weird.” Kilmeade said the Democrats’ label for the Trump-Vance ticket will fail among independent voters in the same way many of their previous lines of attacks have fallen apart.
“You know what wasn’t working? Saying Trump’s a threat to democracy, because no one thinks that,” Kilmeade said. “There are people who don’t like him that think that, but you’re not winning over independents, it wasn’t resonating. So you’re trying to scare people, you try to put him in court, you try to put him in jail, that didn’t work. Then you say he’s a threat to democracy, that wasn’t effective. So now you go, okay, now let’s just say they’re weird.”
“I’ve got news for you,” Kilmeade continued. “There’s a lot of people in America that go, ‘you know what? I’m a little weird, my friend’s a little weird, my parents are a little weird, so, you know, I kind of relate to somebody that’s not perfect, a little quirky.’ You cannot define Donald Trump to anybody on this planet, they already made their opinion. And for J.D. Vance, maybe this approached him, but you watched the movie, you read the book, you know about his upbringing, you watched him run for Senate, you’ve seen him in the last six years or year-and-a-half, but you watched him run for one, so I don’t know how much weird is there.”
‘Fox & Friends’ Host Brian Kilmeade Says Many Voters May Resonate With Trump, JD Vance Being ‘Weird’ pic.twitter.com/LM97Gg9ndI
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 30, 2024
Co-host Ainsley Earhardt said the Democrats’ talking point will likely not turn off candidates to Trump and Vance, while Kilmeade said every person they watched on television growing up was “special” due to their quirkiness.
“Almost everybody that we watched on television was quirky and weird, that’s what made them special,” Kilmeade added. “Right? We’re starting then. So I just think that weird is cool, actually. I don’t have any problem with weird.”
“Well, they’ll do it for two days, it’s not gonna stick,” Earhardt said.
Democrats have particularly branded Vance as a “weird” candidate by pointing to the “childless cat lady” remark he madein 2021 during an appearance on Fox News’ former show, “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” Vance mocked Democratic women, including Vice President Kamala Harris, by branding the political left as a party of anti-family values.
Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz used the new term against Vance in an interview last week, sparking Democratic politicians and liberal media pundits to repeatedly accuse the vice presidential candidate and Trump of being “weird.” Harris said during a campaign event that Vance’s commentary and viewpoints “are just plain weird,” and Democratic Illinois Rep. J.B. Pritzker repeated that terminology during a Sunday appearance on ABC News.
Featured Image Credit: Screenshot/Grabien/Fox News
Censorship Industrial Complex
G20’s Online Speech Clampdown Calls Set To Ignite Free Speech Fears
G20 leaders convened in Rio de Janeiro have called for enhanced responsibility and transparency from digital platforms to tackle the growing challenges of “misinformation,” “disinformation,” “hate speech,” and others on their long list of supposed online “harms.”
The summit’s final declaration highlighted the transformative role of digital platforms in global communication but noted the adverse effects of digital content’s rapid spread. It called for increased accountability from platforms to manage speech, which should raise eyebrows among free speech advocates who’ve heard all this before.
We obtained a copy of the declaration for you here.
During the summit, the leaders highlighted the transformative impact of digital platforms in communication and information dissemination across the globe. However, they also alleged negative ramifications of unchecked digital spaces, where “harmful” content can proliferate at an unprecedented pace and scale.
In response, the G20’s final declaration underscored the critical role of digital platforms in ensuring their ecosystems do not become breeding grounds for speech they don’t like.
The declaration states: “We recognize that digital platforms have reshaped the digital ecosystem and online interactions by amplifying information dissemination and facilitating communication within and across geographical boundaries. However, the digitization of the information realm and the accelerated evolution of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), has dramatically impacted the speed, scale, and reach of misinformation and disinformation, hate speech, and other forms of online harms.”
The G20 goes on to say that it emphasizes the “need for digital platforms’ transparency and responsibility in line with relevant policies and applicable legal frameworks and will work with platforms and relevant stakeholders in this regard.”
The declaration even says more measures need to be taken to control what it says is the spread of online misogyny and the need to combat it “online and offline.”
Censorship Industrial Complex
Tucker Carlson: Longtime source says porn sites controlled by intelligence agencies for blackmail
From LifeSiteNews
Journalist Glenn Greenwald replied with a story about how U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson changed his tune on a dime about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which allows the government to spy on American communications without a warrant. The journalist made the caveat that he is not assuming blackmail was responsible for Johnson’s behavior.
Tucker Carlson shared during an interview released Wednesday that a “longtime intel official” told him that intelligence agencies control the “big pornography sites” for blackmail purposes.
Carlson added that he thinks dating websites are controlled as well, presumably referring at least to casual “hook-up” sites like Tinder, where conversations are often explicitly sexual.
“Once you realize that, once you realize that the most embarrassing details of your personal life are known by people who want to control you, then you’re controlled,” Carlson said.
He went on to suggest that this type of blackmail may explain some of the strange, inconsistent behavior of well-known figures, “particularly” members of Congress.
“We all imagine that it’s just donors” influencing their behavior, Carlson said. “I think it’s more than donors. I’ve seen politicians turn down donors before.”
Journalist Glenn Greenwald replied with a story about how U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson changed his tune on a dime about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which allows the government to spy on American communications without a warrant. The journalist made the caveat that he is not assuming blackmail was responsible for Johnson’s behavior.
Greenwald told how he had seen Johnson grill FBI Director Christopher Wray about his agency’s spying and “could just tell that he felt passionately about (this),” prompting Greenwald to invite Johnson on his show, before anyone had any idea he might become Speaker of the House.
“One of the things we spent the most time on was (the need for) FISA reform,” Greenwald told Carlson, noting that the expiration of the current iteration of the FISA law was soon approaching. He added that Johnson was “determined” to help reform FISA and that it was in fact “his big issue,” the very reason he was on Greenwald’s show to begin with.
Johnson said regarding FISA, “We cannot allow this to be renewed; it’s a great threat to American democracy; at the very least, we need massive, fundamental reform” according to Greenwald.
Johnson became House Speaker about two months to three months later, and Greenwald was excited about the FISA reform he thought Johnson would surely help bring about.
“Not only did Mike Johnson say, ‘I’m going to allow the FISA renewal to come to the floor with no reforms.’ He himself said, ‘It is urgent that we renew FISA without reforms. This is a crucial tool for our intelligence agencies,’” Greenwald reounted.
He noted that Johnson was already getting access to classified information while in Congress, wondering at Johnson’s explanation for his behavior at the time, which was that he was made aware of highly classified information that illuminated the importance of renewing FISA and the spying capabilities it grants, as is.
Greenwald doesn’t believe one meeting is enough to change the mind of someone who is as invested in a position as Johnson was on FISA reform.
“I can see someone really dumb being affected by that … he’s a very smart guy. I don’t believe he changed his mind. So the question is, why did he?” Greenwald asked.
“I don’t know. I really don’t. But I know that the person that was on my show two months ago no longer exists.”
Theoretically, there are many ways an intelligence agency could coerce a politician or other person of influence into certain behaviors, including personal threats, threats to family, and committing outright acts of aggression against a person.
A former CIA agent has testified during an interview with Candace Owens that his former employer used the latter tactic against him and his family, indirectly through chemicals that made them sick, when he blew the whistle on certain unethical actions the CIA had committed.
“This is why you never hear about CIA whistleblowers. They have a perfected system of career destruction if you talk about anything you see that is criminal or illegal,” former CIA officer Kevin Shipp said.
As a form of coercion, sexual blackmail in particular is nothing new, although porn sites make the possibility much easier. In her book “One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein,” investigative journalist Whitney Webb discusses not only how the intelligence community uses sexual blackmail through people like Jeffrey Epstein but how it was used by organized crime before U.S. intelligence even existed.
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